ENVIRONMENT

Good morning everybody! First at all, thanks for coming.. Im Juan

and Im going to speak about the environment. At first, I am going to
speak about the pollution. Secondly, I am going to speak about thee
climate change. Finally, I am going to say some friendly ideas for the
environment.
When we say pollution we are saying if there is something added to
the environment that is harmful or poisonous to living things. Then it
can be some artificial substance, like mercury oxide used in some
industry, or a natural substance in an abnormal high concentration,
like a high concentration of nitrogen in a river.
Nowadays, all the countries are increasing their pollution, and if we
are not able to find a way to solve that quickly the consequences can
be irreversible. Besides with that behavior we are destroying our
planet. That happens because we are increasing the greenhouse gases
on the atmosphere. First at all, I am going to explain what is the
greenhouse effect with the help of a video (poer o video). The
greenhouse effect is caused by the long wave radiation, when it enters

on the earth, and after reach the surface its reflected and reflected
again on the atmosphere for the greenhouse gases, specially important
is the carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour. That produces a
global warming, if it doesnt happen the temperature of the Earth
would be -18C. The problem appears when we increase the amount
of the greenhouse gases because the we increase the global warming
too, and that its one of the reasons for the climate change.
We have to know that a climate change its something natural,
the problem now its that we are accelerating that process, this way
many of the species can disappear because they are not able to live
with the new conditions. That species can include us because that loss
of biodiversity makes worst our life conditions.
Nevertheless, every day we can do many things to avoid reaching that
situation. First, we have to determine our impact; we can do that with
the eco footprint. The eco footprint is typically measured in area of
wilderness or amount of natural capital consumed each year. A
common way of estimating footprint is the area of wilderness of both

land and sea needed to supply resources to a human population. This

includes the area of wilderness needed to assimilate human waste.
After that, we can do many things to reduce our eco footprint.
For example, we can use the bike instead the car to go work to reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide. Another idea friendly with the
environment its using renewable energy sources instead fossil fuels
energy sources. For example change the gasoline for eolic energy.
Another example is use efficient electronich devices and switch off
the lights when we neednt.
Finally, I think that if everybody helps we can make a better place to
live and leave a better home to our sons. Thank you very much. Do
you have some questions?