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What should be done in Abu Dhabi to make people more aware of the situation?

People in Abu Dhabi could be more aware of this horrific phenomenon that is threatening the whole world by many things. It's all in the government hand. For example, they should put new laws that forbid any product that emits huge amounts of carbon. Another thing that the government can do is to make the media increase the numbers of advertisements and also put a lot of posters on the popular streets in Abu Dhabi.

Why is it called An Inconvenient Truth?

The movie is called An Inconvenient truth because people don’t want to believe that an individual's actions could effect the environment that bad. Not only the people but also governments, they think that they will lose a lot of money if they started working on cool cities and projects that will help the environment. I think that they are aware that they can change the world by doing these simple projects but they are afraid of the consequences.

My Carbon Footprint

Did you ever thought about what is the definition of carbon footprints? In simple words, it is the measure of the global amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases emitted per person. I did the test of the individual footprint and my score was 3.33 which are bad.

There are many problems regarding this issue and the reason why my score was bad. First of all, it is in our culture that we eat meat, fish and chicken almost two times a day, which is a lot. This demand in meats will increase the pollution in the UAE because meat comes from other countries and pollution will come from transportation whether it from ships or planes. Another problem that I usually do which assists in pollution is that I don’t switch off the electricity after using it. For example, when I finish using my room I don’t switch off the lights and the bathrooms too. Finally and most important is smoking. I smoke a lot and this is definitely harmful for the environment and health.

There are many solutions that can stop or prevent global warming that I can do. One of the solutions is to reduce the amount of meat that we eat at home. Another solution is to save the electricity and not to keep it on when it is not in use. A final solution is to quit smoking. It will help a lot and I think that the government should do something to end this problem.

In conclusion, there are many problems that effect on the environment but we must work on its solutions to live in a better world and better atmosphere.

Reaction

In my opinion I think that the movie opened people's mind and made them think again about global warming. I agreed with Al gore in everything he talked about because he persuaded me with facts for example, the possibility of the returning of ice age with proofs and another point is the spreading of new deceases. The deceases that will occur as a consequence of disturbance of bird's migration system. The good thing is that Al Gore gave evidence in every point he discussed about.

An Inconvenient Truth

Global warming is a frequent word that is frightening the world these days. Al Gore discussed this issue in a movie which is called an inconvenient truth and he talked about what we will be facing in the next few years.

In the beginning of the movie, Al gore illustrated an abstract definition of global warming. He talked about what greenhouse gases can do and how can affect the atmosphere.

After that he gave some predictions about the next ice age and he provided evidence of his thought. Al Gore's idea is that the more the effect of global warming the more natural disaster there will be in Earth. He talked also about the consequence of the mixture of fresh water and sea water which will cause to break down the system of the sea currents and that will lead to another ice age.

This will affect the sea level and will water will drown the cities near the coasts. A way to end the movie, Al Gore gave hope to people with some solutions of global warming like using renewable energy and environmentally friend vehicles. He give confidence to people and governments to use there solutions and to do anything to change the effects that Al Gore's mentioned about global warming.

My Profile

My Profile

I am an emirati and I was born in 1987 in Abu Dhabi. Actually I am from Khorfakkan but my father works here. I have two brothers and two sisters and we all live in Abu Dhabi. I am a second year student and I am studying civil engineer at the ADMC. I will write about myself and about the important things that happened to me when I was a child till now. I hope that it will be interesting.

As a child, I went to school when I was five years old. It was Al Nahda international school, one of the best private schools in Abu Dhabi. I remember how was my first day at school, my mother took me and to class and tried to leave but I insisted that she stays with me inside the class. Every time she tried to leave I cried until the teacher carried me and told my mother to leave. At that time I hated the teacher and I thought that she was the enemy or something.

I adapted fast in school, actually I liked it especially when I made friends. The only thing that I dislike is when my mother wakes me up in the morning. I always felt lazy and sleepy because I didn’t go to bed on time and I admit it.

My childhood wasn’t that interesting; in fact it was a little bit boring. I go to school in the morning, come back in the afternoon then doing my homework after that watching TV.

I think that the interesting part of my life started as a teenager. That is because when I became 13 years old I told my parents that I like football a lot and I want to register in Al Jazeera sports club. My father didn’t mind at all because he was a player once in the national team. I played in the team and I was a very good player and I thought that one day I will be a football star until when I became 17 years old I had a serious injury. It ended everything. I felt very bad for my self and I was sad because the doctors of the club told me that the injury isn’t easy and they said that if I get injured again I may not play football again in my life.

I got used to it fast and I stopped playing football for almost a year. When I entered 12^th grade I didn’t think about football at all because it was my last year in school and I should get I high grade and that was my desire that year. I studied hard and did everything that I could to get 90 and above. The exams wasn’t that difficult for me, I put all me effort in the tests and I didn’t think about anything but the marks. We finished the tests and students were all waiting for the results. After two weeks the results were there and when I saw my grades and I was very amazed about it because it was my first time that I get 90 percent.

The Grade is high enough to make my father proud and he was proud. At that time, my father was so happy and he told me that he will give me anything I ask for as my gift. At that time, my cousins were planning to travel to Japan so, I told my father about it and he accepted.

After a long exhausting trip that took about 14 hours we finally made it to Tokyo. It was 3 am and it was raining, we ordered a taxi from the airport to take us to the hotel. While we were in the taxi, my cousin needed to smoke so he opened the window but the taxi driver said no and we were shocked because he said that it is prohibited to even throw the ashes of the cigarette on the street and this is amazing.

We made it to Park hotel, a wonderful hotel that is in a 25^th level in a very tall tower. The booking was done from the UAE that is why we didn’t wait at the lobby and it was quick and easy. We were so tired so we slept till the next morning. In the next day we decided to check out the surrounding thus when we left the building I really got stunned when I saw Tokyo and its people. It is really one of the best cities in the world and what made me shocked was the people. They were the most respectful people I ever seen in my life and that made me comfortable because I thought that Japanese are like the movies, they are always the bad guys therefore I thought that they are the same.

We found an Indian restaurant in the block which was just besides our building so we decided to have lunch. I realized that Indian food has always the same taste, it is like the restaurants we have here in the UAE but more deluxe. When we finished eating we took a walk for about 4 kilometers and we got far away from the hotel. We agreed that when we feel that we want to go back we will simply get a taxi