Government and its policies play a crucial role in the contribution of a country in tackling the problem of global warming. Policies adopted by governments should focus on reducing energy consumption mainly oil consumption and emission of Green House Gasses. Kyoto is an international agreement that aims at reducing carbon emissions by industrialized nations. The United States having the largest per capita emission of GHG has refused to join this treaty. Unless all nations contribute and agree to try and do their part to reduce global warming, this problem can never be solved. Imposing taxes is another way to keep a check on energy consumption. Policies should also focus on afforestation, waste land development, promotion of renewable resources and abatement of air pollution.
It is the developing countries whose low emissions have made it possible to sustain high pattern of energy consumptions by industrialized nations in the past, present and also in the future. For example, in India, traditional practices help reduce global warming – for instance, in rural areas which constitute three-fourths of the country’s population, people implement simple practices in their daily lives like drying clothes in the sun, washing utensils and clothes manually, less use of processed and frozen food, less machinery in lifestyle and using biomass as a fuel for cooking purposes contribute to the country’s low emission of green house gasses. The tradition of passing stuff through generations which include household items, clothing and furniture is a means of re-using, recycling and conservation of nature and its resources.
In summary, encouragement of cultural and healthy practices, policies by the government and institutions help reduce global warming. It’s not just the duty of the government to frame policies, to really succeed in this attempt to save our planet, every individual has to realize and help save the earth by not just following one of the above methods but trying to adapt as many practices they can in their daily lives.
In your second paragraph, you state that in developing countries, due to the use of simple and older machinery, GHG are reduced.I do not completely agree to this point. In fact, I think it is the old and primitive machinery which causes more GHG. For example, take the car: In developed countries, there are certain minimum mileage specifications which are usually not implemented in developing countries.
ReplyDeleteOn the whole, your essay is really good and describes the cultural aspects which can help global warming.
Divya, while you have acceptable content, sentence structure is often clumsy. In paragraph 2, for instance, the part beginning "people implement simple practices" lacks parallel structure. It is a very long sentence with many ideas, but you must still maintain parallel structure for clarity.
ReplyDeleteLater in the paragraph, you wrote "The tradition of passing stuff through generations which include household items, clothing and furniture". This means that household items, clothing and furniture are examples of generations. The correct structure is as follows:
The tradition of passing things, such as household items, clothing and furniture, through generations
Notice also that I replaced "stuff" with "things". because "stuff" is informal.