Protecting natural habitat

“Modern technology owes ecology an apology” said M. Eddison.

Modern-day Ukraine isn’t an exception. We should remember that if we continue neglecting the duty of protecting the environment it will lead to dire consequences and environmental catastrophe. That’s why the daunting task for all Ukrainian society has to be the  preserving of healthy environment. We must get down to improving green policies by finding groundbreaking solutions to make our country healthier till 2030.

To start with, we should analyze the existing environment and clearly understand its problems. In my opinion, the most important issue, which could become considerable difficulty for us to be changed, is saving energy. The consumption of energy is too high in Ukraine. Most of all, it’s because of great part of heavy industry, which is actually one of the basic economical branches of Ukrainian industry. It produces steel, paper, plastic and aluminum, which are the most widespread materials, and use a lot of energy. What is more, heavy energy using as a fuel coal, produces harmful CO2 emissions.

 As a result there is  an air pollution, that has influence on destruction of the ozone layer, and the coal basin is gradually decreasing as well, and it’s likely that it’ll run dry soon. Moreover, a great amount of energy needs for supplying office-buildings, homes and constructions of light industry and others.

I take the view that we have to introduce such methods of conserving energy as minimizing the usage of non-renewable resources and switch to the alternative energy resources. For this point, we should imitate the experience of  West European countries where eco-friendly ways of producing energy have been investigating and studying for a couple of years.

Ukraine has rich natural resources and good natural conditions that allow us to save them and make our natural habitat healthier. For instance, we can build offshore wind farms at seas, then we may maximize using of nuclear energy, provisionally modernizing the appliance of nuclear station in order to avoid explosion such as it was in Chernobyl or try to use solar energy, for example, in spring and summer.

One more solution we can find on landfill, I mean it in a figurative sense. Today it’s possible to recycle waste and use it again in different purposes. By doing in such way, we can get good results as there would be less toxic substances, which are emitted into the air and soil, and pollute them too. Also, we have to use non-carbons technologies to reduce our carbon footprint , cut down over polluting or try to pump it deep underground and stop carbon dioxide emission.

Speaking about vehicle emission, hybrid cars could be a good alternative, but it’s too expensive. Why not try to use such environmentally-friendly kind of transports as bicycle for everyday occasions at least?

Another good point is eco-home. Honestly think, it’s hardly to believe, but there are some models of eco-villages in the world. We can easily take the basic principles of their lifestyle. Nevertheless, it’s only a rough idea and it demands a lot of efforts and money, of course.

It’s my firm conviction, if we don’t start defending our resources and nature, there will be nothing to use in future. All in all, people have to be ready to change their way of life, take care of the Earth and it will take care of us and future generations.