CAUSE, EFFECTS & ANALYSIS

               Unfortunately this will be my last post on my Blog entries on, The Environmental Impacts of Tourism, but I would like to finish this blog with restating the cause and effects of these environmental issues.  I would also like to share my personal feelings and opinions within these matters of what society can do as a whole to help mitigate and minimize these impacts.  If we do not start to take a stand now on laying out strict environmental guidelines and laws within the realms of sustainable development than we will continue to destroy this beautiful world that gives us life and replace it with death.

                It is quite obvious that greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of global warming which is the catalyst to many preceding, contemporary and imminent catastrophic events.  As stated in previous blogs, global warming is the facilitator of receding glaciers, rising sea temperatures (causing the destruction of coral reefs around the world), and the migration of invasive species to new locations.  For example the receding Mt. Kilimanjaro glacier will likely be gone by 2020 (independent.co.uk), The Maldives Islands will fall due to the rising sea levels (guardian.co.uk.com), and polar bears are beginning to migrate to land earlier in the year and leaving later as a result of climate change.

                I personally believe that society as a whole and worldwide, should implement strict laws and regulations regarding the amount of greenhouse gas emissions the one nation is allowed to emit. But also keeping in mind and striving for the lowest amounts of emissions expelled possible.  We need to understand that there will one day be no more oil to burn.  In 100 years we have used 50% of the world’s easily accessible oil reserves (Billy Collins) and have completely relied on oil to make our world turn.  If we ran out of oil tomorrow the world would stop in a halt and fall into complete and utter chaos.  We need to begin using and implementing the new technology we have discovered that does not rely on and result in the depletion of our worlds natural resources.  Some of these new technological advances include electric cars, solar power, wind power, carbon based waste being turned into oil through a process called thermo-depolymerisation, desalination (the process of removing the salt and minerals from sea water), harnessing waves and tides to store energy through turbines and by making paper obsolete with a new electronic paper that can be reused over and over.

I hope you have enjoyed my blogs and hope you managed to learn something new from them! REMEMBER TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY!

The following link is an interesting article/site which inderlines the top 10 emerging environmental technologies that can help get you thinking green! Enjoy

http://www.livescience.com/11334-top-10-emerging-environmental-technologies.html