Newsletter # 8 : Need to do more and more efforts

I am really thankful to you for your warm support and for being helpful for me in this cause. Surely if anyone of you have some useful material to share with others, Plz do send us or post it on the wall of the group so that others may know about it properly.

One more thing that I want to explain in the following message, that is about the Sense of Responsibility. We all have lack of sense of resposibility. The essence of my words you can get in the discussion below.

If you increase your personal petrol or gas consumption for this year by say 1’000 litres because you use the car more often, will this lead to natural disasters? And if yes, where? Nobody will be able to take you to the court, because it is not possible to prove a direct relation between your increased yearly consumption of fuels and a drought in Africa. This does not change the fact, however, that the CO2 emission produced by your car does indeed contribute to the global warming. No doubt, you and I are responsible for the climate change, too.

The following testimonies are typical:

“Me alone, I cannot change anything, why should I then change my personal behavior?
I respect the laws, I don’t do anything illegal. I am not against your saving energy, but leave me in peace with your ideas.
My energy requirement is modest. I won’t change before the big polluters have changed their behavior.
These declarations share a fundamentally wrong assumption that we are not fully responsible for what we do. But the contrary is true: We are indeed fully responsible for everything we do or do not do! The fact that we don’t get fined or taken into prison for certain deeds does by far not mean that these deeds do not have a big impact on our personal future life”.

Well youngman!

There are some ways to prevent the earth from disappearing like, reduce using the electricity at home by turning off the lights and TV at night when it is time for bedtime. Another one, do not throw any garbage either cups, bottles, and papers into the river that will contaminate the river. Be aware to use too much gasoline if the store is only three or four blocks away from your house. Recycling any items that can be recycles or drop it off at any recycling area.

Whenever you burn fossil fuels like petrol, gas, wood, etc, you inevitably generate the gas CO2 called carbon dioxide. This large emission of carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming and all its side effects. Our goal must be to burn less fossil fuels for heating and for engines.

As a very general rule of thumb, you can can assume that travelling by car does produce at least 3 times as much carbon dioxide as travelling the same distance by public transportation (train, bus, tram).

Flying does produce about the same quantity of carbon dioxide as if you’d drive the same distance by car. But the negative effects caused by the emissions in the high atmosphere are 3 times higher than those from the emissions of the car.

You can draw the following conclusions for global warming effects:

It is always best to travel by public transportation
Travelling by car harms the environment 3 times as much as travelling by public transportation
Travelling by plane (flying) harms the environment 3 times as much as travelling by car and 9 times as much as travelling by public transportation (train, bus).

In the start-up phase, fluorescent lights use more energy than when they are running continuously, so it is not a good advice to keep switching them on or off every few seconds.

However if you don’t need a fluorescent light for more than 1-2 minutes, it actually saves energy to switch it off. Modern fluorescent lights, with narrower tubes (T8 or T15) and electronic starters generally should left on unnecessarily for no more than a minute or so.

So Chap stay with me for spreading this message and for making the people conscious and to arise the Sense of Responsibility.The consequences of our irresponsibility would be the diminish of our world one day that we don’t wish.