CASE 4

Prominent book authors said that technology is the biggest contributor
to climate change, in your capacity as an IT student, how would you address this
global problem? Enumerate steps and actions to be taken.

We all know that technology "was being made to lessen the cost and preferably in order to does work sufficiently and more accurately". In other words, technology was made to help us. It is not the technology that destroys the ecosystem and do great contributions to the climate change but it is us, humans, that do the most damage to the climate. This global problem would be easier to solve if we could just identify what really is the problem. Again, Technology is not the main problem but the right usage of technology is. If we are just good and smart enough to understand this, we could use technlogy as the instrument of restoring back our natural climate that most people believe have been damage greatly by technology when in fact, by them.

And to do this, we must use technology in properly and not abusively. We must atleast identify for what benifit are using the technology.

For my own opinion, here are the best easy steps:

1. Awareness: The first step towards stopping climate change is awareness: awareness of the issue, awareness of how your individual actions and choices affect the balance of our planet and spreading that awareness to others.
2. Your Impact: The second step is taking your knowledge into your own hands and making environmentally friendly choices that will reduce your ecological impact on the planet. A quantifiable way of beginning to do this is calculating your carbon footprint. See how much energy you consume a year, then compare your consumption to national and international averages.
3. Taking Action: Once you have calculated your footprint, take action to reduce it! Our website provides a simple guide on how to morph your home into a climate friendly abode. There are some other great websites out there that can help you as well.
4. Offset your unavoidable emissions and help fund carbon reduction projects in the developing world. GHGs are global, so removing GHGs from the atmosphere in China, removes GHGs from the collective atmosphere.
5. Go Carbon Neutral! Reduce, Reuse and Offset completely.
6. Be an agent of change: Encourage your friends, your coworkers and your place of business to start climate friendly practices.

source: http://emissionszero.com/?q=node/15