“Coral Reefs on Brink of Disaster, Scientists Urge Action Now”, written by ScienceDaily, is an important statement of a call for action to overcome the destruction of coral reefs, especially to decrease greenhouse gasses immediately, which can’t be delayed at all. It mentioned reduction of several actions, for instance, local action, target reduction on greenhouse gasses, atmospheric CO2, and overfishing. Global warming caused enormous harmful results; the actions should be taken by all societies and governments right now or our world will become dirty and ugly in later days and cost more for society. Although this issue has been noticed over 30 years, the commercial and marketing behaviors are still rampant. These world killers should be limited to protect our environment.
“Greenhouse gases” is a well known phrase, but how are they produced? Does it really hurt people? Many people could not understand that daily use of electricity and cars could make a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere. Using fans, air conditioners, microwaves, computers, transports and so on, is indispensable for modern citizens. However using these things would distribute CO2 and damage oceans and the atmospheric layer. Eventually, our climate will change and species die from acidic oceans and soil. The emissions of CO2 from each kind of electric equipment is not so much, so people couldn’t be aware about this effect. The total amount of CO2 created from everyone would be much more than the environment could handle. The ways to reduce the situation are less driving, enjoying natural environment, and doing things by yourself.
Using public transports or walking should substitute for driving your own car every day. People could not live without using electricity since Edison developed lights and since the expansion of technology. People could contribute their power by taking bus, trains, subways, or walking. Try to use public transport or walk three days of each week in the beginning, and every day later. The transport system may not be as convenient as driving your own cars, but the behavior could be raised and the advantages are more than driving your own cars. People will breathe fresh air, have more physical activity to maintain health, save costs of consumer goods related to driving vehicles and most importantly they will not make as much more CO2 as they would have before. In addition, don’t forget to invite a friend or family member with you as much as possible, who can support you in keeping up the healthy behaviors. Gradually, it would become habits and lifestyle. They might say that public transportation is not so convenient or has CO2 emissions, also. Nevertheless governments would build the transport system fully and the CO2 amounts would be less when many people use one car together.
Do things by yourself, and don’t depend on technology. Go back to aboriginal lives to re-experience the natural environment, like the old generation. This doesn’t mean using coal-fire or sleeping in a cave, but walking to enjoy the wind, shadow, and trees, or washing your car, or your teeth by yourself. High-technology is necessary, but some high-technology supplies may not be so essential for humans. Electric substances, for example, elevators, televisions, dynamoelectric toothbrush, motor-driven bicycles etc, have spoiled people and created lazy people. Behaviors could be converted easily, as long as the society and governments get involved. If humans can adapt themselves to good behavior to treat our oceans and coral reefs better, we will have more lovely species also.
Solutions could be carried out as people have the determination and support. If we drive less and make use of the natural environment, our beautiful coral reefs might have larger chances to be re-built and recover. You can go snorkeling with your grand children and share the experiences you had at their age.
Reference
Science Daily (2007, Oct. 22). Coral reefs on brink of disaster, scientists urge action now. ScienceDaily. Retrieved October 23, 2007, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071021225256.htm.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
How to improve the effects of global warming
The article “Global warming threatens millions of species”, written by Shaoni Bhattacharya and published in January 2004, described that species would extinct or deplete and migrate by global warming. This article mentioned that global warming caused many plants and animals to diminish, and the rate of decreasing was so quick that some species might become extinct or be doomed and move to other habitats far away from original ones for surviving. According to the statistical model, there are three kinds of predicted situations of the changing environment. If our environments deteriorate gradually without protection, we will live with a few species or none. In the end of this article, there are several resolutions to control global warming. However, we need cooperation between governments to deal with this world problem, and global warming would be controlled with efficiency and utility.
In recent years, people feel the weather has changed in the whole world, and fall comes later. The situation would be worse as population grows and high technology is developed without seeking ways out. Governments must have power, but people should value the problem seriously as well. Population growth and developed technology are consequential trends in our lives. Accordingly, education, recycling laws and improving high technology would be the key strategies to avoid terrible global warming and to save all possible species.
Because of population growth, we need to teach people what good behaviors to treat our world are. Education can let people understand the consequences of global warming and learn the correct behaviors and attitude to protect the environment. For example, people from Asia should know that chopsticks are made from trees; if they use reuable ones they would be healthier and can protect our environment also. If they use disposable chopsticks every three meals, there would be waste trash every day and they might be damaged by these disposable chopsticks. Because some chopsticks factories have to use chemical to bleach this wood in order to market them. You might eat these chemical substances through every three meals. Actually, people can take carry-on chopsticks with them. Chopsticks are not heavy at all, and not so big to carry on. Many Taiwanese have carry-on chopsticks with them, so that they can save trees and might force the companies to change their market products to reused ones. Telling the story about how the disposable objects harm our bodies and environment can correct our behaviors and attitude, and then let the behavior become a social movement.
Countries should follow the world’s rules to make environmental protective laws and force people to obey. Don’t you think that’s correct? Some countries have forced recycling laws into every family and company and had raised people into correct habits. Many people in these countries would like to sort trash. When they come to other developed counties, which don’t have recycling laws, they can not assort trashes, too, because there is only one trashcan, and they don’t know where the sorted trash can be put. Resources would be exhausted someday if we don’t treasure our resources. For convenience, people like to use disposable substances and throw things into trashcans without thinking. This kind of behavior is not good for our earth. In this event, we know that government’s power is pretty great to protect global environments. That would be the greatest way to preserve our earth and species.
High technology could make our lives easier and create resources for us, if we try to be nice with our environment or our environment might not be nice to human beings and other species. High technology leads our future lives and affects our environments greatly. Many electrical products are developed to satisfy human beings and these products might produce pollution during manufacturing procedures and when people using it, like waste gases, radiation, water and waste materials. Some high technology companies have noticed these problems, and figure out strategies to get command of pollution. For instance, computer materials could be recycled or be created as art creations, and the output energy could be used as electricity. In the higher technology times, people will explore more precious skills to recycle energy and reduce waste.
People are the criminals and species are the victims. The way to love our earth and environment is to change human beings first, not species. In other words, we should try hard to protect our environments individually, like knowing recycling ways and how to reuse disposable things that we use daily. For the upper level, governments and companies have bigger power to preserve resources and lead people to the right way, and they can make laws and produce products with environmentally protective views. As we protect our environment more, we will have natural environment and cute species with us longer.
References
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, Jan. 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. NewScientist.com. Retrieved October 16, 2007, from http:///www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=trueabout.htm.
In recent years, people feel the weather has changed in the whole world, and fall comes later. The situation would be worse as population grows and high technology is developed without seeking ways out. Governments must have power, but people should value the problem seriously as well. Population growth and developed technology are consequential trends in our lives. Accordingly, education, recycling laws and improving high technology would be the key strategies to avoid terrible global warming and to save all possible species.
Because of population growth, we need to teach people what good behaviors to treat our world are. Education can let people understand the consequences of global warming and learn the correct behaviors and attitude to protect the environment. For example, people from Asia should know that chopsticks are made from trees; if they use reuable ones they would be healthier and can protect our environment also. If they use disposable chopsticks every three meals, there would be waste trash every day and they might be damaged by these disposable chopsticks. Because some chopsticks factories have to use chemical to bleach this wood in order to market them. You might eat these chemical substances through every three meals. Actually, people can take carry-on chopsticks with them. Chopsticks are not heavy at all, and not so big to carry on. Many Taiwanese have carry-on chopsticks with them, so that they can save trees and might force the companies to change their market products to reused ones. Telling the story about how the disposable objects harm our bodies and environment can correct our behaviors and attitude, and then let the behavior become a social movement.
Countries should follow the world’s rules to make environmental protective laws and force people to obey. Don’t you think that’s correct? Some countries have forced recycling laws into every family and company and had raised people into correct habits. Many people in these countries would like to sort trash. When they come to other developed counties, which don’t have recycling laws, they can not assort trashes, too, because there is only one trashcan, and they don’t know where the sorted trash can be put. Resources would be exhausted someday if we don’t treasure our resources. For convenience, people like to use disposable substances and throw things into trashcans without thinking. This kind of behavior is not good for our earth. In this event, we know that government’s power is pretty great to protect global environments. That would be the greatest way to preserve our earth and species.
High technology could make our lives easier and create resources for us, if we try to be nice with our environment or our environment might not be nice to human beings and other species. High technology leads our future lives and affects our environments greatly. Many electrical products are developed to satisfy human beings and these products might produce pollution during manufacturing procedures and when people using it, like waste gases, radiation, water and waste materials. Some high technology companies have noticed these problems, and figure out strategies to get command of pollution. For instance, computer materials could be recycled or be created as art creations, and the output energy could be used as electricity. In the higher technology times, people will explore more precious skills to recycle energy and reduce waste.
People are the criminals and species are the victims. The way to love our earth and environment is to change human beings first, not species. In other words, we should try hard to protect our environments individually, like knowing recycling ways and how to reuse disposable things that we use daily. For the upper level, governments and companies have bigger power to preserve resources and lead people to the right way, and they can make laws and produce products with environmentally protective views. As we protect our environment more, we will have natural environment and cute species with us longer.
References
Bhattacharya, S. (2004, Jan. 07). Global warming threatens millions of species. NewScientist.com. Retrieved October 16, 2007, from http:///www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=trueabout.htm.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Health and Physical Activity
Reference
Local Government Commission. (n.d.) Health and Physical Activity. Retrieved October, 01, 2007, from http://www.lgc.org/community_desing/health.html.
The Local Government Commission, which is a nonprofit organization working to build livable communities, wrote this article. It said that residents, especially those who are under-served, are physically inactive, which might lead to many diseases. Community design should be planned to encourage or improve residents’ health, and this issue was noticed by public health professionals, who have found some evidence about these problems. As a matter of fact, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) had to wake some changes on land use and transportation patterns, but many cities still need to be improved.
However, LGC and California work together, and they found the most important factors for changing communities are ”economic development and increased sense of community” . Moreover, they give support to create walkable communities.
In these five reading reaction journals, we can find that healthy communities have become valued in recent years. They all found that land use and transportation are poorly developed and they are the reason why residents have less physical activity. In spite of that, government related departments, such as CDC, and some nonprofit institutes have gone deep into the problems and have dug out the key points to improve them. I’m glad to hear the news about public departments having action on this issue, and outreaching on this topic, because political decisions are the ultimate power to make healthy communities successful. Furthermore, this issue has become a worldwide known topic, and people perceive that they have their right to argue with urban planners to make healthy living environments.
Local Government Commission. (n.d.) Health and Physical Activity. Retrieved October, 01, 2007, from http://www.lgc.org/community_desing/health.html.
The Local Government Commission, which is a nonprofit organization working to build livable communities, wrote this article. It said that residents, especially those who are under-served, are physically inactive, which might lead to many diseases. Community design should be planned to encourage or improve residents’ health, and this issue was noticed by public health professionals, who have found some evidence about these problems. As a matter of fact, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) had to wake some changes on land use and transportation patterns, but many cities still need to be improved.
However, LGC and California work together, and they found the most important factors for changing communities are ”economic development and increased sense of community” . Moreover, they give support to create walkable communities.
In these five reading reaction journals, we can find that healthy communities have become valued in recent years. They all found that land use and transportation are poorly developed and they are the reason why residents have less physical activity. In spite of that, government related departments, such as CDC, and some nonprofit institutes have gone deep into the problems and have dug out the key points to improve them. I’m glad to hear the news about public departments having action on this issue, and outreaching on this topic, because political decisions are the ultimate power to make healthy communities successful. Furthermore, this issue has become a worldwide known topic, and people perceive that they have their right to argue with urban planners to make healthy living environments.
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