Submitted by: Submitted by caylacecak1
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Category: Science and Technology
Date Submitted: 05/24/2011 11:43 AM
The conservation of energy is essential for our future survival. We need energy
resources to sustain and continue to live as human beings. We don’t seem to realize how
much we depend on energy in our environment, and our economical and social ways of
life. We as individuals and as a society need to work towards preserving our renewable
and non-renewable energy resources.
Our environment is effected by creating and using energy from burning fossil
fuels. When we use fossil fuels for heat and electricity, and oil to fuel our cars we change
the composition of the earth's atmosphere and altered our climate in such extremes that it
has resulted in the beginning of Global Warming. Global Warming is the result of the
earth heating up due to greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, water vapor, nitrous oxide, and
methane) trap heat and light from the sun in the earth’s atmosphere. The more efficiently
we can use energy, the less we need of it to maintain our lifestyle. They more we get our
government involved setting laws and regulations the higher the chances are that we will
succeed in our preservation and alternative efforts to conserve energy.
Economically saving energy can be cost effective, after energy saving techniques
and equipment is researched, and implemented on a large scale. We are slowly beginning
to focus on conserving our fossil fuels and look for new means of energy, because we are
finally realizing that energy are a commodity which we cannot afford to waste. We are
also becoming more aware of new technology that can help to preserve, and even
generate more energy.
Socially we can benefit from energy conservation by creating significant numbers
of jobs in energy-related services such as manufacturing and installation of energy saving
equipment. Moreover, homes and workplaces would be made easier and cheaper to heat,
greatly improving standards of living and comfort. We can really gain socially as humans
when we learn new ways to...