Prominent book authors said that technology is the biggest contributor to climate change, in you capacity as an IT student, how would you address this global problem? Enumerate steps and actions to be taken. (at least 3,000 words)
Climate change is the rapid change of climates around the world. This changing happens because of some reasons. Like for example burning of fuels, burning of plastics, the smoke that came out from power plants, and also deforestation. This changing of climates will cause global warming. Global warming is the result of rising of temperature cause by the greenhouse gases. Water vapor is an example of greenhouse gas, the result of this gas is called greenhouse effect. Technology is said to be the biggest contributor of global warming.
Using of computers can also be a cause of global warming, radiations came out from computers may cause greenhouse effect, and the heat that it releases may cause too. This can be an example on why technology is the biggest contributor to climate change because as we all know almost all people, company, plantations; factories are now using high technology or computers. Just like plants before, they make manual operations just to control the motors in the plantations, but now they are just using digital power controls in the motor controls.
Most of the high technology equipments now are releasing electromagnetic fields that can cause bad effects. Just like for example the cell phones, the electromagnetic field from it may cause harm to our health. Plantations and factories are the reason why we experience global warming; because of the pollution that it releases it causes holes to our ozone layer. Carbon emissions and greenhouse gases are elements that came from the different technologies, that if being world the atmosphere may cause a climate change or global warming.
What is global warming (Lindinger, 2007) it is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth. Earth is getting hotter it is more likely disasters like hurricanes, droughts and floods are more frequent visit the world. According to (Imaginova Corp., 2007) the effects of global warming to be more substantial and more rapidly occurring than others do, the scientific consensus on climatic changes related to global warming is that the average temperature of the Earth has risen between 0.4 and 0.8 °C over the past 100 years. The increased volumes of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released by the burning of fossil fuels, land clearing, agriculture, and other human activities, are believed to be the primary sources of the global warming that has occurred over the past 50 years. So it is said to be that people are the primary reason why we experience this king of global warming. Because man always create things to help them to make their work easier and faster without knowing the effects of this technology in the environment and in the earth where we live in. The sun is the Earth’s primary source of energy, sun is star that is so hot which we can sense it’s warm from 150 million kilometers away. The rays the sun enters in the earth’s atmosphere and can be feel in our planet. It is about one third of this solar energy is reflected back into the universe by shimmering glaciers, water and other bright surfaces. Two thirds are absorbed by the earth, warming land, oceans, and atmosphere. A lot of the heat of the sun spread out reverse out into space, but some of this are stored in the earth’s atmosphere. This process is commonly called as the greenhouse effect. Without greenhouse effect, the earth’s average temperature would be in 18 degrees Celsius, even despite the sun’s constant energy supply. In a world like this, life on Earth would probably have never emerged from the sea. The greenhouse effect helps a lot; on the other hand, heat emitted from the earth is trapped in the atmosphere, providing us with a comfortable average temperature of 14 degrees. Sunrays enter the glass roof and walls of a greenhouse. But once they heat up the ground, which, in turn, heats up the air inside the greenhouse, the glass panels trap that warm air and temperatures increase. But our planet has no glass walls; the only thing that comes close to acting as such is our atmosphere. But unfortunately, in here, processes are way more complicated.
As an IT student I can deal myself with the climate change because almost every day I am using a computer, and I and everyday I am using cell phone, new technology equipments that can cause global warming. So in order to minimize the global warming greenhouse effect and what we commonly called climate change here are my simple steps that I can do as an IT student:
1. Minimize using of computer
As we all know computer are the most important thing in student especially in Information Technology student. Because I always used my computer in every assignment, creating programs, encoding papers, researching and most especially in entertainment like playing games and watching movie.
In order to minimize the climate change in the world we must minimize the usage of computers, since computers and other gadget we used are commonly producing some elements like radiation and carbon dioxide that frequently reason why we have global warming and even causes disease like cancer.
I will use my computer in making assignments and major paper only not in playing games.
2. Recycle things
People produce garbage everyday and many of us didn’t know how to separate things like recyclable to non recyclable and biodegradable to non biodegradable. For me in order to minimize global warming I should use my initiative to create a thing out of the garbage and even try to create a thing that can also raise an income out of recyclable things. By this I can help our earth to minimize global warming and also help me to have income.
3. Plant trees
Trees are the main reason why we have oxygen in order for us to breathe. Trees undergo a process called photosynthesis that converting carbon dioxide with the help of the sun to produce oxygen. If we plant trees we can prevent global warming.
4. Segregate
Segregate garbage and dispose it properly.
References:
Climate Change. Department of Ecology State of Washington Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/whatis.htm
Global Warming. Allianz Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/climate_change/global_warming_basics/global_warming_definition.html
Global Warming. Livescience Retrieved December 27, 2008 from http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
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