Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Post 7: Environment

First of all, I think that in this particular topic our society not so concern. Let this subject in different topics.
Pollution, could be one of the more important topics related with the human activities and environment, there is no anthropic actions without consequences thus all the activities we make generate environmental pollution. There is any way maintain our activities and generate zero pollution, in my opinion that is impossible, because we generate direct or indirect pollution and pollution could be chemical or physical, is not only related with waste or gas emissions, for example if we use the water of a river and the return the same amount of water to the river course, but with different temperature our activity generate pollution. Pollution is a very complex concept involves a lot of things related with the environment.
Climate change, in my opinion climate is always changing. The Earth is always in cooler o warmer cycles, we have son proves in the analysis that some researcher did in the Antarctic ice. Don’t you remember that in the 80’s we were talking about a new glaciations, because the temperatures were lower than the average of the 60’s or 70’s, but now we are talking that the Earth is getting warmer and this rise of temperature is related with the carbon dioxide. One of the most affrighting things of this assumption is that could be based in wrong information and in exponential model (the exponential model always rise). I think that we are not the problem…we need put all our effort in the previous topic.
Renewable energies, the renewable energies could the solution to the fossils fuels, one of the most important needs to a develop society is the energy, countries like USA or German consumes between 15 to 50 times the energy that we use in Chile, and they are changing from fossils fuels to renewable energies form the wind or the sun. This could the solution to some of our present problems, but we need to research more.
Carbon and Water footprint, the anthropics activities could be measure with these indexes, both are important and represent different thought the how to see the environment. In my opinion both could be used to make the difference in our actions, but nobody is teaching us the relevance of the environment in our life and how every step we make have a repercussions not only in our life but in the Earth.

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