Is it worth saving energy if that's the case "everything is fine"?There are huge reserves of oil and gas, the world's largest hydroelectric power plant and many atomic reactors.Isn't it really enough?Enough, but you still have to save because ...
International Energy Saved Day was created relatively recently, November 11, 2008. The initiator of the holiday was the environmental network "School Project for the Use of Resources and Energy".
It seems that the children have come up with a vacation, let them have fun, the adults are not interested in it.In fact, the holiday was not invented by children, but by adults and responsible people who care about the fate of humanity and the planet.
Unfortunately, not all of us see the need to save energy, so it is very important that the school project initiated the day of energy saving.If children understand why they save energy, then in the future, adults will not have to persuade adults in resources.
And yet, why?What gives us energy savings?
1. Money
It's all just money.We spend less energy -we pay less for it.Maybe someone grimaces: "Here's another one, let's count money!"But this is just one of the benefits of saving energy.
2. Comfort
A considerable part of the energy costs goes to maintain a comfortable temperature of the house and in the office.In winter - for heating, in summer - for air conditioning.
Properly configured air -conditioning system not only produces energy, but maintains a comfortable "time in the house".In the winter, no one freezes in the summer - it falls out of suffocation.
3. Nature
The share of the "green" renewable sources in global energy production is steadily increasing.But the volumes of "pure" energy are still equal to those we get, burning gas, coal and petroleum products.
By burning hydrocarbons, we throw into the atmosphere a huge number of harmful to all living substances that we suffer from not only us, but also our animals, rivers, forests and lakes.
The less we consume energy, the less pollutes nature, the better our health is, our forests are magnificent and more clean of our ponds.Moreover, our children will be able to see a bunny, stork or deer, not through the zoo bars, but along the forest path, outside the train or car.
4. Climate
The day does not pass so that the media does not report a new hurricane, catastrophic heat, flood or drought.Scientists accuse global warming of this and associate it with increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere.
One of the most powerful pollutants of the atmosphere of carbon dioxide is energy.By reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, we will be able to stop negative climatic processes.
Let skeptics claim that nothing is actually proven that the growth of greenhouse gases may not be the cause of warming.Is this an occasion to abandon the fact that it can harm our planet?Is it too dangerous to wait for reliable evidence?Who will wait for them and who will need them if the return point is not accepted?Certainly not us, not us.
5. Economics and Technology
The less energy for the production of products, the less its price, the less the competitiveness of the goods, the more efficient the economy is.
The dignity consumption of energy stimulates the scientific thought and development of modern technologies.Does anyone remember when American cars stopped watering HIV with gasoline?After the first energy crisis of 1973
Recent technologies provide technological leadership, make the goods even more competitive, increase economic and military security.
6. Children
We all work, have fun, argue about politics and rush with the career ladder.But we live in the name of our children, right?
The less we consume the resources of the planet, the more our children and grandchildren will remain.Isn't it worth saving energy at least for that?