Thursday, April 23, 2009

My carbon footprint



After searching in http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/ and measuring my footprint, I find my carbon footprint is 5.40 earths.
Carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouses gases which we are making every day in our life. From measuring my footprint I got the highest rate between my friends in the class, and they all have the same rate with the average of 3.0 to 4.0. And also everybody in this world has his own carbon footprint which he is responsible for. By the way the UAE has the highest number in the carbon footprint per person in the world even though it is a small country. I don’t know how to decrease my footprint rate but I think that I am living as a normal person; even if I try to decrease my footprint there will be the other people who don’t care about global warming . On other hand I will describe each point about my carbon foot print.
First travelling: I travel a lot between Abu Dhabi and Al Ain or Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I think that traveling between countries once every 2 years is a good thing and I don’t have to do anything about it. On the other hand I don’t use the bus or train or any public transport because I have my own car and it is very fast and very strong. Speaking about my car, I use my car more than 10 hours every day because I like to visit new places in my country and you can’t keep me in my house at the week-end.
Second Food: am not sure about my eating habits if it’s healthy or not, but I like what to eat. I eat meat every day because I love to eat it and I hate vegetables specially salad.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

An inconvenient truth review- Task 4

 A Favorable Review:
Helen OHara, http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/ReviewComplete.asp?FID=134187, says that this movie was amazing because,
1- This movie was far from being boring or being dry by making some jokes and showing beautiful picture about the nature and terrifying pictures of melting glaciers and disappearing forests.
2- Al Gore manual sets piece by piece, builds the concepts and conclusions in very clearly. It also highlights the vast gap between the scientific community and the acceptance of the theory of global warming.
3- Al Gore presents his movie to save the planet from the global warming.
4- Al Gore offers some ways to avoid the phenomenon in the future at the end of the movie.
 An Unfavorable Review:
Scott Nash, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/author/author-9329/, criticizes the movie because,
1- It is more about Al Gore than climate change or global warming.
2- Al Gore was playing with people’s is emotions by telling them about his sister’s lung cancer.
3- It makes political jokes against Bush and other Republicans.
4- Al Gore should use scientific evidence about the global warming not to ridicule Bush and other Republicans.
5- This film is used just for making Al Gore famous by showing people that he cares about them and he wants the best for humankind.
 My opinion.
I think that this movie has a positive thing like it reminded us about the danger of the global warming and how we can avoid it dangers. Also it has bad or unfavorable things like making jokes against Republicans and trying to be famous by telling stories about himself.