Friday, September 14, 2007

Save the world - Its in your hands!

Thinking about the environment & being earth friendly isn’t just concerning the choices you formulate while buying stuff or involving us with the surrounding environment – but it’s really the height of utilization that is most eye catching and also a hindrance to us being earth-friendly. The thing is when we have this thoughts of suddenly becoming earth-friendly, the plummeting the burning up of useless or extra energy in all parts of life plays a significant character in forestalling a case of our civilization behaving similar to the eminent lemmings.

Say in case of a common man like me who’s a bit concerned about being earth-friendly, a car is an essential thing in our everyday life. So, the question is to -Run my car on LPG? You may think that’s great that way I can go a longer distance and it wont hurt my pocket that much too!

Say you Need additional power? Now, we will only think of ways immediately to solve that need of ours. Earth friendly measures go out of the window & we plan to build innumerable power plants and all sorts of things without thinking of their consequences.

This is a general approach for the majority of the people who try or act to be earth-friendly but are not really. An indispensable ingredient of existing in a more earth friendly life is regarding less power or energy consumption that can be avoided. Even the amazing wind turbines are contrived in such a way that is not earth-friendly at all if we view it from an environmental point of view.

If this article was written several years ago, the scenario would have been me sitting in an workplace driven by numerous 100 watt globes, gazing at a 17 inch CRT display while I wrote this article. Beside from the display, the PC would have been using a power of 100 watts minimum. Consequently that's a sum of 300 watts of power utilization an hour. My electrical energy would also probably have been of the burning of coal, which is also not earth friendly as well.

These days, my workplace is powered by means of a 10 watt compacted glowing globe & I use a laptop with a screen of lesser dimensions that draw around 90 watts hourly. Over a day, I accumulate about 2 kilowatts of power and the electricity use is sourced by renewable energies, which is a very earth friendly technique, which should be followed by all earth friendly people.

Being earth friendly never meant to live like cavemen or tribal people; being earth friendly even doesn’t tend to point to the fact that we should surrender all luxuries of life. Earth friendly therefore consequently means controlling and limiting the various aspects that are not that important & causes harm to the environment.

But, in terms of power expenditure on the whole, with all the novel fangled low energy gadgets approaching these days, power star ratings to lead us & thus certainly we have got to be using less power each person?

Actually that’s not happening. The trend of being earth friendly- is it actually a reality? The majority of reports from various nations around the earth about energy usages affirm the sad truth that it's escalating. There are more people that are responsible for the majority of people not being earth friendly because of the irresponsible wastage of energy.

So, being earth friendly is just not a concern of one person, it should be the common nature of all humans around the world. Because it is we who made this world what it is today, so its time we prove that we can be earth friendly & take the responsibility of creating a hassle-free & safe world for us & our future generations.

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