How can policies of your government either contribute or help to reduce the problem of global warming?
The emission of carbon dioxide has been increasing throughout the years. It is one of most crucial contributing factors to the cause of global warming. Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface. It has become one of the highlights in the discussion of global issues. In the recent years, government has been promoting ways to reduce the factors contributing to global warming. In Singapore, government can make more emphasis on saving electricity and fuel consumption in the daily basis.
First of all, electricity is produced largely through the process of burning fossil fuel and it contributes greatly in releasing carbon dioxide. Electricity is one of the most frequent uses of energy to be employed for our daily needs. It is not only used in our household, it is also use in our daily working environment. Government should educate the society more on saving electricity in our daily life. Rewards such as rebates can be given to individual household or company when they meet certain criteria. It can be based on the percentage of saving through a couple of months and able to maintain at that bills. On the other hand, more taxes can be introduced if their usages are over certain percentage. In order to create an individual awareness of saving, rewards and taxes may be the first contributing step to be used.
Secondly, fuel is consumed by almost all vehicles on the roads. Fuel burning is the most direct way to create carbon dioxide by the individual cars. In Singapore, government has been increasing taxes to cars on the road to lessen people driving and promoting in public transport. Although this is one of the ways to reduce the number of drivers on the road, it does not solve the problem. Alternatively, the government should promote the replacement of fuel cars to hybrid or Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) cars. Although its combustion does produce greenhouse gases, it is a more environmentally clean than using only fuels.
In conclusion, electricity and fuel consumption has become our daily uses and it is contributed directly to the production of carbon dioxide by the people. Therefore, the immediate solution to solve the problem is to educate the public with the government enforcing it.
Reference:
Former Vice President, Al Gore. Media: The Inconvenient Truth.
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Good elaboration for your points as you always have examples to support your topic sentence.
ReplyDeleteI think education about the seriousness of global warming and the reason of it can also be a good way in reducing the effect of global warming.
Do note that we usually say "the government" and not just "government" when we refer to a specific government as a noun. Since you are talking about the Singapore government, you need the article "the".
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