How Transport Affects Climate Change

Everyone uses transport as many consider it a necessity, it could be a bus, a train, or a car to name just a few. But with approximately 7.8 billion people on this planet, how does transportation play a part in the ever-changing topic that is climate change. In this blog I will mention how pollution attributes to transportation and ways in which we can overcome the negative impacts on the world caused by climate change.

This video uploaded on the Student Energy Youtube channel contains detailed information as to how vehicles contribute to greenhouse gasses. The usage of transportation leads to detrimental effects on the climate. Some of the worries that arise from the usage of transportation include air, noise and light pollution. In this blog I will mention what I do to combat this issue.

My goal in reducing the amount of pollution in the atmosphere is to avoid the usage of transport that requires fossil fuels in favour of walking or cycling. Cycling has been made much more available to citizens of Ireland through the new Coca Cola bike scheme that was introduced on the 13 September 2009. Here is a map of the bikes available in just a small part of Dublin alone which I found on the irishcycle.com website. But I realise that just my actions alone will not have a great affect so I plan on informing as many people in my community(and hopefully those people will inform others) about the simple solutions that can be taken to avoid damaging the climate even more than it already has been.

A petition to make public transport free can also be created. Public transport can be regarded by many as to be a basic human resource. The petition may have a chance of reaching the government and perhaps initiate change to the amount of people that use public transport. One European country has already moved the cost of a bus ticket into taxes for more information click on the link.

For a cleaner climate all we need to do is integrate very minor inconveniences into our daily lives, but it will improve the lives of the future generations, the wildlife that coexists with us and the natural world.