carbon print

To effectively advance protection against environmental degradation, one thing we must be aware of is our carbon foot print. The whole concept of climate change begins from the activities we engage in, and the amount of carbon they emit to the atmosphere. Knowing the kind of activities that emits more CO2 into the air and finding better alternatives for those activities is an essential way of dealing with climate change. Although there are natural ways that CO2 is released to the air and utilized by plants to make food for themselves, its dangers exist when more CO2 is produced than what plants can consume.

Human activities are the major sources of CO2, which is the utmost greenhouse gases among others. Some essential activities that emit CO2 to the atmosphere are transportation consuming electricity, building, deforestation, and agriculture. Electricity generation produces CO2 to the atmosphere through burning of fossil fuel products, which is the major source of electricity worldwide. Building as an industry produces CO2 to air via manufacturing processes, for instance, cement, steel and iron. Besides the production of these materials produces a lot of heat from the industry that also contributes to high temperatures in the atmosphere. Transportation is also another essential contributor to CO2 in the atmosphere. Locomotion using flights, vehicles, trains, ships, and boats all uses fuels that produces CO2 at the end of it all. As said earlier, trees play an important role of consuming CO2 produced in the atmosphere, However, cutting down the trees through deforestation interchanges the system and leave more CO2 in the atmosphere.

Being aware of these sources and cutting down on each is the way to go to reduce the climate change effects. We as Green Ecosystem Initiative focus on protection of ecosystem that is why it is crucial to understand the sources of greenhouse gases so that we can apply measures that would help in controlling these gases to the atmosphere. Consequently, we need to know about how much of our electricity bills, gas bills, the food we eat, mileage on cars, number of flights we take, the items we buy and throw away without recycling, and the clothes we buy. If we can work to cut down on such as an individual, we will surely make a change in our ecosystem and have a healthy environment to live in.