GREAT IDEAS TO FIGHT POLLUTION

 

Technological progress is the application of scientific discoveries to production processes. Progress means that production costs are brought down or that new markets are born. Indeed, it is precisely the entrepreneurs who seek to invest in scientific research through an innovative spirit.

5 WAYS TO COOL THE EARTH

When we hear about global warming we worry about it, but rarely feel guilty. We believe that our contribute can’t really change the situation and we think – or we like to think – that our planet’s destiny isn’t in our hands. But, of course, this isn’t true: we are ruining our planet and it’s our duty to save it.

Here are 5 ways in which each of us can contribute to slow global warming and preserve the Earth.

JUST STOP OIL

 

         

               

On October 14th, two Just Stop Oil activists entered the National Gallery in London to throw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” before sticking their hands to the museum wall. The striking gesture went around the world bringing the spotlight on the environmental movement which, despite its recent creation, has been making headlines in the United Kingdom for months, not without criticism. 

IS THIS THE RIGHT WAY TO PROTEST?

 

Climate change is alarming nowadays and a lot of people are committed to the environmental cause. But these days, these people have turned into rioters and are definitely crossing the line.

 Watch what happened to Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery in London. 

5 ENDANGERED ANIMALS

 

  

 

Every day the destruction of habitats, illegal trade, poaching, pollution, climate change endanger the species of our planet more and more. Thousands of animals are seriously at risk of extinction: this is the constant denunciation of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), which every year releases the Red List of animals at risk of extinction. 

THE 10 MOST POLLUTED PLACES IN THE WORLD

 

Travelling around the world is something that makes us know many beautiful places, like the Hawaii Islands, the Caribeans, California, or cities like Rome, London or Paris. These places  are really beautiful aren’t they? But the Earth has two sides. If we can see a lot of amazing places, we can also see very polluted ones, spread all over the world. Pollution has been caused by humans during the latest centuries, because of the industrial development.

NEW DELHI, FIRST LOCKDOWN FOR POLLUTION

  

Hi everyone! Today I am going to tell you about something worrying happening in India. In the city of New Delhi, in India, the government declared the first lockdown because of pollution. The main causes are the levels of pollution of the air recorded at the beginning of November.

THE GOLD RUSH IN THE OCEAN

 

Lately at school we've talked a lot about the rare earth and other metals both from a human rights perspective (with the topic of child labour, for example) and from a more scientific point of view with our Chemistry teacher. What caught my attention is that their extraction cannot only happen in the mainland and, in this article,  I will explain how the extraction of metals could also be a serious worry  for the ‘’health ‘’ of the oceans.   

JAKARTA IS SINKING

 

With more than 10 million inhabitants the Indonesian megacity is facing the effects of land subsidence and sea level rise . A lethal combo that along with the Indonesian climate facilitates floods .

"The potential for Jakarta to be submerged isn't a laughing matter," says Heri Andreas, who has studied Jakarta's land subsidence for the past 20 years at the Bandung Institute of Technology.

FUKUSHIMA'S WASTE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET

 

Japan is going to release Fukushima treated radioactive water into sea

Hello everyone!

I will talk about a fact that is the cause of discussions today. The water used to cool the reactors after the dramatic accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant will be thrown into the sea.

 Thousands of tanks full of radioactive liquid , for a total of 1.25 million tons, will therefore end up in the ocean . This was decided by the Japanese government, on the morning of Tuesday 13 March.

THE PROS AND CONS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

 

In the world there are many energy sources, but I decided to talk about one of them, nuclear energy. In the last ten years  humans have been trying to save the planet, modifying  their lifestyle. For example, a solution is to produce electric and Hybrid cars to try to decrease the air pollution but this isn’t enough. Many energy sources produce CO2.  So scientists want to find an alternative type of energies that are not pollutant for the environment. 

WORLD WATER CRISIS

 

 

Water is the main source of life and without it we cannot survive. Nowadays water seems to us an inexhaustible good and we are used to wasting a lot of it, but in 2040 most of the world won’t have enough water to meet demand year-round. We’re at a real inflection point where if we’re not careful, we may get out ahead of our ability to manage it.

ETHICAL ASPECTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS FROM THE CLASSICS TO PRESENT-DAY ISSUES

Nature is clearly rebelling. Natural disasters and cataclysms have been more and more frequent and their brutality has increased in recent years. We ourselves have certainly had a taste of frightening scenarios  noticing either too hot weather or rather stormy winds which inevitably have been haunting our lives.

The only certainty we have is that this impressive upheaval is due to an enormous industrial activity on the planet. Our world is characterised by a frenzy to make more and more money: at the same time, mankind has been increasingly producing rubbish, which has the worrying feature of being indestructible. 

Therefore, everyone can draw a precise conclusion and recognize capitalism as the reason of today’s issues: the majority of well-to-do people owns more than what they really need.

Most of us have bumped into Greta Thunberg's protest surfing the Net or watching the news. She's  a 16-year-old environmental activist who, despite her tender age, decided to commit herself to this massive issue. As she said in a recent speech, "On climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed”, since we have never treated the climate crisis as a real crisis. Unfortunately, these troubles exist  and are endangering our lives. 

If the economic system is responsible for our dangerous reality, we ought to start using our wealth and our advancemments in science and technology in order to find strategies to preserve life on Earth.

THE BLACK CAP

GLOBAL WARMING 

In 1896 Svante Arrhenius and Thomas Chamberlin evaluated that human activities would provoke an increase of global average temperature due to the production of high quantity of carbon dioxide. This prediction was ignored until the 1980s when the global annual mean temperature curve started rising steeply. Then, many scientists started pointing at it as the main cause of the global warming.