Be Green

Christopher Kim P. Sorino/Student/AE Memorial Science High School

We live in a lucky planet that can sustain life, give us home, food, and more than we could ever imagine. With this gift from the planet we can invent things or make things for our good purposes. We have vehicles to transport us anywhere we want to go, rockets and space shuttles to explore the vastness and wonders of the space, factories to produce the products we loved so much, power plants to give us electricity that powers up our appliances to do our house chores, discovering and making new medicines to prolong the life of the sick and helpless, improving the growth of crops for people not to starve like fertilizers and many more.

As technologies go by, it expands making our life better but we did not actually see the consequences behind the good life in technologies to our planet.  This consequence is a great danger to us which can affect all living things in the planet. This consequence is the Global Warming. Global warming is a phenomenon in which sudden heating of earth caused by the more greenhouse gasses. Gasses from vehicles combustion, factories and power plants like fossil power plants release CO2 which can cause the heating of the atmosphere. This phenomenon has some bad effects like melting of the glaciers and polar ice caps which raise water levels, climate change will affect the animals and also the ecosystem, unpredictable weathers and storms, slower growth of the crops because of the extreme heat which causes drought leading to a famine of a nation.

        Everyday I imagine the planet suffering from the wrong actions we have done that we did not realize or take a quick action. It is not too late for us to change, to save mother earth for the better future in our lives because I believe one small action to save mother earth is enough to influence everyone to help mother earth. We can still have our technology but we have to make it in a green way which means that it is not harmful to the environment like biofuel. Power plant that produces electricity from nature like hydroelectric power plants and wind mill which will result in reducing the burning of fossil fuel. If we do all these green actions we can definitely help minimize the global warming.