Global Warming An Enemy For Human Race

Global Warming an Enemy for Human Race

When we hear or read the word "global warming" many things popped up unto our minds.

The basic concept we had about global warming is that temperature rises on earth's surface, and

abnormal changes of the climate occurs. According to Heartland Institute that scientists have

discovered that concentrations of minor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly carbon

dioxide (CO2) are rising (Instant expert guide, 2007). Carbon dioxide could trap more heat in

the atmosphere, leading to a gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere. Theoritically, global

warming caused negative impacts to all living creatures especially us human beings by applying

3 R's which stands for reduce, re-use, and recycle we can lessen the impact, and we can have the

ideal place to live in.

We should act now before it is too late; we should start doing things that will help lessen the

causes of global warming; one of these is re- using plastic bags. Do not throw plastic bags

away because plastics would not decompose right away, it may take up to couple or hundred of

years for them to decompose. Not only that plastic also emits harmful gas to the air especially if

it is burned in an incinerator. This gas specifically carbon dioxide would damaged the ozone

layer. Ozone layer is an atmospheric layer within the stratosphere made of allotropic form of

oxygen, and having a heavy concentration of ozone: it absorbs dangerous ultraviolet radiation

from the sun and serves to maintain the temperature of the atmosphere (Webster new world,

2007). If the plastic bags can not be use any longer, we can pack them and take it to a factory

where the plastic is recycled. 

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In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital is a city with all the problems of the under developed

world, pollution is the number one problem. Joanna Stavropolou (2007) reports that Addis

Ababa the most visible form of pollution is the plastic bags, cheap thin plastics are everywhere:

in the rivers, on the streets and in the treetops. When plastic bags clog the waterways they

create bacteria infected cesspits that further contaminate the already unclean water. During

rainy seasons, plastics leach further toxic waste into the soil when they are buried under layers

of mud.

The chart shows how poor Addis residents, a bigger portion of it are those people that do not

have electricity and running water in their houses; and their number one problem is pollution.

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70% of Addis Ababa's waste is not adequately dispose of bins are left uncollected,

household rubbish is dumped directly in rivers and trash is tossed by people wherever they

happen. SOS Addis, a non governmental organization (NGO) that was created by

Ethiopians, started out by training 25 women, who were provided with gowns, gloves, masks

and boots in order to pick up the plastic bags safely through the wastes: through its recycling

program, it is cleaning up the urban environment while giving some form of employment to

desperate women who have no other means of income (Re use, recycle, revitalize, 2007).

In Haiti, the role of garbage recycling as tool of sustainable development. Haiti is the

poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, suffering 60% to 80% percent unemployment, a

longstanding AIDS epidemic and environmental devastation (Spencer, May-June 2007). Jean

Wilbert Bruno exclaimed that, "Haitians cut trees and the environment is destroyed because

people are poor and hungry" (Bruno; second generation Haitian metal craftsman, 2007). The

result of deforestation aggravates flooding and soil erosion, leaving little land for subsistence

farming and adding to the mountains of garbage cluttering the landscape and it is hard to find a

street that is not completely littered (Hugh Locke, 2007). Refuse has become a key way for

Haitians to tackle poverty; the cavenged oil drums are the raw material for roughhewn yet

delicately detailed metal sculptures called fer de coupe. The craftspeople cut the drums apart,

hammer them flat, draw a design with chalk, then hand chisel them into the desired shapes.

Street children collect white plastics jugs, snippets of which they shape into graceful floral pins

and AIDS fundraiser ribbons (Wyclef, 2007).