Thursday, April 30, 2009

Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases produce by human activates. In this essay, I will show you a way to calculate the level of your carbon footprint.

I have visited two website to calculate my footprint and they are footprint.wwf.org.uk and heroesofuae.com and this is down by some logical questions about the use of things around you. I found out my footprint average and I’m causing what is equal to 1.68 planets, this show that I’m causing some of emotions in the earth.



I have compared my results with some of my friends in class and I have found out that I’m 2nd least one between my friends. Moh’d Abdullah’s his average is 26.8 which makes him the highest one between us. Following him Abood 2.28, then me with average of 1.68 and the least one is sultan with an average of 1.48. This shows us that different people have different ways of using things around us. In the future I would compare with other people around the world.



To sum up, I believe it’s time to reduce using unimportant things. We have to close the lights every time we leave our room and we have to use our cars when we have to otherwise we suppose to use another way to travel.

Monday, April 13, 2009

An Inconvenient Truth

Al Gore presents the crisis that hits our earth which is the global worming. There are problems that we have already faced and there are some more in the future. I’m going to write down the argument on the An Inconvenient Truth.


First the disagreement on this film. A writer was forced to watch it. He wrote that Al Gore characters in the film were the Earth, Al Gore, and the Apple G4 Powerbook. The technology that he used to display the slide was a apple G4 Powerbook , “. Apple must have agreed to sponsor Al Gore’s entire life for the amount of footage there is of Al staring intensely at his laptop, with the glowing Apple insignia present in each of these shots”( Zack Furness). Second Al Gore look was serious and he gave a heavy tone when he talked about his life in the farm, the near death of his son , politic and smoking is bad. From all of this it didn’t show any connection between the this and the global warming.

However there are some agreed arguments about this movie. Al Gore explained every crisis that my causes by the global warming.” He stands on a stage before a vast screen, in front of an audience” (ROGER EBERT) he was like an alarm that wakes you up showing you what is happing to the earth. He provides proves of global warming, the hurricane, warm waters and the rise of carbon dioxide. Also a proof that human are causing the global warming by burning fossil fuels. “I believe that to be "impartial" and "balanced" on global warming means one must take a position like Gore's” ( Roger Ebert).


In my opinion, I like the ideas of Al Gore and the way he stands In front of million of people talking about the global warming he took the place of an alarm that wakes up people telling them them to take care of their earth before destruction of the earth. Also this movie can be played in school so that the children of the coming generation can be aware of what is happening to the earth.


bibliography:


Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." 2 June 2006. .

Furness, Zack. "An Inconvenient Truth." 2006. .