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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

My second Inquiry into




How human activity affects the CO2 level

There is a lot to tell you guys so enjoy reading.
Human really affects the CO2 level. Humans started desforestation in large amount which cause less CO2 prodeced could be absorbed and converted into oxygen. Humans made vehicles and transportation that produces CO2 and now there are a lot of cars on the road each day. Some people do not recycle things that could be recycled. Instead they just burn it and they burn it not in the right place. If you burn rubbish the smoke affect the CO2 level. Burning rubbish does not happen in Indonesia but happens all around the world. Majority people in Indonesia does that. Recycling plastic would be a solution to some problems. If you burn plastic that would cause the air that surrounds that area to be poisonus and be contaminated by gas. Eventually the gas in the air turns into CO2. It is like a cycle. Climate change causes many destruction, burned forests, ruined buildings, wreck docks and many more. When something gets burned the level of CO2 increases little by little. The more of climate change happens, the more CO2 produced because of that the stronger climate change is. Trees are cut down to build furniture, paper and the more furniture and paper we bur or use the more demand on the company to chop down mre trees. When there is sunlight trees are able to do photosynthesis. Photosynthesis happens because the existence of sun rays. Without the sun rays like at night trees can't do photosynthesis. Trees in the Amazon are chopped down because human needs more space for the growth of population. The Amazon forests provide more than 10% of the worlds oxygen and now humans are destroying it. It is not a healthy thing. When CO2 reaches the sky it will go down to the ground again when they are mixed in the sky and produces acid rain. Soil that is no longer planted with trees that has been planned by humans to be a farm couldn't be use. The soil will not be that good. Roof of some houses will rusted and can't be used anymore. Plantlife will be destroyed, the water that they absorb from the ground is full of acid because of acid rain. Human have to rebuild their roof that needs wood and more demand to the wood company. More trees are cut down. There is only two choices of human.

1. Cut down trees for the space, growth of human population, wood demands, place to build farmlands and grassland to feed the cows?
OR
2. Don't cut down trees and stop building farmlands, stop making urbanism (massive growth of cities, technology) ?
Hard choice!
Find out and I hope my classmates vote for the question whether humans should pick question 1 or question 2?

Bibliography :

http://www.med.nyu.edu/news_and_views/research/air_pollution.html

http://www.helixcharter.net/department_sites/socialscience/honors_geo/student%20work/Period%203%20websites/t3haukvth/t3haukairpollution.html#images

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_sc/polluted_cities

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=carbon+dioxide+oxygen+cycle&rs=1&fr2=rs-top&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fp_ip=ID&fr=yfp-t-501

http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/impacts/index.html

1 comment:

Jane in Java said...

You wrote "Some people do not recycle things that could be recycled. Instead they just burn it and they burn it not in the right place. If you burn rubbish the smoke affect the CO2 level. Burning rubbish does not happen in Indonesia but happens all around the world."
Hmmm, Alto, I see people burning rubbish every where in Indonesia! Just drive down the toll road and you can see the burning rubbish evidence every 20 metres!