Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Task 7 - Problems & solution




Nowadays, almost all the people know about global warming but the only thing they know is that the global warming is the heating up of the earth's temperature and they don’t know about the consequences of global warming and even they don’t know about the causes of global warming.
We have to know everything about the global warming because our survival depends on this, on facing the global warming.


Two years ago, Al Gore who used to be the next president of USA , presented a film which is called " An Inconvenient Truth ". This film highlights lots of information about global warming and classifies lots of causes and effects. Al Gore used some charts, pictures and many facts to convince the people and reiterated his argument, such as melting ice caps and the glaciers; also he talked about the rising of the sea level. We watched the movie and read reviews of it, mostly favourable, e.g. Brandon Fibbs, but some unfavorable, e.g. Scott Nash.

I can't say if I didn’t use the car so much and I was a vegetarian that this will stop the global warming. We need to convince all the people that the global warming is getting worse and our life is in danger, so we all have to try to reduce global warming by many way's like walk when we can and don’t use the car and use one or two cars for the whole family instead of 5 or 6 and many things. By the way, we measured our carbon footprints & mine was 3.1.The class average for CRB was 3.778.

In conclusion, if we all agreed to reduce global warming. We can do it and save our lives and our planet. By the way, climate scientists think that things people do are helping to make the Earth warmer. So, we have to take it seriously because it really threatens to our life. As I say above, walk when we can, try to reduce the greenhouse gases and use the public transportation will help us on this. But I insisted on these words at the beginning", If we all".


Bibliography :

An Inconvenient Truth. Dir. Davis Guggenheim. Perf. Al Gore. DVD. Paramount Classics, 2006

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

Scott Nash ,
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth/articles/156,http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Task 6 - Cool Cities

Cool Cities




In the last 300 years, the world witnessed a massive industrial revolution. This revolution caused many negative things, and one of them is the pollution. The pollution affects the temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide. More than that, it's causing the traffic congestion. If this thing continues, the earth will not bear this quantity of pollution.



According to this fact, we are in danger so we have to stop this thing from happening and continuing.



We watched film about Cool Cities, and the Japanese people started their cool cities project which depends on using renewable energy and electric vehicles and many other things. By this way, they are making the environment cleaner and less polluted.

As we say, " A journay of a thousand miles begins with one step ". That means this is the first step and we have to continue what the Japanese started and reduce the pollution because the earth can not tolerate this level of pollution.