Transcript 10 solutions for climate change

10 Solutions for climate change
10 solutions for climate change
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Introduction
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• Everyone can do something to reduce the
greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon
emissions.
• People all over the world
• Every person in the world can make a
difference and help reduce global warming
• These slides are some ideas that you can do to
help global warming
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• Forego Fossil Fuels
• Eliminating the burning of coal, oil, and
eventually natural gas
• Try to employ alternatives if it is possible like
plant-derived plastics, biodiesel, and wind
power also invest in change, like divesting
from oil stocks or investing in companies
practicing carbon capture and storage
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• Infrastructure Upgrade
• Investing in new infrastructure, or making
better highways and transmission lines, would
also help cut greenhouse gas emissions
• Have energy-efficient buildings and improved
cement-making processes could also reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in the developed
world and stop them in the developing world
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• Move closer to work
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• Use mass transit, or switch to walking, biking, or any
other mode that does not require anything but
human energy
• There is an option that we can work from home and
telecommuting several times a week
• Cutting down travel to long distance places on air
planes would also help
• Instead of going on an airplane for short or medium
distance places use a train.
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• Consume Less
• Buy less stuff
• Buy a good car that will last the longest and
have the least impact on the environment.
• Don’t purchase things from far away that have
to be shipped here
• Buy in bulk to reduce the amount of packaging
such as plastic, wrappers, cardboard boxes,
and any other unnecessary materials.
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• Be efficient
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• Turn off the lights when not in the room
• Don’t speed in a gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles
• Good driving and car maintenance are important.
Making sure your tires are properly inflated
• Weatherproof the windows instead of using heat or
air-conditioners
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• Eat Smart
• Don’t eat a lot of meat. Be a vegetarian
• Choose organic produce that don’t require oil
for the fertilizer to grow it or has to be
transported or shipped far away.
• It takes up less land to grow the crops
necessary to feed humans than livestock, so
there is more room to plant trees
7 solution
• Stop Cutting down Trees
• timber harvesting adds to the carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere
• Recycle paper
• Buy used goods when you buy floor
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• Unplug
• Televisions, stereo equipment, computers,
battery chargers, and other gadgets or
appliances consume a lot of energy even
when they’re turned off, so unplug them
instead of just turning them off.
• Buy energy efficient gadgets
• Swap old incandescent light bulbs with more
efficient ones like compact florescent bulbs
9 solution
• One child
• Requires 54 acres to sustains 1 person, so
having 1 child would reduce greenhouse gas
emissions
• Don’t know how many people the Earth can
sustain, but the popuulation must decrease if
climattte change is to be controlled
• It is clear that humans are the cause of
greenhouse gases and if there are more of us,
we contribute more to the greenhouse gas
emissions
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• Future Fuels
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• Peplace and remove fossil fuels
• Electric cars, and transportation may be a
good solution in the short term
• Solar thermal power or nuclear fission would
help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• hyper efficient photovoltaic cells, solar energy
stations in orbit or even fusion may ultimately
be required
11 solution
• Experiment Earth
• Geo-engineering ideas are potentials to help with climate
change.
• Releasing sulfate particles in the air to mimic the cooling
effects of a massive volcano eruption; placing millions of small
mirrors or lenses in space to deflect sunlight; covering
portions of the planet with reflective films to bounce sunlight
back into space; fertilizing the oceans with iron or other
nutrients to enable plankton to absorb lots of carbon; and
increasing cloud cover or the reflectivity of clouds that already
form are ideas that might help with climate change
• These ideas might not work and might make the solution
worse, but it is clear that some form of geo-engineering will
likely be required.