In the video ,an inconvenient truth, the speaker, former Vice President Al Gore, mentions a lot about government effort to reduce problems of global warming and they even come out with policies and rules to reduce the emission of green house gases. Policies of my government in Singapore has contributed greatly in reducing the problem of global warming in a lot of ways.
Firstly, since the early 1990s, Singapore has been participating actively in world environment project such as Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF), the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (MCED) and the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment. This shows that our government realise the importance of reducing environmental problem. This is extremely important because they feel a felt need for the change, without this felt need, government bodies may not treat environment problem seriously and they might spend their expenses on other areas such as development, education and neglecting environmental issues.
Due to this felt need created, Singapore actively participate in environmental project and also focus on educating the public about the environmental problem. In 1997, Singapore adopted the Kyoto Protocol. This is a huge spend by Singapore in reducing problems of global warming. In this Kyoto protocol, government pledge to decrease their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an average of five percent against 1990 level over a five-year period 2008-2012 (http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php). Singapore since then employs policies that encourages companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One such example is the tuas power station, it has consistently exceeds the environmental regulatory standards set out by the national environment agency and has turn towards natural gas as their main fuel source (http://www.tuaspower.com.sg/tuas3.asp ).
Lastly, government has employ heavy fines on excessively use of household electricity, water and amount of cars is controlled by the government. By employing heavy fines on excessively use of household electricity, people will tend to cut down on their electricity usage to avoid getting fine and this in turns lead to less energy being used thus it helps reducing the greenhouse gases emission by reducing the amount of fuel needed to be burn. Also, amount of cars are controlled by the government, this will reduce the amount of GHG produced by the cars and this in turns help reduce problems of global warming.
Overall, I think that our government has done a great job in handling our environmental problems and I trust in it that it help reduce our environmental problems and make our earth a better place.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
EG 1471
Engineers are so versatile in the world today. A lot of engineers have turned into areas such as banking, marketing, sales and many other more. Engineers are able to do because of their strong systematic way of thinking and their analyzing skills.
With regards to Prof. Ramakrishna’s article, “The Expanding World of Engineers” where he states that “an engineer’s training helps to systematically analyze complex information and apply a holistic (systematic) approach in designing solutions.”
The reason why engineers are able to do so is due to the tedious and tough education that they have been through. An engineer achieve such analytic skills from long years of practicing analysis questions. However, to analyze something, one must have prior knowledge of it. Tertiary education prepares engineers with the required knowledge in their respective fields and required solution. Also, engineers in today's world are now required to take subjects outside their faculty and this would allow them to better understand how other areas out of engineering works. Thus, it would allow them to come out with a more effective solution to solve the problems faced by other sector.
Engineering students are also given chances to gain working experience even before they graduate. Programmes such as the industrial attachment, work and travel gives engineering students a chance to experience work life and better understand the problems faced. This will help them to analyze and provide solutions better when they graduate. Lastly, engineering students are also trained to build up their communicative skills. This is done so by having students doing research, lab experiments and other activities in a group. This would train them to better communicate with each other, and this would help them in their future working environment.
In conclusion, I believed that it is the education that engineers been through that allow them to analyze complex information and provide clear and orderly solutions.
With regards to Prof. Ramakrishna’s article, “The Expanding World of Engineers” where he states that “an engineer’s training helps to systematically analyze complex information and apply a holistic (systematic) approach in designing solutions.”
The reason why engineers are able to do so is due to the tedious and tough education that they have been through. An engineer achieve such analytic skills from long years of practicing analysis questions. However, to analyze something, one must have prior knowledge of it. Tertiary education prepares engineers with the required knowledge in their respective fields and required solution. Also, engineers in today's world are now required to take subjects outside their faculty and this would allow them to better understand how other areas out of engineering works. Thus, it would allow them to come out with a more effective solution to solve the problems faced by other sector.
Engineering students are also given chances to gain working experience even before they graduate. Programmes such as the industrial attachment, work and travel gives engineering students a chance to experience work life and better understand the problems faced. This will help them to analyze and provide solutions better when they graduate. Lastly, engineering students are also trained to build up their communicative skills. This is done so by having students doing research, lab experiments and other activities in a group. This would train them to better communicate with each other, and this would help them in their future working environment.
In conclusion, I believed that it is the education that engineers been through that allow them to analyze complex information and provide clear and orderly solutions.
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