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For my Eva Olsson blog i did a youtube video.

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KEEP OUR WORLD ALIVE

For this week’s blog, I decided to write about three ways we can all help the world’s environment by doing simple things in our daily lives.

1. The first way we can help the environment is by taking shorter showers. A lot of us might take showers up to 30 minutes long (I confess – sometimes I can go even longer). By taking a 10-minute shower we can save many litres of water. Water is one of the world’s most precious resources and we save both the fresh water supply and on energy when we cut down on our water use. The shower is one of the places where teenagers use the most water and by significantly reducing our daily time in the shower we can have a big effect on our total water usage. Some people even go as far as cutting back to a single short shower per week. This may seem like going too far, but if you can stand the smell you will help the planet!

2. As you know a lot of grocery stores now charge $0.05 for each plastic grocery bag. They are doing their part to help the environment, by charging for bags so to try and reduce our use of them. Plastic bags are produced from petroleum and the billions of plastic grocery bags produced and used each year wastes the planet’s precious petroleum supply. Plastic bags are also very hard to recycle and they add up to a big environmental pollution source. We all can easily help to reduce our use of plastic grocery bags by either using reusable fabric grocery bags instead of plastic bags, or by taking back your used plastic bags and reusing them many times over.

3. Our uncontrolled use of energy is one of our biggest current problems. Those of us living in the developed world use 5 to 10 times the amount of energy as people in the developing world. Finding a truly sustainable energy supply is still not in view and the burning of fossil fuel for energy production is killing our planet through global warming. It’s really important that all of us find daily ways to cut our energy usage. Some of the most important ways of cutting energy use are small, but they add up to great savings over time. One way each of us can help cut energy use is to make a habit of turning off the lights in every room we leave every time we leave it. Reducing our electricity use by turning off lights in empty rooms may seem like a small thing, but it really adds up over a year. If we all made this a habit we could greatly reduce our national energy use. Also remember to turn all the lights off in your house when you leave for a family vacation.

By doing these 3 simple things each day we can help our world reduce its total energy waste, petroleum use and pollution production. Reducing our energy use and pollution production is critical because of the rising global CO2 levels. Increasing CO2 levels is causing an increase in the surface temperature of the earth and this will cause very damaging change to our planet’s climate and oceans. If each of us could do small acts everyday like taking shorter showers, using reusable or used grocery bags, and by turning off room lights when we leave the rooms, we can have a very positive effect on the world’s environment. Little steps taken everyday can add up to a big changes if we only try.

Did You Know???

Don't you find it weird if American's made this video, yet they are making fun of themselves. If Americans' are saying that they are stupid then how could they come up with all of these statistics? The internet, in the next year the computer will be smarter than a human brain. For some of you it may be hard to believe, but its true. Soon china will be the number one english speaking country in the world. Even though some countries main language is english??? Does this make any sense to you???

If you where in China you would be one in a million, but in the USA there's 1300 other people just like you. Is India really smarter then the USA??? How are we supposed to know if these statistics are true??? As the internet is getting larger more resources are created, but many may be false. Possible the people who made this video could have been using false resources.