The environmental issues

1. What according to you is a healthy environment?

Most people have different opinions about what a healthy environment is. For me a healthy environment is where individuals are fiscally healthy. A world that is free from sound and different gas pollution by that I mean a place that doesn’t over provide carbon dioxide such as a lot of cars, airplanes and industry locations do.

These things cause global warming issues, which leads to human beings living an unhealthy life, even though we need it sometimes.

We depend on how our environment looks like, so if we want to live a life that is healthy, we need to start thinking about being friendly to our environment.

There are different solutions to

2. What is the big threat for the environment in the different partner countries?

If we keep on living as we do right now, our future won’t be looking good, that’s what I think.

In these different partner countries there are different issues or threats for the environment, if I take Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Germany for example there biggest environmental issue is the emissions from coal-burning utilities and the industries contribution to air pollution. That is the biggest issue in whole Europe.

Germany has other big issue and it’s the acid rain that is damaging and potentially deadly to the earth's fragile ecosystems.

The resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions is damaging forests in Germany also pollution in the Baltic Sea from raw mess and industrial effluents from rivers in eastern Germany. That has spread to the neighbour countries such as Belgium.

Turkey has another issue on their environment and it water pollution, from the dumping of chemicals and detergents in the water. That leads to contaminate water and people won’t be able to drink water. Luckily that is not a big problem in Sweden , is Sweden there is the best and cleanest water on the earth.

· Is there a solution?

There are many solutions (watch the points below)

· What can industry do?

The industries in sweden today use so much water and energy than many cities in Sweden use. What they can use is more environmental friendly energy like solar energy and water energy.

They should try to use less water because that is not only bad for the environment but it’s also unfair to the people in poor countries who are suffering from water dehydration.

· What can you do an individual?

I personally don’t think there is a solution to all the threats I’ve explained. Nowadays most industries want new high technology products that will destroy our environment. The only solution can be that there comes a stricter law up to those (industries) who causes damages to the global environment.
Another solution can be that every individual themselves take their responsibilities to:

“Heal the world; make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race”

Quote: Michael Jackson.

As my friend Hanna said in the first post of the blog in January month, U can simply take trains to get where u want instead of cars. If u can’t get wherever u want with the train, u can try the bike is healthy for u as much as it is healthy for the environment. Doesn’t u think so?

Many people don’t really think of how unhealthy their cars are for the environment. It’s not only cars.

It can be small things such as throwing garbage on the streets and bigger things as not recycling things we can recycle (Papers, steel etc..). So recycle those things u can, such as the bottles you drink from and normally throw on the garbage. They are actually not garbage; they are in fact a real plus for our surroundings and atmosphere.
If we from now on think about those things and learn more about how to get a healthy environment, teach kids in school about the environment and spread the knowledge u have about the healthy environment. Search knowledge about those kinds of things, then I guess the world would turn into a better place.
So everyone go green it wont harm you, it will instead give you wisdom and health!

3. What will the environment in Europe look like in 2050?

If the industries don’t change their habits they have right now, and if we don’t take the responsibility to make a change for our environment, I guess the future will be dark.

The global environmental questions are much discussed and many countries are putting a lot of money in these things which is good. But are they acting against these environmental issues. In my opinion, the answer is no.

Every country are nowadays getting more and more materialistic. Everyone wants to be rich in everything. And to get rich they are wasting too many resources that are not renewable such as oil, minerals and things that help increasing the economy.

If we use too many of the un renewable resources, the probability is that we wont ever get them back.

Take a look at Dubai and the golf regions countries who have been rich in less than 20 years, and today they compete with the united states that have always been a dominating country in economy.
These countries have been using too much of the oil they have, if it decreases, who will give them back.

It’s the same with the forests. There are many countries that chop of the treas to get paper and plastics and through that get rich. This happens in the regions of Asia pacific and west African countries. The worst part is that it’s not them who are using it, its other countries, which colonise these countries.

People have forgotten about the world and the world recourses, its damaging our environment but we won’t realise it until something terrible happens.

All this is because we burn too much carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide goes up to the atmosphere and thinness the ozone layer. When the ozone layer thinness up, it pours in more heat from the sun near the earth and leads to the world's average temperature increased. Already, there has been increased by one degree Celsius which is very high.

By the time of 2050 the average temperature has increased a lot, which will lead to many damages in the warm countries such as Africa and asia. There will be desert spreads and many more people dying of water dehydration in those countries. The future is dark for many I think!