Going Green
Convenience or Intelligence?
To say that everyone will “Go Green” is definitely an inaccurate assumption. The first step to avoid depleting our natural resources is the minor changes we make throughout our daily routine. I believe that the lack of awareness and intelligence are the culprits to blame. Everyday parents work towards shaping the future of their children’s lives but why is it that they are never concerned with how their environment will be once their children have reached adulthood? Although “Going Green” involves more effort; it is our responsibility to make the generation and future generations aware of the consequences they will render if we all choose convenience over intelligence.
Why go green? We are running out of natural resources. This will directly affect our future generation. The demand for energy is higher than the supply and our future generations will suffer. By “Going Green” and saving energy you will have more money in your pocket as well as take steps to provide a better future for our loved ones. Recycling plays a huge role in “Going Green.” When you recycle one aluminum can it saves enough energy to run a television for three complete hours. That is equivalent to one gallon of gas (gogreencommercially.com). Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4,100 kilowatt hours of energy “which is enough energy to power a single home for five months (gogreencommercially.com).” Saving those 17 trees enables them to absorb 250 pounds of carbon dioxide whereas burning them would create 1,500 pounds of carbon dioxide. “Twenty-five million is the number of trees a year that would be saved if each American would save one tenth of their newspapers (gogreencommercially.com). These are just a few facts of how our resources are being overused. So what happens if we run out of our natural resources? Paula Swaney stated in our telephone interview that “our ecosystem
To say that everyone will “Go Green” is definitely an inaccurate assumption. The first step to avoid depleting our natural resources is the minor changes we make throughout our daily routine. I believe that the lack of awareness and intelligence are the culprits to blame. Everyday parents work towards shaping the future of their children’s lives but why is it that they are never concerned with how their environment will be once their children have reached adulthood? Although “Going Green” involves more effort; it is our responsibility to make the generation and future generations aware of the consequences they will render if we all choose convenience over intelligence.
Why go green? We are running out of natural resources. This will directly affect our future generation. The demand for energy is higher than the supply and our future generations will suffer. By “Going Green” and saving energy you will have more money in your pocket as well as take steps to provide a better future for our loved ones. Recycling plays a huge role in “Going Green.” When you recycle one aluminum can it saves enough energy to run a television for three complete hours. That is equivalent to one gallon of gas (gogreencommercially.com). Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4,100 kilowatt hours of energy “which is enough energy to power a single home for five months (gogreencommercially.com).” Saving those 17 trees enables them to absorb 250 pounds of carbon dioxide whereas burning them would create 1,500 pounds of carbon dioxide. “Twenty-five million is the number of trees a year that would be saved if each American would save one tenth of their newspapers (gogreencommercially.com). These are just a few facts of how our resources are being overused. So what happens if we run out of our natural resources? Paula Swaney stated in our telephone interview that “our ecosystem