Penguins and global warming (Summary and response #1)

Penguins and global warming

In Jimenez-David’s article, “Penguins and global warming,” she writes that there is a remarkable problem between penguins and global warming. First, she mentions the animation movie, “Happy Feet,” about penguins, which included an environmental message to show that penguins have been endangered by global warming around Antarctica. According to the article, the environmental problem is caused by not only global warming, but also pollution. Moreover, she explains that the sea level is going up steadily because global warming causes the temperature of the earth to rise, so glaciers will be melt in the future. However, she claims that we can prevent this global warming if we try to pay attention more about the cause of the problem and change our bad lifestyle.

As the author mentions, because of the rising of the temperature due to global warming, penguins have become one of the endangered animals. Actually, penguins are considered an Antarctic animal, so they need cold weather. However, today, the glaciers tend to melt themselves because of high temperature. If this situation still continues, there will be no penguin anymore in the future. Moreover, this situation is for not only penguins, but also other animals. Therefore, people should use public transportation and the industrial factories should have purifiers. Moreover, people should pay more attention to endangered animals such as penguins.

First, people have to use more public transportation rather than their own cars. As you can see in the many studies, global warming is caused by carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel. If all people use their own cars, the emission of carbon dioxide would be a more serious problem. Because we cannot stop using the vehicle, use of the public vehicles is the best choice we can make. In addition, the public transportation can transport from 20 to 30 persons. It is more efficient than the privately owned car, also.

Next, the owners of factories should equip each industrial factory with a purifier. The purifier is the equipment that purifies the polluted air. In fact, it is not really wrong that the global warming was started during the industrial revolution. Because many factories emit amounts of the polluted air when they are working, the earth cannot purify all of them. So, all factories should be required to have the purifier.

Finally, people have to take care of the endangered animals such as penguins. With global warming, there are a lot of endangered animals, even besides penguins. First of all, they need our attention. Actually, they are in danger of disappearing forever because we did not pay any attention to them before. If we had known that global warming would happen and it world cause some animals to disappear, we could keep the fresh air of the earth. Because we did not think about them, we could not know what would happen, today.

In conclusion, people should use their privately owned cars less for conserving the endangered animals. Also, the industrial factories should be equipped with the purifiers and people have to pay attention to the endangered animals. Even though some areas already have the problems, it is not really late to preserve them. If we try to find the way to save the endangered animals and make the environment fresh, we can keep our earth in clean condition.

Reference

Jimenez-David, R. (2006, November 20). Penguins and global warming. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 23, 2007, from Lexis Nexis database.