Wednesday, July 16, 2008
To get started,Basically, everyone who learns science knows that our Earth is the ONLY planet where life is found and have conditions suitable for life. It is the 3rd Planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth and blahblahblah) from the Sun and Earth was formed about 4.54 billion years ago. The outer layer of the Earth that blocks harmful UV rays is called the Ozone Layer. This useful outer layer also traps greenhouse gases, producing warmth just of enough temperature for humans and animals.Unfortunately, over the years, our needs have changed and so has life. Things have mostly become more high-tech and jobs are done more easily thanks to machines. Since life has improved drastically from the past, the damage that is done is worse than what used to be. Most of the things we do now, produces carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases. One of the main causes is incineration of rubbish. The plastic bags we use to throw our rubbish in is non-biodegradable. Which means it would take about 100 years or so to degrade and with Singapore's big amount of daily rubbish, imagine what our Earth would be like! And that's just Singapore itself. What about other countries? It would be FAR WORSE! And, plastic is partly petroleum. It produces a REALLY FOUL SMELL when burnt and it also produces chemicals THAT HARM THE HUMAN BODY WHEN TAKEN IN. But, by now, people who are curious to know would be asking, why do we even use plastic? Why don't we use paper or styrofoam? Well, plastic is light and waterproof, unlike paper, which tears easily upon contact with water. Styrofoam doesn't tear and it IS light like paper and plastic and buoyant but it is sort of poisonous to young children and can't be gotten rid of unless we use a special chemical and that would be FAR TOO EXPENSIVE.Yeah, I shall stop here. Will continue ASAP! Peace out, yo:)
Environmentalist Blogged:6:54 PM
Monday, July 14, 2008
Hellohello.
Hahha. Yes, this is the first ever post.
And yes, I AM lame by creating this blog.
It won't work but I'll give it a shot all the same.
Well, basically this blog was created to raise awareness about
-Global Warming
-Greenhouse effect
-The damage alr done to the Earth
-What you can do to help make a difference.
So yeah, I won't really go into detail in each aspect but I do hope you take this seriously.
As in, yeah, I'm sure we can have fun and stuff but please take what I'm saying seriously (except for the "hahah" part & all the jokes & stuff la)
If you think that there are some bits I need to improve on/anything you want to see/share, do email me at black_crumpler@yahoo.com.sg
Meanwhile, I'll do my best to keep this blog from dying.
Hahah. Peace Out, yo(:
Environmentalist Blogged:8:57 PM
