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There is no denying that the average temperature of the earth's surface and oceans in recent decade is rising. The global warming observed over the last 50 years is attributed mainly to increased amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases induced by human activities. Based on UN's report Americans are climate's worst enemies: an average American citizen emits 22 tons of Carbon dioxide compared to average of 6 tons per person in the rest of the world. The issue of global warming is so hot that even Al Gore recently made a controversial film about it entitled " An Inconvenient Truth". Although the film received varied reviews and critics on how data and analysis were used to create fears for its publicity, it is a good mean to explain this issue to a very broad audience.
As this issue on global warming is heating up I found a project of the Slate online magazine called Green Challenge , a very optimistic approach which, I suppose, is what we really need. Green Challenge is a carbon diet challenge spearheaded by TreeHugger (an eco-friendly website) created to evaluate and reduce carbon emissions.
For 8 weeks everyone is invited to evaluate its individual contribution to global warming. The challenge is to reduce our carbon emission by 20% at the end of the program. We should start by taking a quiz to evaluate our current carbon output. The quiz basically assesses our basic action items which we need to update every week. Our collective contribution in reducing carbon will also be posted for our information. There will be two prizes that await us if we meet up to reduce our carbon emission by 20%. The first one is a free t-shirt courtesy of I'm Organic (that is for the first 500 people who succeeded the challenge) and the second one is the knowledge that we contributed to save our planet.
Hurry and let's start the challenge now!
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