The importance of sustainability for example: finite resources and shortages the earth has many precious finite resources, on its surface and under the ground, including all the main fossil fuels everyone uses: oil, natural gas and coal. Most of everyone's consumer economy relies on all these resources to an manufacture and provide all the energy for all the goods and services to everyone's modern world demands. Everyone's fossil fuels will eventually run out, causing shortages and price rises as reserves dwindle. New technology and all renewable energy is slowly been developed, to reduce everyone's reliance on all fossil fuels and make them last longer.
Global warming is when the earth is warming up. Here are some possible reasons that have been put forward.
Melting ice caps
Flooding could have an devastating affect on everyone's communities. Floods can be caused by:
While the global warming is causing changes to climates across many major land masses, this is having its own impact on biodiversity. A lot of species will need to evolve to adapt to all these changes, or they will become extinct. As species become extinct, the natural order of nature will be upset. For an example, the loss of predators could cause infestations of a lot of locusts or mice.
Local and global context, and the impact on construction
Global warming is when the earth is warming up. Here are some possible reasons that have been put forward.
- The orbit of the earth about the sun is not a true circle, but deviates: the,near everyone is to the sun, the warmer it will be.
- The whole earth wobbles on its axis, causing north and south to receive more heat from the whole sun.
- Burning all the fossil fuels releases Carbon dioxide, which traps heat within the whole atmosphere.
Melting ice caps
- Ice in the glaciers and land-based iced shelves of the Greenland and the Antarctic are all melting and all are receding too. All the water created flows into the sea,causing an rise in world sea levels. Rising sea levels
- The sea level's are now rising slowly. In the United Kingdom, it is predicted that the Thames barrier will only protect London until 2070. The sea levels coupled with storm winds can cause serious damage to the coastlines by eroding away all the landmass. To control this, the government spend millions of pounds on the sea defenses every year. Climate change
- Everyone's climate is changing. Within just two years recently, the United Kingdom experienced two 'once in hundred years, floods, each resulting in an huge damage to property's. Our summers seem wetter, and everyone's winters are warmer; this has an effect on plants, trees and other species that rely on the seasons to control all their growth and development, such as deciduous trees.
Flooding could have an devastating affect on everyone's communities. Floods can be caused by:
- lack of maintenance to drainage systems
- higher than normal rainfalls, due to climate change
- large thunderstorms causing a lot of flash floods
- rising level of sea tides
- pump failures.
While the global warming is causing changes to climates across many major land masses, this is having its own impact on biodiversity. A lot of species will need to evolve to adapt to all these changes, or they will become extinct. As species become extinct, the natural order of nature will be upset. For an example, the loss of predators could cause infestations of a lot of locusts or mice.
Local and global context, and the impact on construction
- If everyone includes sustainability locally, in every part of everyone's daily lives, this will have a profound affect globally.
- Currently, less developed countries could sell their carbon quotas to countries that are vast consumers, to balance out the level of emissions; in return, they all receive technologies to help everyone develop. If we are to reduce the change in global temperatures, we all must act together, and every country must meet its agreed targets.
- As far as construction projects go, sustainability now needs to be carefully considered at every stage, from design onward's - and those working in each sector need to plan together how to make projects as sustainable as possible, throughout everyone's life cycles. For an example, turning an building to face south will have an huge effect on the heating and lighting costs.