An Inconvenient Truth

A New Kind of High-Rise Development (Summary)

Part 1:

This article is about a project which is designed to inspire the importance of living sustainably and maintaining earth’s biodiversity in Sweden. The project succeeded and people start to love it. A brief description follows.
A project shocked everyone who heard about it and having a good demand because it’s the only special place not only for humans to live, but similarly for wild creatures to grow, aiming at sustainable living. Ten 'green' features have been incorporated and an enriched biodiversity has been promoted of its unique ideas. The first phase was 1300 apartments which have been leased out. Residents there started to instill the importance of living sustainably and maintaining Earth's biodiversity. Residents feel the project has been successful but that more could be done. The developers are now learning from Bo01 to plan the green features for the next two building phases to encourage environmental awareness in the purchase of properties.
In summary, if this project continues productively then, we will have children who will grow up understating ecology and wanting to save the earth and some animals will have a better life.

Part 2:

In this article from The Guardian, 2008, the writer talks about a new kind of high-rise development called The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden for people and some kinds of animals and bugs. Already 1300 apartments were leased out. There are several reasons why this project was excellent and why they are continuing with the next 2 phases. The aim of this project is to inspire the importance of living sustainably and maintaining earth’s biodiversity. He uses the comments of people who live in phase 1 like Martin Rugfelt as examples. He outlined some information why people would love to stay in this type of area and how it is suitable for some animals to live there.

Part 3:

I think this topic is very interesting because it talks about an interesting project where people can live and learn and maintain earth’s biodiversity. In my opinion, the article is well organized. In addition, the writer mentioned what was the feedback of people who live there. I agree with what Kruuse said about his project which is not made anywhere else except in Sweden. The idea in this article reminds me of a movie called Prison Break which talks about a similar project. However, I would like to know if GCC countries are thinking to start with a similar project or not.

An Inconvenient Truth Global Warming

Task 3:

This program called An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary movie in which Al Gore talks about global warming, truth, causes, effects & facts, and climate change on the earth. In this essay, I will outline what this movie talks about.

This film shocked everyone who saw it. Firstly, Al Gore said “The world is experiencing faster ice melts”. If the ice melts continues then sea levels worldwide will go up, up to 20 feet. If this happened then big changes could happen. For illustration, big lands of Florida will be under water, 40 million homeless will be in Shangahi, 60 million in Calcuta in India, and the area of the world trade center will be under water as well. However, all of these could happen in the next 50 years caused by ice melts. Secondly, temperature increases are taking place all over the world and that causing stronger storms. When we look at the ten hottest years ever measured they all take place in the last 14 years and hottest of all was 2005. Likewise, the biggest crisis in the history of the United States was in August 2005; it’s was called Hurricanes Katrina. Moreover, 40% of the population of the world will fase a problem of water shortage because of the ice melt. Scientific says that man are causes global warming.
On the other hand, this movie highlighted about how to prevent global worming:-

• Reduce the electricity usage
• Transport efficiency
• Wind power
• More and more…

Taken as a whole, we have to act together to solve this global crisis which is caused by greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide and ice melts. This movie taught us that by supporting clean renewable energy, we can effectively neutralize our personal CO2 emissions. Our small act would ensure that for every ton of carbon dioxide we are emitting, a ton of carbon dioxide will not be released into the atmosphere. As Al Gore said “Go NEUTRAL”.

www.climatecrisis.net

Task 2

An Introduction to Global Warming

Global warming is the most severe problem that we are facing today. It affects people, animals, culture and weather. There is no doubt in my mind that global warming is one of the greatest threats facing humanity. This essay will discuss the causes and solutions of global warming.
Starting with causes, one of the greatest problems caused by global warming is when the sea level rises; the water covers many low lying islands. This is a big problem for many of the plants, animals, and people on islands. A second cause is electrical pollution. Every kilowatt-hour of electricity saved keeps 1.5 to 2 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Another cause is when people cut down trees. Trees and other plants collect carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a greenhouse gas. Burning carbon-containing fossil fuel produces carbon dioxide.

Turning to solutions, one is to use bus, bike or to walk as an alternative of using car a daily basis. This will reduce the percentage of pollution, because cars release a lot of greenhouse gases into the air. Another way in which we can reduce global warming is to plant trees, because trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air. A final workable solution is to recycle things like cans, bottles, plastics and papers. By recycling companies use fewer raw materials to create new products.
In my opinion, the most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human causes.
My suggestion is that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere and to do it urgently.