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Konichiwa, My name is Kento Kelley. I am currently a senior student at High Tech High International. I am half Japanese and half American. My favorite hobbies are photography and graphic designing. Please, enjoy this blog about my archived assignments of Government/Sociology.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Yummy Pollution

Ever since the Earth began to turn, nature has always dictated itself to keep equilibrium between the climate changes and global warming of the Earth. Simply using the chemical elements that nature itself disperses out to the atmosphere; water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitride monoxide, regulates the temperature within the earth. But ever since we’ve started the industrial revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, infrastructures of countries worldwide have contributed huge amounts of the chemical elements to the atmosphere thus creating global warming. Those four major chemical elements are all being dumped out to the atmosphere at a much faster rate where the barrier known as global warming that surrounds the earth increases in strength. In doing so, it makes it much harder for the infrared wavelength that is emitted from the earth to leave, thus creating an increase in temperature.
The year is now 2010, and studies today have shown that the Eco-friendly equipment is helping out a lot where it is beneficiary to the earth and the regulation to climate change. The reason why we need to turn towards an Eco-friendly infrastructure is because our industrialized cities in the U.S. like San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York and the international countries like, China, and Japan, are becoming the main causes of pollution. All of the cities in the U.S. have great systems that are used throughout everyday lives, but how are we able to change our infrastructure to sustain our lives when we have programs that creates conflicts to change. A good example is San Diego’s ‘Impact Program’ that was issued in the year of 1993. It clearly states that the program was used "to minimize the negative impacts on small businesses due to large sale public improvements...etc". And so the argument is then exposed as, is the program that has been established for 17 years helping to lessen the contribution of pollution?
International countries and cities have already caught onto the idea to evade pollution and to create a better environment. The first revolutionary step to lessen the contribution of pollution is the city Amsterdam, Dutch also known as the ‘Smart City’. Mark Scott, a reporter for the articles posted for Business Week states, “…first of 1,200 household were gearing up to install an energy saving system that aimed at cutting electricity costs" and also reports that a company NUON states “were in the right place at the right time". If one small city can change, why can’t we change step by step as time goes on? We are capable to at least try to lessen the effects towards global warming and by doing so we can have a chance to preserve the earth at a longer life time than we could imagine.

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