Carbon Emission and Carbon Footprint: Energy Use

In this age, people are unaware that they are consuming the earth’s resources at an alarming rate. People generate CO2 from using an electric toothbrush, driving to work, boiling water and many other unexpected daily routines. When these actions are performed, a carbon footprint is emitted. This essay will explain what a carbon footprint is, the results of my test, and recommend some solutions to help reduce the earth’s natural resources consumption.
Carbon footprint is the total amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases emitted by a certain activity of a person or device. Each materials produce certain amount of CO2 while using it, while in our daily use we use lots of electricity and transport stuff which increase the footprint while we can reduce them by switching off the stuff we don’t need like the heater, lights, AC, lots of electronic stuff which we use in our daily life. Even we can use public transport in cities so that less private cars will be used between people.
I used 2 website to measure my carbon footprint. It was easy because we just have to click on the stuff which we use daily and it will get the mount of the CO2 percent a person use or leave behind. For example lots of people uses electricity lots, food and they spent on traveling and life style which leave a footprint behind.
Well I made a compare between four of my class mate and I was shocked to know I was having the highest percent of the footprint which was 3.63 planets which I use for daily usage. The second highest was Waleed who had 3.5 planets of footprint. We use around 60% on traveling and life style from our total use. Then comes Basel who had almost 3 planets and who was followed by khalil who had 2.93 planets. They were using computer games more than anything in their life. The lowest was Ali who had just 1.85 planets and the most his use was on travel because he lives outside the city.
In conclusion, lots of people in UAE uses lots of things which give a high percentage of footprint while we can reduce it without giving lots of effort and make it the limit we need.

Bibliography:
Re-think your lifestyle. 23 Apr. 2009 .
WWF Footprint Calculator. 23 Apr . 2009 http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/.

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An Inconvenient Truth

An inconvenient truth the movie which was a warning to the world about global warming. This movie had a great impact on public and helped to open there eyes to see the dangerous position which we were in or our planet, but some reviewers had some negative and positive opinion about the movie. Let me examine them for you and give my opinion.
Some of the negative reviewer mention that this is not about global warming it’s all about Al Gore. They don’t consider this as a movie because it had lots of slide show with high technology power point presentation, picture’s and chats. However the thing with his son had nothing to with the global warming and the way he was studying paper’s at plane, having picture of himself being in a serious mood wasn’t part of global warming neither, which was on the movie.” CHRIS VOGNAR”

The positive reviewer have a good expression on the movie and they said that they already knew these stuff but Al Gore bought everything together which opened there eyes and saw how dangerous we are in, planet. The amount of the Co2 on the air have been increased by last few year in a high rate. However lots of natural changes have been shown in the movie as a result of global warming and what this movie is pointing at is to stop global warming as fast as we can” Brian Orndorf”

In my opinion I am with Brian Orndorf thoughts and this movie had a great rule in opening people’s eyes towards global warming and I don’t think Al Gore done this movie for personal and I really think that he wanted to help our planet from dying with the help of media.

Bibliography
Orndorf, B. 2006. An inconvenient truth. Retrieved April 5, 2009 from http://www.filmjerk.com/reviews/article.php?id_rev=837
Schickel, Richard. 2006. An inconvenient truth. Retrieved April 5, 2009 from
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