The earth is a magnificent planet, the only known place where living things exist. It has experienced many different climate changes from beginning until now. However, the extreme case of climate change is happening right now, Global Warming. Since the industrial revolution, human has been consuming oil uncontrolled, without thinking of the consequences. Now this generation and the future generations must fight and solve the problem of global warming. One of the best ways to reduce global warming is for the government to introduce new policies. Singapore has introduced new policies such as reduce, reuse, recycle, and energy-efficiency.
The future generation of Singapore will have the policy of reduce, reuse, recycle, programmed into their way of lives. At school students are taught to throw their plastic bottles and papers into the bins for recycling, also if they want to print out lecture notes, they are encouraged to print both sides, to reduce their paper consumption. Moreover, in supermarket such as NTUC Fairprice, the customers are encouraged to bring their own bag or to buy the environmental friendly bag, which helps to reduce the plastic bag usage. Plastic bags and plastic bottles are made of oil. Thus by reducing the amount of plastic used by many people, it helps to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the air.
Singapore’s government also persuades its people to be more efficient. Now most of the air-conditioned buildings and houses have set their temperature to twenty-five degrees Celsius. Also, the cars nowadays are fuel-efficient. By making higher tax for cars and petrol, the public is more relied on public transportation than private cars. The government also teaches the public on how to be more energy-efficient through media. If the whole Singapore has the carry out the energy-efficiency program, at least Singapore will be a better place, and other countries will follow its example.
All the actions and policies taken by the government of Singapore can help to reduce the problem of global warming as it involves the whole community of Singapore. If the whole community does not work together in fighting the global warming, then the world will not be magnficent anymore.
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Short to the point and concise lists of actions done by Singapore government. Just one thing;in third paragraph, I am not sure about the usage of the word "rely". I think it should be "the public has to rely on". Correct me if I am wrong.
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned that recycling would help in combating global warming. I feel that this may not be of great significance as most of our waste is buried rather than incinerated, hence recycling would prove to help reduce wastage but not solve global warming.
ReplyDeleteYour paragraphs in the post were well organized with clear topic sentences and a thesis. I agree with Jia Wei though that the 3Rs would not do much to limit CO2 emissions although they are a good way to limit waste. I personally feel that Singapore's COE policy and excellent public transportation system do a lot more to limit individual CO2 emissions and are a good example for other countries.
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