While most technologies has a devastating impact on our environment as they increase the consumption of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources and emits greenhouse gases that cause global warming through the production and consumption of energy in manufacturing, electrical and electronic engineering is offering ways to replace the conventional means of producing energy; and it is trying to save our planet through inventions like low carbon solutions and electric vehicles.
Global warming will cause rise in sea levels, reduction of fresh water and might put endangered species at danger as it is affecting the habitats of animals around the world and the ecology of our planet. Most importantly, it is inevitable for three reasons.
Firstly, the effect of greenhouse effects is serious and it is increasing. Global warming and climate changes are inevitable unless all factories are shut down immediately which will put billions of people unemployed and destroy our energy systems and society; and the greenhouse effects and the level of pollution are increasing and will always be increasing as our population is growing rapidly and soon it will exceed the carrying capacity of our earth.
Secondly, government leaders and all people won’t and can’t take this problem seriously as they have other things to worry about, such as employments, economic issues and conflicts between nations; and most importantly, shutting down polluting means of manufacturing and producing energy will cause economic problems and problems in employment that the government leaders and normal people don’t want to happen. Thirdly, the current uses and techniques and sources of green energy, such as electricity and solar energy could not replace traditional and pollution conventions of producing energy thorough burning fossil fuel, for they are either too expensive or have limitations or are not energy efficient.
Therefore, the end of global warming, climate changes can only be achieved by inventions that are energy efficient and economically accessible to the public. If that invention could happen, it is more likely to happen in the field of electrical engineering, such as the invention of an advanced electrical vehicle in the future. This is also essential to world peace as non-renewable resources is possessed by few nations that conflicts often occur when nations fights over these limited resources, such as Iraq War. If a technique of green energy is invented, such as a type of advanced electrical vehicle, the resources to operate that technique is accessible to all nations around the world that it will reduce the conflicts over oil and other non-renewable resources.
My dream as an electrical engineer is to reduce global warming and save our planet by developing electrical vehicles that are energy efficient and affordable to the public, or other electrical equipment that could replace the conventional means which burns fossil fuels.
This is also important to a nation’s thrive and future as the future economy relies on the techniques that could replace the conventional means of producing energies by using non-renewable and limited resources.