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Why I chose this topic:
Greenhouse Gases… Yes, those quiet but threatening emissions. I bet you have heard of them, but incase you haven’t, let me explain how they work. GHG’s trap heat in our atmosphere. They produce levels of ozone that are quite high and can create various pollutants in our air that in the end, will worsen cardiovascular and/or respiratory diseases.
Climate change is happening right before our eyes and soon what we have done to our planet will be irreversible. A massive part of this problem comes from Greenhouse Gas Emissions being produced. Here, in Canada this issue is growing like no other. With rapidly increasing population and need for things like electricity, this is no surprise. For this assignment I focused it around the GHG’s that cause the Earth’s temperature to get warmer than ever.
Ultimately we need to try our best to reduce our usage of electricity, transportation, forestry, agriculture and etc. Doing so will allow GHG emissions annually, to hopefully decrease. We can find new ways to adapt in order to still be able to produce GHG emissions for necessities but do so efficiently. In other words, we should all begin digging deeper and seeing what we can do to replace GHG emissions. Each year we should hope to see a downwards slope of GHG emission numbers. Therefore, we will feel motivated to keep moving along this path and creating change in a way very beneficial for not just our country but the whole globe.
I have always had a passion for learning about our climate and fighting for ways to keep it safe and closest to its original nature/form as possible. Canada is an amazing country with an incredible environment which I know everyone wants to preserve as best possible. As mentioned earlier, because humans are slowly claiming everything for ourselves and not thinking twice about our dear planet, things keep getting worse. If we keep pushing this issue back, we may not notice it until it is too late. This would end up being the biggest problem of all. Everyone must work together and in unison. We can educate one another on what we can do individually to help stop these dangerous emissions from taking over.
Above I have created a visual representation of data courtesy of climatewatchdata.org. At the top I added a city signifying where GHG emissions are present. Everytime I walk by any busy city, I see thick, cloudy emissions coming out of chimney’s. I always stop and think to myself how badly they are affecting our planet. Lower down, to showcase the bulk of the data found, I placed a pie chart overtop of the Earth on fire. I think this is pretty self-explanatory. Our planet could quite literally be on fire or heated to the maximum if we do not start to control these emissions. This image makes me sad but I would be lying if I said it isn’t possible in the near future. Continuing on, we have clipart png’s of different climate change factors. I have again, listed the percentages and numbers more boldly along with each year so they can catch the eye easier. Finally, I have added an additional graph to showcase the data with. I thought as though this graph could add even more clarity to what I was trying to represent.
It is clear that in 2005 we had the highest emissions (out of the 6 years I used.) However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t skyrocket and reach highs later on. If I had to make a prediction, I think that 2020 would definitely have the highest emissions so far… However, we do not have that data quite yet. What makes me think deeply is how much lower the emissions used to be. This provides a message. We were definitely better off a few decades ago and need to get back to the old numbers which were much lower.
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