EU Summary

Summary :

The issue which concerns all the world , the most important case nowadays, is the global warming . The Europian Union reached an agreement for the most important issue since it’s foundation 50 years ago. This to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 2020 from their 1990 level.

First step , they had to reduce the carbon emissions from cars from the beginning of next year. Moreover, they had to increase the number of plants which is the key element in biofuels . Biofuels would be 10% of all petrol by 2020. By the way, there are many problems and one of them is that the renewable energy is very expensive.
The scientists confirm that the climate change will happen soon and it’s manmade, so we have to burn less fossil fuel.
This step should be done by all the countries and this is the reason of founding the EU, I mean the cooperation, because only one country cannot achieve alone.



Main idea : -


The main idea of the article is to reduce the pollution which is made by the climate changing and to put an end to the global warming, so the European Union is trying to start this project now.
The article shows some plans, steps and some problems which they are facing.


Comment : -


I think this article is very useful and contains lots of information about European Union plans to reduce the pollution and what they are planning to do in the long term.
I’m interested in this article and I want to know more about theis plans and what they did until today, and what they are thinking of , to solve this problem.

Task 5 - Carbon footprint

My individual carbon footprint is the greenhouse gas emissions that I’m personally responsible for. I did it on http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ , and these questions counted my individual carbon footprint. At the end of answering these questions , my score was 3.1 and I think it's good. Although my class avarage was 3.778.

There are three main reasons which it made me have this much footprint, which they are : -

1 - Food
2 - Home
3 - Stuff

Everyone on this world have his own footprint and he affect the atmosphere. By the way, United Arab Emirates has the highest footprint in the world.


The ways which I can reduce my footprint : -

I have to eat healthy food and it has to be less than now. Moreover, I have minimize driving cars, and trying to reach the near places walking , or for example if I want to go to somewhere and my friend is going there , I have to go with him becuase by this way , I will reduce the emission which is coming out of the car exhausted.

Reviews of " An Inconvenient Truth "

Brandon Fibbs,
http://brandonfibbs.com/2006/05/24/an-inconvenient-truth/

In a favourable review, he said that Al Gore classified alot of information about Global Warming, and it's a fact which we cannot escape from or ignore. Many facts confirm that Al Gore's review is completely right and we are at risk. Moreover, this information does not give any chance for any skeptic to say that these photographs or these facts which Al Gore classified are wrong. The presentation is not to scare the people actually, but it's to inform them about what we are facing nowadays and in the near future; these will make people think about the wrong things which they made, so they are gonna try to reduce the pollution.


Scott Nash,
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/articles/156

In a more negative review, Scott says that the presentation is about Al Gore personally and his political aspirations because he used to be the next president of United states , so he wants to support himself in the next election by this movie instead of his desire to explain what is the global warming and its consequences. For example, he made jokes about Bush. Lastly , about the pictures, he says that the good photos with ice could be taken in winter. On the other hand, the bad ones which Al Gore showed and he says this is the effects of Global warming, were taken in the summer.


What is my opinion ?

I agree with the first review because I think Al Gore sorts much information and many facts which is from the real life. Any one will know that these facts are real and we are at risk, because Al Gore didn't put the photos only or he didn't talk about his son's car accident and his sister's death from lung cancer only, but he talked about facts which were confirmed by the scientists.
Lastly, I think there are no movies without any mistakes and because of that there are some opinions which say that Al Gore did this movie for his political ambitions.

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