CO2 Emission as a Severe Global Environmental Concern

Due to other environmental practices that are more relatable to families or people in a general sense, such as household recycling, carpooling, and even purchasing solar panels for a rooftop, the detrimental harm CO2 emissions have caused to the Earth’s atmosphere is often overlooked. As a release of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere known as CO2 emissions continue to dominate the world’s top environmental concerns, a recent increasing effort has provided multiple ideas including those of chemists, professors, and world corporations. The efforts provided by these group of people of improving certain energy producing methods such as Nuclear energy plants offers hope to ultimately reduce the globe’s high emission of CO2, thus seizing the climb of global temperatures.

Proven a key environmental topic in 205 Easy Ways to Save The Earth by Thomas Friedman, the author spends a great deal of time exploring various solutions to the destructively high levels of CO2 emission and opens his main argument of tackling CO2 emissions with the universal question, “What exactly would we have to do by way of deploying these existing clean power technologies and energy-efficiency programs – starting today – to make that fundamental impact?” (Friedman 275). In response, Friedman presents the work of Robert Socolow and Stephen Palaca, both professors at Princeton who lead the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, “…a consortium that has set out to design scalable solutions for the climate problem”(Friedman 276). Socolow and Palaca organize their environmental efforts and solutions into a 15 sectioned pie chart or list:

Double fuel efficiency on two billion cars and reduce the number of miles driven. Raising efficiency of coal fired plants and replaci...

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...ibutions like these are necessary to succeed at lowering carbon dioxide levels, and if more corporations and companies worldwide made these advances, the results could be astonishing.

The levels of CO2 emissions will always remain a global environmental concern given the energy demands of today’s society, at least in our lifetime. Various ideas have been put forth by those who are truly knowledgeable of the danger caused to the Earth by CO2 emissions. Is Socolow and Palaca’s 15 section pie chart the answer, is Lewis’ concept the key, or is it going to take a combination of all efforts to solve this environmental crisis? We will never know until a full scale execution is put in place. One thing is certain, as we continue to advance technologically, culturally, and globally, we must take responsibility for the past and present, or pay the consequences in the future.