Even at the beginning of age and human kind we always had a impact upon the environment. Though back in the days before all the big factories, industrializations or transportation the impact was less. Human kind learned how to outsource natural resources and turn them into energy that was used every day. We created pollution and harmed our mother earth. Over the past hundred years we build big factories and energy feed them coal in order to produce and work. The coal was burned and gone into our atmosphere. We cut down massive amount of preserved forest that would actually help us to even out the dirt we send in the atmosphere with clean air produced by trees. But instead we burn the trees for agriculture or use it as energy or building things like houses that then need again energy.
Humans created a evil cycle that in the 20th century we are not able to recover from. Because the ozone layer is already damaged. The ozone-layer is the part that is between earth and sun and protects us to stay cool and maintain a temperature so living things on earth and even earth can exist. But because we like to burn coal, oil and other fuels that we receive from the earth and through pollution we created a whole in the ozone layer that leads to global warming and melting of the poles and weather abnormalities in the whole world. But around the 1990 people to started to make the civilization aware that we are in desperate needs of a change. But this awareness is not find for everyone with appreciation. That would and will mean for many big cooperation and companies to become more environmentally friendly and rethink their action upon how to produce or recreate or construct their products new.
Car companies are a big example. We have the knowledge and technology to produce a electric driven car but those cars are extremely expensive to make and to buy. The company offers you a luxury that ranges from 64.000$ to 88.000$ which is very expensive for a normal middle class person. Their website gives a overview upon where you can get your energy from. And if we take a closer look the energy is received from 44% of coal production in the US as well as 20% of nuclear production and 23% natural gas. For me this is not the ultimate resolution you still enable american to get their energy from resources that harm the earth. The production of Wind/ solar and biomass energy is very small and we need to find a greater demand on that. If we can receive more people on board with wind energy which I think is the most efficient we can sleep with a calmer satisfaction that we are doing something good. Solar energy would require getting rid of land and losing on trees and agriculture, biomass would create pollution and wind will be always there and deserves more demand from the people.
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