Environmental Diseaster At The Wheel
The majority of cars are powered by the internal combustion engine.
This revolutionary invention was developed more than 100 years ago and, with a meteoric rise in car ownership and use today, is a major cause of world pollution.
Unfortunately the by product of the internal combustion reaction is the thing which causes industrial pollution and respiratory disease.
So now, manufacturers are trying to reduce emissions in order to not only help the planet and individual health, but also to sell more cars.
If cars can be leaner and greener, then they can make a major contribution to the reduction in global warming and therefore should be the vehicles that are bought out of choice.
No doubt the manufacturer of green vehicles is as much concerned with promoting the fact that they are greener and therefore increasing sales as it is purely philanthropic measure.
So where does our true heart lie? Our yearning for more self-indulgence will see us buying more and more vehicles of the internal combustion variety.
yet we will salve our consciences by buying cars that are green.
But, however "green" the intelligent amongst us will realise that such purchases are only adding to the environmental burden on earth.
So NOW we have a dilemma and one that will search the souls of even the most hardened recycler.
Can we live without cars? No - of course not.
Nothing has seen our incessant demand decrease.
Perhaps we should forget the minor contributors to the earth's existence - recycling of cans and bottles for example - and, instead, buy a bike whilst consigning the car to the trash.
This revolutionary invention was developed more than 100 years ago and, with a meteoric rise in car ownership and use today, is a major cause of world pollution.
Unfortunately the by product of the internal combustion reaction is the thing which causes industrial pollution and respiratory disease.
So now, manufacturers are trying to reduce emissions in order to not only help the planet and individual health, but also to sell more cars.
If cars can be leaner and greener, then they can make a major contribution to the reduction in global warming and therefore should be the vehicles that are bought out of choice.
No doubt the manufacturer of green vehicles is as much concerned with promoting the fact that they are greener and therefore increasing sales as it is purely philanthropic measure.
So where does our true heart lie? Our yearning for more self-indulgence will see us buying more and more vehicles of the internal combustion variety.
yet we will salve our consciences by buying cars that are green.
But, however "green" the intelligent amongst us will realise that such purchases are only adding to the environmental burden on earth.
So NOW we have a dilemma and one that will search the souls of even the most hardened recycler.
Can we live without cars? No - of course not.
Nothing has seen our incessant demand decrease.
Perhaps we should forget the minor contributors to the earth's existence - recycling of cans and bottles for example - and, instead, buy a bike whilst consigning the car to the trash.
