"The Earth Does Not Belong to Us, We Belong to the Earth."
Words expressed in 1854 year by Indian Chief Seattle should be at the begining of XXI century become a declaratoion for protection of live on Earth.
Ecologial organisations are alerting - excessive energy use can effect in degradation of natural environment on Earth.
Our excessive combustion of fossil fuels puts exorbitant amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. High levels of CO2 mean heat from the earth is retained in the atmosphere thus accelerating the ‘green house effect’ and global warming. Gases such as N2O, CH4 and fluorine gases further add to global warming. The last decade has produced a series of troubling records in average global temperature. Records that are unprecedented in the history of temperature recording.
According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the average temperature is expected to increase 1-5°C over the next century. Global warming means more extreme weather conditions: growing risk of windstorms, flooding, heat waves and desertification. Glaciers and inland ice are melting and retreating rapidly. Islands will be submerged. In other regions global warming nourishes malaria habitats.
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