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first image: Tristan Arnold. December 6 2016. Colorado State University.
second image: Conserve-Energy-Future. Rinkesh. https://blog.weetas.com/8-signs-you-chose-the-wrong-realtor/
third image: Weetas Blog. March 24 2016. https://blog.weetas.com/8-signs-you-chose-the-wrong-realtor/
fourth image: Used Cars. January 16 2014. https://blog.weetas.com/8-signs-you-chose-the-wrong-realtor/
fifth image: Tristan Arnold. December 6 2016. Colorado State University.

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Tristan Arnold. December 6 2016. Colorado State University.

You may be wondering about CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons), which are the most harmful greenhouse gas. The use of CFC's was eliminated in the 90's, but one CFC can take anywhere from 20-100 years to leave the atmosphere, and have been held accountable for over 80% of atmospheric depletion. Today the only CFC's are found in things like inhalers.

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Another concern I have is that our newly elected president, Donald Trump, has called global warming a hoax before, but I can assure you it is not. CO2 alone accounts for 20% of greenhouse gasses, so if we can eliminate some of the CO2, by driving more eco-friendly cars, and taking public transportation we could make a huge difference.

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If we decide to switch over from coal power to more renewable sources, where will all of these solar panels and wind mills go? Well they may take up a lot of space, but at the same time so do the coal mines. If we just stop mining for coal we can use all of the space being used for those mines and put in thousands of solar panels, and hundreds of windmills. So while space may be of concern, there would be virtually no extra space taken up by the new power sources. 

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One of my main focuses on this blog is the harmful effects that big factories have on the environment with all the waste they put into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels produced by these factories account for 40% of global warming alone, if we could stop the use of fossil fuels in these factories we could be eliminating tons of waste each year. It would be hard to just shut down all of the factories operating in the U.S., and stop the production of a lot of goods we use and need in our everyday lives, so a good alternative would be to switch from the main fuel source of coal to more renewable sources like solar and wind power.

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Tristan Arnold. December 6. Colorado State University.

Global Warming is becoming a growing issue in today's society. Many people seem to underrate the effects of it, and don't really realize the effects that individuals and big factories and companies have on the environment. A lot of times people don't think that they can really make a difference, and don't realize that doing little things like turning off their lights before they leave the house, and turning the heat down in the winter actually do have an effect on the environment. Those people don't realize that by doing little things like turning down the heat 3 degrees in the winter could actually eliminate about 1,500 pounds of waste from the atmosphere each year alone.

P3 Blog

For this project, I will probably go outside topics in Ethics in Higher Education. I still do not know what topic I want to write about specifically, but my choices so far are either the history of architecture or the effects of alternative sources of energy. The reason I chose these topics is because I have passion for architecture and I enjoy all aspects of it and for the impacts of alternative energy is because I have done quite some research on it and written papers and I think it would be easy for me to develop a research paper about it. At the moment I am leaning more towards alternative energy simply because I have vast knowledge about it and it’s still a debatable topic of our time. The question I mainly have is “Does alternative energy bring more positive than negative changes to our lives?”. The overall aim is to show whether or not the alternative energies that currently exists are a viable change for the current form of energies that we use. Potential stakeholders for this issues can be the people who work at electricity companies and generally every person who has to pay for such services. It seems logical that mostly owners and maybe those who work power plants will be resistant stakeholders because they can either lose their job or lose a considerable amount of money because it will not be as profitable.. The average person would probably be more inclined towards alternative energies as it would lower costs in general. I would rather persuade the resistant stakeholder to use these alternative energies since they are who have most to lose and it can be a hard transition. My main objective of this research paper is not necessarily to persuade stakeholders to change their opinion, but rather do a well-documented paper and let the reader decide by him or herself if changing to alternative energies is the best decision, or maybe even encourage other to try to find different types to create energy and use it in our everyday lives. I have quite a few concerns for P3 to be honest. Length being the biggest one. Generally, when I write papers I tend to be very concise, especially since English is my second language, and trying to achieve my purpose and having such an amount of length does make slightly worried. Sometimes it can be an obstacle to get to a required amount of words but I think that starting early and going to the writing center for some assistance can help me out to overcome this. Another concern that I have is the amount of time that we have. There’s still like 5 weeks or so left which doesn’t sound bad, but when you have daily homework and tests every week, almost everything new becomes a bit overwhelming, or so it seems at least for me. Other than these factors, I am not worried about anything else since there is a large amount of information in books, articles and the internet to complete this project.