Social Issue / Technological Solution

There is one social problem that could literally cause an Armageddon if it is not fixed. Some scientist says we might be too late and our end is near. This problem is no other than Global Warming, the increase of our planet’s temperature. Global warming is no longer a gimmick, it’s real and it has cost too much destruction already. The good news is that we might have a chance to save ourselves if we act quickly. The destruction is of Global Warming our technological advantage to solve it, and our individual choices will determined if the Armageddon will soon be here. I suggest you open your eyes and try to analyze this problem even if for just a minute so that you will truly understand the issue.

Our planet’s temperature has been increasing forever, but not like this. For the past 100 years we’ve dramatically accelerated. Global warming is cause by the release of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which traps the sun’s heat making our planet’s average temperature increase. Carrier of CO2 are industries, cars, power plants etc. We humans contribute drastically to Global Warming. Global warming causes our weather to go awry, our ocean current to mess up, and natural disaster strikes more often. This disease to the earth has the power to change a simple rainfall into a hurricane or increase the chance and might of a tornado. Disastrous phenomenon such as tsunamis can occur more frequently in the future.

The technological solution obviously to reduce the amount of CO2 we emitted into the atmosphere. Technological solution are already being develop such as hydroelectric, wind power, solar power, thermal power etc. We've come up with cleaner renewable sources of energy that practically emits no CO2. We need to head into the direction of renewable sources of energy as soon as possible to save our lives.

My solution to the problem involves cheaper way to extract hydrogen from the air. It’s actually hard to find a renewable source of energy for cars that uses oxygen and hydrogen, but hydrogen is just too expensive to make. Many researchers are being done to find cheaper was to extract hydrogen. If they do find a way then that will be the key to the solution. My solution is for scientist to study plants and animals that does a similar process so that they could apply it. This might be possible because scientists are looking at nature for a solution. The closet to thing they found was a simple leaf; they’re studying how it transfers sunlight into energy with just a simple genetic makeup and a few chemicals. If this is solved then we could be driving cleaner friendly fueled cars in the future.

There is also one more thing I will envision that could also save us and that is just doing our own part. We could do a lot to reduce the CO2 emission right now by using less energy such as turning off a light or walking instead of driving. Companies should distribute information all over, though the news, internet, television, etc to make thing a big deal. The movie “a innocent truth” has done a good job at this. Everyone will have to work as a term to escape this one because a technological advance will only go as far as we will push it.