Earth's tears

In Stephen Leahy’s article “Climate change: Chemical lobby weakening ozone treaty.” He claims that our environment is getting worse that mostly is harmed by humans; however, humans are trying to solve the problem and they already find the ways. According to the research, scientists states that our living environment is mostly destructed by some damaging chemicals, such as CO2 and CFC, which can cause global warming and ozone hole. Also there are more people are suffering from skin cancer because ozone is only can stop the UV. However CO2 and CFC are produced from humans’ important demands like cars, air conditioners and refrigerants. It shows the commercial profit and movements play a role in adding environment problems. Therefore, some countries, departments and scientists have taken action. For instance, the US and Canada published “Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer” for prevention, and many scientists have succeeded in using other chemicals in place of CFCs and are able to find more solutions. In fact, the environment problem is decaling.

         Our environment is getting worse, because the commercial interests always being the first because our daily demands. The climate became warming obviously in recent years. The great quantity of cooling systems and cars are used nowadays and we take many profits from it. However, we produced lots of damaging chemicals, which can destroy our environment. The climate became warmer and the huge ozone hole over Antarctica. Only in Unite State, over one million people got skin cancer and most of them will die (CITE). Someday, maybe the earth cannot afford us anymore, the. But it is not too late to find the solutions for keeping us living loner. We have already done it well and kept developing it. The author mentions many facts in his article that some countries have signed protocol for preventing the problems and the less damaging chemicals have been replaced the damaging chemicals successfully. But that is not enough, we should do more on it even though it will be hard.

           The economy is worldwide, and communications technologies have connected people all over the world. The environment destruction is no longer a local problem, but it is global. For example, the oceans are connected in the whole earth. If there is one nation that makes the pollution to the ocean, it would affect other areas. In fact, the ocean seems like our huge dumping place, even though we cannot live without it. People create a quantity of garbage each day, then put if into the ocean. Until one day, the ocean couldn’t afford our trash anymore; it would be too late even though we take any action. 

  Prevention is now only the most effective remedy of dealing with serious environment problem. Unite States and Canada has signed an agreement of prevention, which is called “Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.” This protocol supports to reduce the ozone depletion and carbon dioxide produced. Paul A. Newman said the ozone layer would have been destroyed by 2050 without this agreement (CITE). If the ozone hole is getting bigger, people couldn’t stay outside for a long time because of sunburn and it will lead more skin cancer. It is impossible to repair the problem completely, but we should develop well on preventive measures.

 Use the ozone-friendly chemicals to replace the damaged chemicals is an effective method. The ozone-damaging chemicals, such as CFC, were often used for cooling system before and even now in some countries. However, scientists have already found new chemicals to take place of CFC, such as HCFC and HFC. The degree of the ozone hole has been declined. HFC couldn’t destroy the ozone layer, but it will cause the greenhouse gases, so it has been banned in some countries. For this reason, scientists are still trying to find more green chemicals to replace the destructive chemicals.

 Planting trees is the best solution of preventive measure. The greenhouse gases are mostly influenced by CO2, most of which came out from cars and air conditioners. We cannot live without these tools. But the basic and useful thing we can do is planting more trees. As we know, the leaves not only absorb the CO2 and dust, release oxygen, but also change desertification sometimes. Besides, protecting the forests is also important except for trees planting.

 Nature gave us a lot of resources and we took the most benefits from it, but we should look about what we gave back. We have to protect our living environment. Though the problem has already existed, preventing is better than taking no actions. Nowadays, more and more commercial departments advocated and crated a “green economy,” such as “ozone-friendly chemicals” and other green products. I believe that human beings can help sustains the earth for living longer with responsibility.    

Reference:

Leahy, S. (2008, September.1). Climate Change: Chemical lobby weakening ozone treaty. Inter Press Service. Retrieved May 19, 2009,   

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