You may have heard of the Pharaoh’s of ancient Egypt? One of those old rulers ordered the introduction of a whole new religion, where the Sun was seen as the one and only deity.
Personally, I feel that old Echnaton’s sun worship has a lot to recommend it. After all, life on Earth is totally dependent on the Sun’s warmth. Imagine if the Earth for some cosmic reason would stray away from the Sun - what would happen?
Well, everything would freeze. The oceans would freeze. Soon, it would be so cold that even the air would turn into liquid form, and then to a solid substance. The Earth would be a dark, barren, dead clump of frozen matter lost in space.
On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to tilt the delicate balance of the Sun-Earth system in the opposite direction. If the Sun were to heat the Earth only slightly more than it does now, it would have very serious consequences for us. Among other things, the areas around the Equator would become so hot that no life could survive there.
And this could happen - IF the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to rise. There is already more CO2 in the air than it has ever been for the last eight hundred million years!
Yes, we need to go back to a very remote era in the Earth’s history - long before the age of the dinosaurs even - to find a time with as much CO2 in the air as there is today.
And why is it so? Well, the atmospheric CO2 level has gone up very rapidly since the dawn of the industrial age, a few hundred years ago. It correlates with the enormous use of fossil fuels - coal and oil - associated with our modern age.
So, to put it briefly: We need to go green - ASAP. We need to use green, renewable energy and stop burning up fossil fuels. Solar energy is clean, renewable energy. There are also other forms of “green” energy such as wind power.
Scientists are also experimenting with obtaining electric energy from the power of ocean waves, and the results are quite promising.
What can we do, here and now? Well, fortunately we don’t have to sit around and wait for “The Government” to solve the problems for us. Today you can actually install your own cheap solar panels - for instance, put them on the sunny roof of your house and get free electric energy!
There are even neat home wind generators - little wind turbines for home use which you can assemble using inexpensive materials. Follow THIS LINK to read more.
