Mercy Corps Climate Change - JS

MercyCorps!

I think some tangible solutions in our everyday life to mitigate the effects of climate change in our everyday community and around the globe are to recycle, reduce car emissions, use reusable energy sources, and picking up trash around our environment. If we can do any of these, our world will be a better place.

By recycling we save on landfill space and the smoke that goes into the air when burning trash. Recycling can also save money because we won’t fill our trash up to be hauled off. I think we could also reuse the stuff instead of recycling it. We could use tires for tire swings, or steps, or even planters. We could build more convenient recycling plants for things like batteries, florescent light bulbs, latex pant, oil, and stuff like that. that way they don’t get thrown in land fills that are a cause of pollution.

Reducing car emissions means to drive cars less or to have less cars driving. When we drive our cars the gas we use goes into the air changing our air temperature. To reduce driving, we could ride our bike or carpool to wherever we’re going (like work or school). Car emissions are very bad for the ozone layer and help in causing the destruction of the ozone layer.

To use reusable energy we could use hybrid cars so we can at least use less gas. Also we can reduce the amount of power plants and replace them with wind power energy producers. The power plants put out stuff that destroys our ozone lair, witch makes the planet hotter. We could put the windmills in large fields and with city's like LA, that don't have those, we can put them on top of the big buildings. We could also pick up trash and Recycle more.The pollution we make also harms the ozone lair, witch causes global warming.

So I think if we ride our bikes, use windmills, pick up trash, recycle, reuse, and widmills more and use cars and power plants less, we could change the climate for the better.