To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Is the Only Option

It is possible to reduce greenhouse gas if we are willing to do the things that will help reduce emissions. Things like using a different kind of energy, solar for instance. It isn’t a matter of “us” against “them” as much as it is a matter of having gotten ourselves as a species into a corner. We have an infrastructure that is based on a lot of pollution. We can’t simply change everything in one day. But if the government would step in and change certain standards instead of listening to financial lobbyists quite as much, then things would change, albeit gradually.

To reduce greenhouse gas, we must reduce emissions from the vast numbers of automobiles that we have on the road today, not to mention trucks, factories and all forms of machinery. Automobiles, of course, are the most prevalent. Why, then, aren’t we powering them with a cleaner kind of energy, solar for instance? The reason is big business.

It may seem like a monumental task that we’ll never be able to attain, but the effort to reduce greenhouse gas will make a difference. Even if we can’t reverse the damage that has been done, we can work hard to reduce emissions now and stop the damage in its tracks. For every person who realized the importance of alternative energy sources and chooses to reduce the size of their gaseous footprint, we’ve taken one step closer to eliminating the greenhouse effect. It may be slow, but progress will be made. It’s up to each one of us to make changes ourselves, and to educate those around us to the danger.

Using different kinds of energy, solar for instance, to power our vehicles and our houses will go a long way toward cleaning up the environment. But if we are to reduce emissions significantly, we really need to reduce the number of cars on the road. That’s difficult to do, since our cities have developed in such a way so that a person can’t live an independent life unless he has his own car. You can’t even have one or two cars per family anymore-if there are six people living in a house, chances are, there are six automobiles there. Many people can’t even get to work without a car. We can’t reduce greenhouse gas significantly until we get to the root of the problem.

So in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas, we will need to change the infrastructure of our entire society. We have to take care of the corporations, as silly as that sounds, but they are the ones making the automobiles. They aren’t just going to go away quietly or lose millions just to make a cleaner car. They do things the way they do them because it’s cheaper. One solution is to have the government step in with new regulations and force them to-but they won’t because big business donates big bucks. So it’s a problem. But it’s more of a political problem than a resource issue. We have the wherewithal-we just need the will.