HOW TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF ENERGY CRISIS?
Man employs technology to meet his needs
or maintain his standard of living. However,today’s high technology uses so
much energy that soon all our resources will be exhausted.Without such energy,
industrial production will decrease, agricultural output will drop,transport
will be restricted, and standard of living will decline. In other words, the
world is on the verge of an energy crisis unless certain measures are taken.
The two most commonly proposed solutions to this global problem are reducing
the energy waste and developing cheap and convenient energy.
The first solution, reducing the amount
of energy waste, is possible to do in a variety of ways.Some of these methods
are to improve the efficiency of appliances and vehicles and to encourage
people to use more public transportation, bicycle. Such methods would certainly
mean more energy saved. Nevertheless, such efficiency and conservation methods
are only temporary solutions and do not answer the question what will happen
when we have run out of fossil fuels. Besides, not all nations are aware of any
recycling or efficiency methods.Neither do they have the technology and money
to implement these methods.
The second and a more reasonable
solution is using a cheap and convenient alternative energy. This is what
scientists have been working on for years. Such sources as solar energy,wind
power and wave power have proved to be insufficient or inefficient. It is only
nuclear power that remains to be the sole alternative energy to scarce fossil
fuels and to meet the world’s growing energy requirement. To illustrate, it is
possible to obtain 3 weeks of electricity for a city with a population of 1000,
using 20 tonnes of nuclear energy, whereas 120.000 tonnes of coal are required
to generate the same amount of energy. Unfortunately, it is true that nuclear
plants pose risks to the environment and people. However, the advantages of
nuclear energy outweighs its drawbacks because nuclear plants are not only
economical but
also more efficient in comparison to our
finite sources.
In conclusion, since power demand is
increasing while our sources have been decreasing steadily, it is essential
that a permanent and efficient solution be implemented to maintain our standard
of living. Reducing energy could be a possible solution but it can only extend
the life of fossil fuels, which will inevitably run out in time. Therefore, it
is necessary to exploit the energy stored in the atom. This provides a long-term
and economical solution to the problem.If we address the problem with
short-sighted solutions, their long-term consequences are bound to be very
undesirable.
Obesity in Children
The last years in the whole world, the obesity in children has been increasing in an alarming way. Nowadays, many countries are trying to do something to make their children’s life healthier. Obesity affects children psychologically and physically. That is why we need to change this situation. The problem of obesity in children can be solved by raising awareness among parents, providing an exercise program for elementary school, and doing a nutritional culture at an early age.
There are many things that we can do to stop obesity, but the most important is to raise awareness among parents. Parents affect their children a lot, and they shape children’s future. This starts at the early ages of children, even when they are small babies. Generally, parents want their children to eat more than enough. However, this causes children to acquire wrong eating habits at the early childhood and affects their whole life. When children are born, parents should be informed about the healthiest eating style for their children.
Another solution is an exercising program. It should be implemented in
elementary school as a complement to the nutritional culture for children. This
program must arouse a sport spirit in them through sport clubs, which are going
to be free, but these activities will be obligatory in public schools and with
a minimum of 4 hours per week. It is certain that this can work.
The
other important thing to do is creating a nutritional culture at an early age.
That is to implement in elementary school certain rules about the kind of food
that can be sold, such as just fruit and nutritious meals. It is difficult to
achieve this goal, but it is not impossible with the help of the government.
As we saw, obesity in children can be solved by making parents more aware of the problem, taking action in the nutritional education of children, and in the way that they see sports. As a result, children in the world are going to grow healthier and with a different mentality about what they should and shouldn’t eat and what they have to do to keep their body and mind healthy.
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