In a documentary produced by the US space programme administration NASA, a clear message was sent to attendees of the Paris Climate Summit-known as COP21. Astronauts and space scientists urged the world to watch over our planet earth, and deeply cautioned the disastrous impact a 2° Celsius warm-up would have on human civilization.
Leaving the dazzling query -Mother Earth has lived for billions of years, survived drastic upheavals and is prepared to evolve after environmental catastrophes, the question always remain if we would be prepared or not?- behind…
COP21 Talks
BBC has reported earlier this week that the main concern is presented in the “Loss and Damage” underdeveloped countries struggle with -which are impacts of climatic distortions that leave-over lots of harmful waste behind- claiming that it is the developed nations’ responsibility to support them with technological know-how of recycling and dispensing: “Loss and damage is the idea that compensation should be paid to vulnerable states for climate-related events that they cannot adapt to.” They went further stating that “While the vulnerable countries believe there are many impacts of climate change that they can adapt to, they have been seeking a mechanism that would compensate them for those events that they cannot cope with. They argue that in the future, the human influence on the climate is likely to lead to more extreme storms and rising sea levels. As such, the developed nations bear a responsibility for the losses and damages that might be caused.”
During the conferences meetings, PM David Cameron announced in his take upon the deal COP21 is scheduled to conclude: “a deal that keeps the 2° alive, a deal with a binding legal mechanism, a deal that has a 5 year review so that we see what we are doing, a deal for the poorest and most vulnerable countries in terms of finance, a deal so that we can measure and verify what happens a deal with the agreement that we make and a deal that transfers technology from the richest countries to the poorest.”
In Action
Denmark has been already applying green policies to reduce carbon emissions, the country puts the year 2050 as its carbon emissions complete cut-off date. If we look into Danish communities, we’ll discover that social behaviors have been progressed to be conscious of the responsibility our race carries to watch over Earth and avoid possible jeopardy. Most Danish cycle their way around town -including governmental officials and PMs- Copenhagen’s road structures are designed to comfort cyclers as much as car drivers -if not more than- most of its citizens are highly aware of global warming and its drastic effects. Enough would be said when the fact that 100 percent of Copenhagen’s waste is used to generate heat and electricity, is mentioned… the entire city runs on electricity from wind generating and other supplementary green sources -like waste and such.
The world needs to look-up to countries like Denmark, a real model to abide by, it is not just achieved through governmental regulations, it has to be planted in the minds of citizens throughout their educational stages. People must change their attitudes towards issues like waste disposal, recycling, carbon emissions, water pollution and many others; manners that if changed, could maintain security for the human race and future generations, as it will also lead a healthy and green environment for generation to come.
Clean Energy Funds worth billions
Government officials and businessmen have raised billions of dollars to support the rise of green energy technologies to resist global warming. Billionaires like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Businessman George Soros have dedicated huge chunks of their fortune to promote clean energy and to provide underdeveloped countries with its technological know-how.
The global warming challenge always remain in the ability of underdeveloped countries to maintain green energy technologies, as it costs much more than tradition resources, and developed countries tend to raise the costs of those machineries to profit from selling them back in underdeveloped countries.
The passionate billionaires attempt to afford poor countries with green energy apparatus to avoid the mounting rise of the atmosphere’s temperature. Bill Gates in his interview with The Hindu, while asked about the ‘climate justice’, commented that he does not know the definition of such term, claiming that the cost of clean energy is too high for underdeveloped countries and these must be feasible approaches to empower such weak economies with such technology. He also added that the COP21’s decisions to cut carbon emissions do not make it any easier for those countries to develop and grow their economies, the vital key is to put huge efforts in the Research and Development (R&D)- which will consecutively lead to a cut in green energy sources costs.
The Break Through Energy Coalition (BEC) was set by Gates and others to solve energy issues, he replied to one of the question saying, “The beauty of the commitment at BEC is that a diverse set of things will be tried. We can try hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon sequestration, there is nuclear fusion and fission. There’s wind energy, but that’s very high up. Instead of solar energy to make electricity we want to look at making gasoline directly, so we don’t have the storage problem. So I would say we have about 15 different paths, so we should back all of them between the various countries.”
Mark Zuckerberg on the other hand, had put 99 per cent of shares to promote clean energy technologies, a brilliant move by the young billionaire to prevent global warming, support underdeveloped countries and save the world. The Facebook CEO announced to donate around $1bn annually for charitable causes, in his statement on social network celebrating his daughter’s birth he said that he would outline his goals to focus precisely on “advancing human potential and promoting equality.”
Yet…
Some critics believe COP21 came-up with inefficient decisions, it had settled on reducing carbon emissions from Europe, but the quandary remains, carbon emission wouldn’t be entirely cut-off as European countries plan to trade it in. Carbon emissions will be cut from Europe, yet in return, it would be sold and used back in eastern parts of the world – back in countries like China and India- which clears out ‘the problem has not yet been solved’.
The cost of green energy resources might be expensive meantime, but when we put into consideration its effect on the long run… it is more logical and sufficient than other traditional resources. Gas or oil is bought from oil-producing countries -with relatively high prices- and are consumed for industrial cycles to keep its pace. Relevantly, green energy technologies are more pricey to maintain, but they simply produce limitless amounts of energy once employed. With a further look into the future, we’ll find that renewable resources appears to be the answer for all our worries -whether Egypt in particular, or the world as a whole.
