| Global warming is a complex phenomenon, and its | | | | the transportation expenses so that not only less |
| full-scale impacts are hard to predict far in | | | | petrol is used and less CO2 is emitted but also |
| advance. But each year scientists learn more | | | | less money is spent. 3.We should try to buy |
| about how global warming is affecting the planet, | | | | paper or wood products that are certified by the |
| and many agree that certain consequences are | | | | Forestry Commission as being from sustainable, |
| likely to occur if current trends continue. Among | | | | managed woodlands and avoid excess printing of |
| these: melting glaciers, early snowmelt and severe | | | | documents from the computer. Print |
| droughts will cause more dramatic water | | | | non-presentation documents on the draft ink |
| shortages and rising sea levels will lead to coastal | | | | setting. If possible print on both sides of sheets of |
| flooding; warmer sea surface temperatures will | | | | paper, thus saving both paper and money. 4.We |
| fuel more intense hurricanes; forests, farms and | | | | must try our level best to recycle as much as |
| cities will face troublesome new pests and more | | | | possible. This is not just limited to paper, but can |
| mosquito-borne diseases, and disruption of | | | | include glass, plastic, metal, and a number of other |
| habitats such as coral reefs and alpine meadows | | | | things. Many agencies run recycling collection |
| could drive many plant and animal species to | | | | services. 5.Above all and beyond any expenses or |
| extinction. Throughout most of human history, | | | | loss we can encourage people we know to do |
| and certainly before human beings emerged as a | | | | any or all of the things stated above. 6.Even if we |
| dominant species throughout the world, all climate | | | | only turn off the light when we leave a room, the |
| changes were the direct result of natural forces. | | | | amount of energy that we save builds up over a |
| That changed with the start of the Industrial | | | | period of time. If, bit by bit, more and more |
| Revolution, when new agricultural and industrial | | | | people start to do that, we may think of how |
| practices began to alter the global climate and | | | | much energy will be saved, thereby reducing the |
| environment. Before that time, human activity | | | | amount of fossil fuels that need to be burned, |
| didn’t release many greenhouse gases, but | | | | and reducing the amount of CO2 that enters the |
| population growth, deforestation, factory farming, | | | | atmosphere, reducing global warming. 7.Similarly if |
| and the widespread use of fossil fuels are creating | | | | we print on both sides of the paper, we may |
| an excess of greenhouse gases in the | | | | think how much paper we will save over time. |
| atmosphere and contributing to global warming. | | | | Interestingly, quite a lot and without any loss if all |
| There are many simple steps we can take right | | | | the people do similar efforts on a street, how |
| now to cut global warming pollution. For example, | | | | many trees would they save? 8.We must note |
| we can cut global warming pollution by simply | | | | and propagate the fact that small actions really do |
| reducing pollution from vehicles and power plants. | | | | matter, even if at first they appear fairly |
| Right away, we should put existing technologies | | | | insignificant. Most of the time, they involve little |
| for building cleaner cars and more modern | | | | effort from us and a lot of them save our |
| electricity generators into widespread use. We can | | | | money in the long run; and while doing them, we |
| increase our reliance on renewable energy sources | | | | are helping to save the world from ecological |
| such as wind, sun and geothermal. And we can | | | | disaster. 9.Some people take things so casually |
| manufacture more efficient appliances and | | | | and selfishly that they prefer to argue that it is |
| conserve energy. Some of the important steps | | | | already too late to do some thing worthy of any |
| that can be adopted by informed and reasonable | | | | worth. We must let them know and realize that if |
| inhabitants of this unique planet may be | | | | their lot doesn't try now then they will certainly be |
| summarized as under: 1.We should turn off the | | | | compelled at some point in the not-too-distant |
| light when we are not in a room, and use more | | | | future to opt for stringent measures but it will be |
| energy-efficient bulbs. While energy-efficient bulbs | | | | too late then. 10.All of the environmental and |
| are expensive, they do last longer. Not only will | | | | other problems will first diminish and then vanish |
| this save money, but it reduces the amount of | | | | the day, humans realize the meaning of social |
| electricity that needs to be generated and so less | | | | animals ‘what they have been dubbed as’ |
| fossil fuels have to be burned. 2.We should try to | | | | and humanity ‘what is expected of them’ |
| use public transport, walk, or cycle if possible. It is | | | | as they are bringing all sorts of harm to them and |
| said that the bicycle is the most efficient form of | | | | their environment under the pretext of civilization |
| transport known to man. One must travel in a car | | | | and development, ignoring the facts that |
| only when necessary and unavoidable. If one | | | | existence and sustenance of other species are as |
| knows people who are going to the same place, | | | | essential and meaningful as their existence and |
| he/she try to car share both the transport and | | | | reproduction and that too for themselves alone. |