Global warming has been a serious problem that haunts us since human started to be active in all kinds of industrial activities, we cut off trees to build houses, we invented vehicles that emitted green house gasses, we even burned down forests for farming purposes. Thus, what we have done lead us to the problem of drastic climate change, chaos, such as typhoons, floods and droughts are happening every year, and that has threaten the life’s of the people living on earth. Now, every country is seeing to this problem and some has started carrying out policies to try save the earth. For my country, Malaysia, the government is trying hard to carry out two policies, controlled deforestation activities and reduced emission of green house gasses by vehicles.
The government of Malaysia started to reduce the number of lessens issued to the land developers for caring out deforestation. Those land developers are also needed to obey the new policy, that is, the number of trees is replanted should be equal or more than the number of trees being cut down. This will help to maintain the low level of carbon dioxide. Besides that, Malaysia government also set up strict rules like banning the usage of fire for clearing land, and those who were found carrying out open burning shall be fined a huge amount of money. Idle land also is being replanted with trees and oil palms to help maintain the moisture and the level of oxygen in the air.
On the other hand, Malaysia is upgrading the services of public transports, the purpose of this is to encourage the people to use public transport instead of driving themselves. Public transports like LRT (Light Rail Transit) and commuters were built because they do not emit carbon dioxide, and the tickets are cheap to attract more passengers. People are also encouraged to share their transport when they are going to work or travel. This will help on reducing the amount of traffic jams during peak hours and more importantly, reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and other harmful green house gasses.
In my opinion, everybody have the responsibility to do something to save Mother Nature. I’m sure everyone does not wish to see our future earth to turn into a dreadful place to live in. So, let’s wait no more, start planting trees and stop global warming from getting more and more serious.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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EG1471 e-portfolio 1
Throughout history, engineers had been there to solve daily life problems and accomplish human needs. Since the society is getting more and more advance, technology used are getting more and more complicated, engineers need to work harder as the problem in daily life is getting tougher to be solved. Engineering courses given by universities nowadays will help all the engineering undergraduates to develop the ability to analyze complex information systematically and thus apply a systematic approach in designing solutions.
The main part of engineering is to know how to analyze problems occurred. First of all, engineers need good skills in both math and physic because the two subjects is the main core to help engineers calculating all those figures and numbers occurred during their encounter with problems in fields like financial, investment, development of buildings, building electronic devices and creating new technology. Besides that, to be effective in analyzing data, engineers should develop a strong base of programming skill, so that they can build computer programs that able to help them on analyzing complex information or data correctly and accurately.
The other important part about engineering is about having a systematic approach in designing solutions for respective problems. Due to the complexity of the problems in daily life, an engineer should have a mind set to think generally, logically, be sharp and concise. While designing a solution, engineers need to think about all the consequences that will happen and try to solve it one by one. Engineers will also need to be patient because there will be times where engineers have to struggle or in other words, troubleshooting a few times to obtain satisfied results.
With both analytical skill and systematically thinking, engineers can involve themselves in many fields. For me, I believe that, in the future, in any fields, there will be engineers to do the job.
The main part of engineering is to know how to analyze problems occurred. First of all, engineers need good skills in both math and physic because the two subjects is the main core to help engineers calculating all those figures and numbers occurred during their encounter with problems in fields like financial, investment, development of buildings, building electronic devices and creating new technology. Besides that, to be effective in analyzing data, engineers should develop a strong base of programming skill, so that they can build computer programs that able to help them on analyzing complex information or data correctly and accurately.
The other important part about engineering is about having a systematic approach in designing solutions for respective problems. Due to the complexity of the problems in daily life, an engineer should have a mind set to think generally, logically, be sharp and concise. While designing a solution, engineers need to think about all the consequences that will happen and try to solve it one by one. Engineers will also need to be patient because there will be times where engineers have to struggle or in other words, troubleshooting a few times to obtain satisfied results.
With both analytical skill and systematically thinking, engineers can involve themselves in many fields. For me, I believe that, in the future, in any fields, there will be engineers to do the job.
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