The world is functioning now because of the Oil given to us by dinosaurs. We are too dependent on it. I remember when i was in primary school, it says on the very simple social and environment text book that the world oil reserves and produce will last for another 40 years.
18 years gone by so maybe we have left another 20-30 years of supply which is a real fact.
I start to believe that we are heading towards a very very dangerous state. This dependency is cause our own death if we are not fast enough to come up with good renewable energy resources.
Most of us are probably too ignorant to even want to try to understand this impact. I am glad that i am given the time to understand this.
Hope this is a post that will become a small part in "educating" all those who are not very aware the very dangerous state that we are in.
in another 30 years i will be around 60 years old. No more oil to fuel buses ( perhaps there is but just more more expensive). this is provided that we have not found enough knowledge to help ourselves out of it.
meanwhile what can we do as what we are now ? We are not scientist or forerunners in nano technology but we know we can slow down our oil consumption.
Biggest part of our PUB bill comes from electricity. Electricity is still produced by burning oil to drive turbines. so if we cut electricity we can do our part.
1) leave only the electricity that is neccesary on. Even if you are going to the toilet for a bath, try to switch off the lights in your room.
2) switch off your computer when not in use.
3) be anal about what you turn on at home.
As of now... at this moment the only thing on now is my table lamp and this PC. nothing else. the rest of the house is dark. ( of course the fridge is on perpetually, but we can save by not opening it when not needed )
Sometimes i bath without lights on. i use candles.
Besides feeling good when you get your monthly PUB bills, you are also doing your part in voting against rampant usage.
Same goes for consumerism. Whenever we buy something, that something was produced by burning Oil ultimately. Even buying vegetables. the plastic bag that comes alone with it, the fact that it sits in the fridge of NTUC under cold air, and the transport it took to arrived at the NTUC near you, and the pesticide that the farmer may have used.
The less we buy the less we pollute under our name. consumerism is the devil here.
Maybe the world needs to slow down this way. some says it will hurt economy but it doesnt matter if we are happy from the inside.
happiness should not be consumerism driven.
Next time when you buy something try to think about the amount of effort it takes to bring that to you. It works on me.
Whenever you buy something, you are silently agreeing by voting for using more oil !
Like it or not, if we do not stop this nonesense we are moving towards the worse.
We are truly blinded by all these need for buying. and we forger that we are part of nature. We help make up this earth too. And we are actively changing the world for the worse. The habitat is ruined because of our action.
All the exercise to ask people to wake up our idea has to be heared and answered. I hope somehow i help a little here in helping our home call earth.
