Week-9 Post-Session Reflection

Five year energy time bomb threatens the UK

The article of Five Year Energy Time Bomb Threaten the UK explains the importance of finding out sustainable resources as most Europe countries are running out their non-renewable resources. Based on the relative data in this article, it shows coal, oil and gas will be used up in next following years; therefore, Europe has to be dependent on more importing resources in the near future.

It is important to get enough support to develop more existing and new renewable resources in Europe. Other solutions are needed to be settled to overcome the problem of energy shortages, for instance, how to storage the energy efficiently.

It is worth mentioning that other countries also have problems of renewable energy resources, hence, further development and research in both developed and developing countries are essential.

Global Health: Deadly dinners

According to the article ‘Global Health’, it explains population problem is still a severe issue due to the fact that more than 30% people are dependent on solid biomass fuels that mainly are used for cooking, including wood, animal dung and agricultural waste or charcoal in some rural areas as well as urban areas. Although individuals are encouraged to decrease the usage of biomass fuels, as a matter of fact, the population caused by biomass fuels still exert increasingly negative impacts on the environment and people’s health. For example, it is estimated that more than 4.5 million people suffer from household air pollution while 4 million females are confronted with premature deaths.

Even though biomass fuels produce side effects on the environment and people’s health, they are considered as renewable resources to some extent. However, the benefits of such renewable resources are exaggerated and doubted. The article also mentions other alternatively sustainable resources are encouraged to be used to reduce household pollution, such as solar, electricity and gas.

It is necessary to explore more friendly environmental energies or resources to replace biomass fuels. Otherwise, it is certain that biomass fuels would cause catastrophic influences.