Earth, a planet full of life!

Earth is a planet with 4.6 billion years. Scaling this time down to 46 years, its just like we only exist for 4 hours and the industrial revolution for only a minute to this planet. In this few time, mankind was capable of create disasterous environmental problems. These environmental problems can extinguish a big part of life on the planet. Now, in order to help the Earth to be a better world, we must save it!

This trailer gives us an idea about the environmental problems that are occurring now and what will happen if we don't do nothing about it.

Earth and the Education

The importance of education in the environment:

We all know that our planet is in danger, and all because of us! In order to save the Earth from our bad actions, we should prepare Earth's future generation giving them a very good and complete education about Earthling Environment at school. If we insist in the study of our planet, we will understand a big part of our mistakes that are destroying the Earth and what should we do to prevent it. If we do so, our future generation may learn more about it and create some new ways to save mother Earth and ensure, thanks to the knowledge acquired on schools, the continuation of life on the planet.

The Day After Tomorrow - trailer

The movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' shows how destructive nature can be if we don't respect it.

Natural Catastrophes

Our World is at constant unbalance. This unbalance is caused by the scarce of energy resources, by pollution and by global warming. These aspects will origin other global problems like the desertification and the ice melting, which in turn will unbalance even more the Earth and finally lead to Natural Catastrophes.

Different kinds of Natural Catastrophes:

- Hurricanes

- Earthquakes

- Volcanic Eruptions

- Tsunamis

- Typhoons

- Floods

Natural Catastrophes are growing with climate change and if we don't do all we can to take care of mother Earth like it did with us for all these years, the nature most destructive force will ensure the disappearence of many earthling lifes and respectives habitats.

It's time to act, don't wait for tomorrow because there may be no tomorrow! Mother Earth is counting on us!

Curiosity:

Difference between Typhoons and Hurricanes: Although both are destructive nature forces driven by the wind, Typhoons come from the oceans, while Hurricanes are generated on the soil.

Desertification

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting primarily from human activities and influenced by climatic variations. It's also a failure of the ecological succession process. A major impact of desertification is biodiversity loss and loss of productive capacity.

Causes:

- Overcultivation;

- Overgrazing;

- Desforestation;

- Poor irrigation practices.

Energy Resources

Nowadays people use electric power to almost everything. To generate that electrical power, Energy Resources are needed.



There are two different kinds of energy resources:


- Renewable Energy Resources:



- Wind Energy

- Solar Energy

- Water Energy

- Biomass Energy

- Geothermal Energy





- Non-Renewable Energy Resources:



- Coal

- Natural Gas

- Oil

- Nuclear Energy

In our days, the non-renewable resources are scarce and to prevent its disappearance, people should replace the non-renewable resources by renewable resources. The non-renewable resources are being excessively used and that will unbalance the Earth, because its slow regeneration process isn't enough to prevent its disappearence, and will increase the pollution too. On the other hand, renewable resources aren't as pollutive as the non-renewable and they regenerate themselves much quicker. So it's time to act, our World needs us. If we act this way, we'll ensure the balance of our world and the well being of life on it.

Recycling

Recycling involves processing used materials into new products in order to prevent the waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.

Recycling is a key component of modern waste management and is the third component of the "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" waste hierarchy.

Advantages of recycling:

- Save essential raw materials;

- Reduction of pollution;

- Reduce the amount of non-biodegradable waste;

- Provide secondary raw materials;

- Save energy;

- Removal of hazardous materials;

- Reduce the environmental impact caused by the extraction of resources;

- Creating jobs;

- Contribution to a sustainable development;

- Reduction of the waste put into landfill.