TED Talk Essay by Levin
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TED Talk Essay by Levin - July 2017 Scholarship Essay
The world that we live in today has been around for billions of years, supporting numerous species from the ancient dinosaurs to us humans. This world has provided us with the resources to ensure that we survive as a species, and throughout the decades that we have been here we have been destroying the very home that we live in. Ever since the industrial revolution, we have been slowly stabbing the earth in its back through the pollution that is produced factories that make our phones to the coal that is produced, this pollutant is a gas called carbon dioxide. This element is a combustible gas found volcanoes erupt or in fossil fuels when they burned to create oil and when it is released into the atmosphere, it acts as a barrier that block the heat and keep it from escaping into space. One of the contributing producers of carbon dioxide are the vehicles that we drive today that are powered by gasoline or diesel, and everyday we drive these to vehicles to accomplish multiple tasks such as commuting to work or errand from point a to point b, we are turning the knife into the earth’s back as we continue to operate fossil fueled power vehicles that fortify the barrier that continues to contain the heat from escaping, ultimately resulting in numerous problems to our own earth such as global warming.
The solution to this complication of global warming is actually quite simple by making logical decisions in order to reduce your carbon footprint on this earth, specifically choosing an environmentally friendly car. Manufacturers such as Tesla and BMW have begun to realize the impact of gasoline and diesel cars have been affect our world, as they have engineered a solution to this dilemma, all-electric cars. These vehicles not only run on purely electricity which doesn’t release any carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere, also cars that run on electricity are superior to those that run on fossil fuels in every way. All gas cars have what’s called an mpg or miles per gallon, which is a measure unit used to estimate how many miles a gas car can travel before refueling, and most gas cars average about twenty-three miles per gallon, however electric cars average a higher milage of one hundred miles. Other benefits of owning an electric car are being able to charge your car at home as well as lower cost to refuel it a local charging station, which shows how owning an electric car not only would reduce the carbon dioxide released globally but overall exceeds gasoline and diesel powered cars.
There is a saying that states “No one is perfect.” and the same goes for electric cars, as they too contain just as many problems as a gasoline vehicles. One of the main problems that electric cars have aren’t the cars themselves but the charging stations themselves, the first problem of the charging stations are actually finding them as they are not as common as your local shell station as the first charging station was deployed in 2016, and even when you find a charging station, compared to their fossil fueled counterparts, electric cars devour an excessive amount of time to charge, a typical charge could last thirty minutes to twelve hours depending on the size of the car's battery and amount needed to charge. Despite these problems, cities such as California plan to expand their networks and allow easier access to electric car users, as well as upgrade the technology within the charging stations to accelerate charging times. An additional problem of owning an electric vehicle are the cost of them vehicles such as the BMW I3 and the Tesla Model S which their manufacturer's suggested retail price are around the mid fifty thousand dollars, which might not be a price people would be willing to pay for an electric vehicle. Nonetheless there are other alternatives to an electric vehicle, for instance hybrid vehicles which are powered by both gasoline and electricity, which produces a limited amount of carbon dioxide while still delivering similar performance at a lower cost. Also some car manufacturing companies like Audi would give buyers who purchased an Audi A3 e-tron (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) federal tax credit, addition tax credits, and incentives depending on which state they live in for owning an environmentally vehicle.
I’m not a professional car salesman, trying to sell you electric car, however the more that people use gasoline powered vehicles continue to puncture our world by allowing their cars to release carbon dioxide which in turn increases our world’s temperature slowly, resulting in the melting of the glaciers, and the increase of enormous wildfires, our world will continue to burn up from the fever its continues to fight off. Even though there are still other heavyweight contributors to the carbon emissions released into the atmosphere, by operating environmentally friendly automobiles, political officials and world leaders will begin to realize that our world has been suffering, and will begin to recognize that global warming is in fact real and focus their attention to healing our world.