Blog Action Day : Greenhouse Effect and environment

Texto em Português

Imagine a dry and desert place, which temperature is about 500ºC during the day. Imagine a surface covered by rivers of lava and violent storms too. It’s really a true hell! When we watch it, it seems like a star because of its brightness, but actually it’s a planet involved by clouds of gases, originated from an atmosphere composed mainly of anhydride carbonic, nitrogen traces, water vapor, oxygen, sulfuric acid and even though. Do you know what I am talking about? Yes, Earth’s twin planet named Venus!

Venus’s temperature is bigger than Mercury even though being far from the Sun. What’s the reason of this? The reason is the villain called the greenhouse effect, and that villain may be threatening our own planet. This effect is explained because atmosphere of Venus seems cloudy for the infra red radiations due great CO2 concentration (carbonic gas). The heating of Venus’s surface happens because of the penetration of the visible radiation, which causes the emission of the infra-red radiation. When CO2 absorbs this radiation, effect greenhouse comes up. Imagine, for example, a closed car receiving solar radiations that penetrates in the vehicle, the heat doesn’t escape and we feel sultriness due to the accumulation of heat when we’re entering in the car.

This infernal scene can be real and close to us. The amount of CO2 emitted from our vehicles, along with pollution of our industries, and the enormous deforestation made by man, can cause Earth to get to the same end. Global warming (planet’s natural process speeded up by the greed of human beings) is already a reality. The climatic changes are taking place around the world and they’re causing much suffering to the people.

Governments must create a specific legislation to the environment and fiscalize the fulfillment of the laws harshly, as well as encourage science and the technology, in the search for cleaner and cheaper power plants. And what about us? Regular citizens? What we can do?

I am doing my part wherever I am (my work, my daily basis and here, of course). What about you?
You must know where the garbage has to be placed in the most correct way; you must participate more actively of your community, either in the school of your kids, the Church or clubs.
You must know how to use water and the electric energy rationally, even knowing that they are not infinite (and because your wallet will thank you!). Experts say that supplying may suffer a crisis on a next future.
You must know how to choose your representatives better and start to vote in ideas instead of people. You must follow the performance of people you’ve elected and you must always demand political reforms which must be made.
You must fight against corruption in the lesser or bigger levels of the society and stop thinking about yourself, you must start thinking more in your community. You aren’t better that anyone and you are part of the society.
A big reality may happen whenever you start to make small actions!

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