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We are making our environment more sustainable and reducing the environmentally hazardous emission of gasses that affect our environment every day which creates a toxic cycle that occurs on a repetitive basis. This cycle must stop and what are the ways that we could adhere to a new approach on how to better the environment. We can do urban gardening, greener transportations, and energy efficiency in buildings which will have a dramatic effect on our surroundings. This plan will reduce the toxic levels of greenhouse gas emissions. In listening to the video on Ted Talk Seeing a sustainable future by Alex Steffen he has spoken on the fact that it is so imperative to make our surroundings more sustainable so that we can reduce environmental hazards. He also discussed how we needed to reduce our CO2 footprint. 

We can reduce our CO2 footprint. We cause adverse effects on our environment by having such a large CO2 footprint for one person. One person’s CO2 footprint is approximate 5-10 tons per year. That is an estimate of approximately what our CO2 footprint is per year. This weights down the environment tremendously which causes all types of issues for the Earth. Having such a large CO2 footprint doesn’t allow for the earth to try to repair itself, because we add more and more to our CO2 footprint without considering the effects that it has on our ozone and other natural protective barriers that the earth provides us with naturally. Our CO2 footprint is one-person use multiplied by billions; this leaves an adverse effect on earth if we continue Alex Steffen discussed this. Alex Steffen explained that people if given the right situation they would decrease driving and want to better the environment. We must create an environment to replicate this process, so people could be more environmentally friendly.

In the coming years, there will be more than 8 billion people on earth which will lead to adverse effects because peoples CO2 footprint will be larger and maybe they might not want to adhere to the new changes to keep the environment sustainable which entails a lasting impact on the earth that is negative. We must open our lives to becoming sustainable, so we won’t have to live in a toxic environment. Making the change now is what we need in going further to help the earth repair from all these adverse effects. In listening to Alex Steffen and his video, his solutions lead the way to a new way of thinking about how we could better produce a more significant outcome for our surroundings. We are the ones at the controls, so we should be able to make decisive action towards the repair of the earth to lessen the effects that our footprints leave on earth.