The social issues with my topic which is dependency on fossil fuels is that peoples life is impacted for example in some parts of china people have to walk around in mask to prevent them, from breathing the large amount of polluted air. The economic issue is that there are many oil companies that have not change the source of energy they get and are still drilling to get more oil. The environmental problem is that again oil companies or power plants impact the way people live. For example the spill of Bps oil on the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 (Sakashita, M. 2014, March 26, “Four Years After Gulf Oil Spill, BP Is Recovering Faster Than Environment').
This is an issue that is not going to be able to change for the better right away but changes do need to happen. People could say that we should just switch from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy but there are problems with this to because they are very expensive to make. There are different ways countries are helping to prevent a lot more global warming and that is by placing laws. Australia in 2011 put a law that its 500 worst polluters will have to pay a tax on every ton of carbon they make. Laws like these could stop big companies from polluting the world (“What Countries Are Doing To Tackle Climate Change”, 2011, December 9). China does not have very strong environmental laws and parts of their country have some of the most polluted air in the world.
Other issues that are also connected to mine is jobs if these workers who work for mining coal or drilling for coal might lose their jobs and people may say that changing the energy source is bad because the jobs people would lose. What will also be said is that the new energy sources will ruin a countries economy because fossil fuels can provide cheap energy for many years.
What makes it difficult to answer global issues is that different countries have different way of working there country. This means that the just changing laws in the U.S. will not be enough to change the world. Countries need to work together to address the problems. The only way governments will listen will be by letting them know that there is a big global warming problem.
This is an issue that is not going to be able to change for the better right away but changes do need to happen. People could say that we should just switch from fossil fuels to wind and solar energy but there are problems with this to because they are very expensive to make. There are different ways countries are helping to prevent a lot more global warming and that is by placing laws. Australia in 2011 put a law that its 500 worst polluters will have to pay a tax on every ton of carbon they make. Laws like these could stop big companies from polluting the world (“What Countries Are Doing To Tackle Climate Change”, 2011, December 9). China does not have very strong environmental laws and parts of their country have some of the most polluted air in the world.
Other issues that are also connected to mine is jobs if these workers who work for mining coal or drilling for coal might lose their jobs and people may say that changing the energy source is bad because the jobs people would lose. What will also be said is that the new energy sources will ruin a countries economy because fossil fuels can provide cheap energy for many years.
What makes it difficult to answer global issues is that different countries have different way of working there country. This means that the just changing laws in the U.S. will not be enough to change the world. Countries need to work together to address the problems. The only way governments will listen will be by letting them know that there is a big global warming problem.