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Currently in our world there is a massive movement towards making everything more “environmentally friendly”, but why?
The main debates are all centred around Global Warming, a phenomenon caused by increases in emissions of “greenhouse gases”. Some of these gases occur naturally such as water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. On top of these we have the gases caused by industry hydroflourocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride. With the most discussed greenhouse gas being carbon dioxide, this being caused chiefly by the burning of fossil fuels, wood and solid waste.
The gases that our planet cannot process then travel up to what is known as the ‘o-zone’ layer and form a film all around the earth which allows the suns rays in to warm up the earth but will not allow heat to emanated outwards and as such the planet warms up, like a greenhouse.
Scientists have worked out that in the state our planet is currently in the planet is capable of safely processing roughly 9 Gigatonnes of CO2 every year without any repercussions, this equates as 4.5tonnes allowance for every person on this planet. This sounds like a lot of gas but when you consider that last year the average American citizen 20tonnes last year and the average European emitted 10 tonnes, you could see why our planet could possibly be in bother.
Between the rise in greenhouse gases and the rise in deforestation worldwide the planet is becoming more and more unstable. Some signs of this have already shown themselves like changes in weather systems, and the beginning of melting polar ice caps, causing coastal flooding, and changes in sea currents, which in turn can cause more frequent and more severe storms.
There are many theorist who claim that global warming is just a hoax but given that every major scientific body in the world have done their own studies and all found it to be true, then it seems to be a very important and pressing...