Conservation of Energy

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...