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As technologies are empowering the world, people of my generation, thfis generation that is, receives benefits and advantages. Advantages that give people the freewill to do whatever and in fact, almost do the impossible! Now, with the growing power of humankind, it is not that far to imagine that people will no longer work yet they will be able to sustain their lives. Talk about more robotic power and less mechanical will. But with these advantages come negativity that would destroy everything we have worked on. All the medals, ribbons, certificates and trophies would mean nothing anymore if this disaster would come. The once happy and blooming Earth would probably go sad and brown *yes! Not blue but brown* if we would let this happen. My point? LET’S CONSERVE.
First, I would like to give different perceptions about conservation by other people. I will also give my own interpretation about ENERGY CONSERVATION.
“Energy conservation is the practice of decreasing the quantity of energy used. It may be achieved through efficient energy use, in which case energy use is decreased while achieving a similar outcome, or by reduced consumption of energy services. Energy conservation may result in increase of financial capital, environmental value, national security, personal security, and human comfort. Individuals and organizations that are direct consumers of energy may want to conserve energy in order to reduce energy costs and promote economic security. Industrial and commercial users may want to increase efficiency and thus maximize profit.” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/energy_conservation
“A principle stating that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant regardless of changes within the system.” – http://www.answers.com/topic/conservation-of-energy
Coming from these reliable sources, I have come to realize that Energy conservation is not just merely concentrated on Electricity. Well, fuel is energy too! The food we eat is considered as energy as well for us humans. To give my own view of energy conservation, I would start it by the word SAVING. Energy conservation is saving up energy or power to do another job. It’s like instead of using amplifiers for your music wherein you would be the only one listening, you could actually use the electricity for the generation of amps to, let’s say, researching on the Internet. If these are not that essential, why waste when you can save?
Also, the energy you wasted could be your life-saver. So why neglect and throw it away? Given the situation above, your energy consumption played a huge role to save you! How come? So, what if the energy you used, electrically-wise and physically-wise, what you’ll need to do much important tasks, let’s say, a project needs to be printed. But you have already wasted it. Lesson learned? Energy conservation is much more than the unplug-your-TV-sets-from-time-to-time.
Now, let’s talk about energy conservation in a different dimension. To give a hint of what this couple of statements will be about, let me tell you. Now, it’s about how the malpractice of energy conservation will affect us.
Of course, the famous increase of energy cost will definitely affect us. Like before, people of our grandma’s & grandpa’s generation just probably paid at about 50php a month. But look at the present, families are paying at about 5,000php a month. It’s a 1000% increase! Yeah, I know, as I am writing this, I also realized how we are letting money slip our hand unguarded.
Less of the financial aspect and now, more to the Environmental piece. Currently, a large percent of the world still uses Fossil Fuels for energy. And when fossil fuel is burned, large amount of Carbon Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide is contributed to the atmosphere. Thus, Fossil Fuels are not good for the environment. We all know that Carbon Monoxide to Nature is like vices to addicts. We are all aware that vices are the worst enemy of our vital organs. It will eventually kill them yet they can’t escape it because they need it. Same goes to the environment. We are responsive to the fact that fossil fuel we are using will sooner or later kill the environment, and who knows maybe including us, but we are still using it like addicts. Yes, it is because so far, the next best remedy to our thirst for energy is still yet to come. Alternative fuels are flooding the news and bulletins but in spite of everything, those recommendations are not enough. Why? The so-called thirst will never go away. Don’t believe me? Well let me prove it to you. If you’ll take away energy, people would probably go nuts! Try a day without electricity. I know it’s hard because we are all electricity-dependent people. How about a month without it? Can we, city people, survive?
Now, what are supposed to do? Wait until there’s nothing left for us to do but regret? NO!! We shouldn’t let that event to happen! We don’t want to see our future children and grandchildren to experience the ultimate price for our wrong actions. They should not pay the penalty of us doing the damage to Mother Earth. It’s not their fault that they came from generations that mistreated the nature.
Feeling guilty? Well, you shouldn’t. In fact, instead of treating yourself bad with the guilt you feel, why don’t you use that energy to do other good stuff that will benefit us all? Let’s forget selfishness and greed. Let’s consider others. And more importantly, the future.
Perhaps, only we can save the future. We can start by ending the bad habits we do. We should save. SAVE! THRIFT! THINK GREEN! THINK LIFE!
And by this, we could prevent the perfect disaster that could destroy our future.
**claiire**
