Climate Change

Climate change has been one of the biggest issues in the world for decades. These years, you can really feel the climate changing. You can observe winter become colder and colder in the US and Europe; at the same time winter is nearly disappeared in some area like South Asia. Everyone should have been aware of the problem about climate change. No one should say he/she does not know what it is. Even a kid knows the word “global warming”. However, the situation was not improved but even worsened. A simple deduction is that people just ignore it!

It is now 21st century and we are in a modern world. Electricity is essential to everyone. Computers, which need electricity in order to work, are everywhere and they play vital parts of the world. It seems we cannot live without electricity, which you can see from a power failure. And it is true in some way, without electricity, we will not die immediately, but the whole world will surely collapse. In such a modern world, there is always an increasing demand of electricity and an increasing use of cars, ships and planes. As it needs fuel like coal and oil to produce electricity, there is no difference between using electricity and burning fuel. As a result, we are producing more and more greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide by burning more and more fuel. It is the result when we just ignore the problem of global warming and do nothing about it, which is what most people are doing now.

Why do people ignore such a big problem which will damage our dear planet Earth? A simple reason is that many people are selfish. They do not care what will happen fifty years later. They do not even think about how their offspring could live on such a polluted and dying earth. They just enjoy their lives today. They enjoy using all the technology products like television, computers and mobile phones. They abuse using and wasting fuel, papers, plastics and many other resources because they think they did pay for them and they can do anything they want. They also feel it is stupid if they do not enjoy what they have now but give up all the things to save the environment.

Another reason is that they are lazy. They feel it is too inconvenient to recycle materials and save the use of resources. And they always forget to turn off lights and switch off electric appliances when they do not need them. They also use all kinds of disposables. All of these behaviors are because of convenience, and also laziness. They can help the environment but they just do not want to help.

Therefore, I think people have already realized the problem of global warming, but they just ignore it with several reasons mentioned above. However, to be honest, it is hard to do so much to help the environment in reality. For example, when you have lunch in a fast-food shop, you will probably not bring with your own forks and knifes. And you cannot just move to a forest and live there to reduce using electricity and fuel. But it does not mean that we can just do nothing towards this problem. We should try our very best to do every tiny work to save the earth. Maybe you will think it is too little and it does not help much to save the whole earth. However, if all of us can really do these tiny works, then it would be a huge help and we can save the earth!