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Essay What We Are Doing to Our Planet

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It’s happening everywhere, you can see it and you can feel it. You may not feel it day by day, but as years progress you’ll notice the difference. Environmental change, Human factors, Economic effects and Political effects are what are causing our planet to change with our desirable needs. There are many ways to reduce greenhouse gasses that trap heat in our atmosphere. We as a human race are growing at a rate of 251 babies every minute, that’s 361,481 every day and 131,940,565 every year. Food, shelter water and energy are ever so high in demand and we will even go far enough to damage our own natural resources to sustain the new heads. Our environment has changed dramatically over the past 50-100 years. Ice berks in the north and …show more content…

As I said previously that we are growing as a race and demand more and more to sustain us. We are destroying our and slowly by Taking down forests illegally and legally the most harm is done by the one legally destruction of forests. Also, we blow up and remove mountains to take natural resources. Leaving behind a destructive land where before animals and forests thrived. We drill offshore in our oceans to suck oil out, but most of the time these procedures are very dangerous and deadly. There are many cases that there are leaks on the oil rig and the wild life is dramatically affected by it. Such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 where more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was spilled and it affected 16,000 miles of coastline. More than 8000 animals were reported to dead after 6 months of the oil spill. As humans we can reduce our fossil fuel emissions dramatically by finding alternative fuels. One way to change use of oil for our cars is to use hydrogen or electricity. I think in the near future electricity will be a cheaper resource since we are using wind, solar panel and sunlight to provide energy. If every home had solor panels on the roof they would dramatically save allot of energy. Plus solor energy is a win win situation since you will only pay for the maintains and not fot he actual energy crated. Also, if every care had solar powered air condition that will dramatically increase your mile per gallon (or kilometer per

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