The United Kingdom is Doing Great Things for the Environment!

My senior seminar forced me to endure an excruciating twenty page, thirty source paper, but it did instill some invaluable information in the process. For example, while I have spent the majority of these blogs criticizing mankind's actions over the past two hundred years for polluting/destroying our surrounding environment, I feel the need to discuss the good that we have been accomplishing too! To be more specific, I have recently read some rather encouraging facts through the United Kingdom's online website in regarding the reduction of their greenhouse gases. According to the many conference proceedings I have been reading, the United Kingdom has reduced their emissions by 30% since the year of 1990! This is a huge step for environmentalists everywhere, since the United Kingdom is a 21st century power house of emitting greenhouse gases. In other words, they prove that protecting our environment does not have to come at the expense of becoming a major detriment to industry/the economy. This was accomplished by investing in alternative energy, upgrading homes/appliances to be energy efficient, investing in electric cars/fuel efficient vehicles, and last but certainly not least, setting step-by-step emission reduction targets. There is a serious lesson to be taken away here for not only the United States, but the rest of the world as well. We must begin to work together following countries such as the United Kingdom as an example, and in doing so, begin to walk a path closer to what God intended for His creation.