The Horse 2019/20

Technology & Environment

The Beginning of Earth Death

We have to save our planet from ourselves! Much is said about it, without any effect. But how did 14 billion CO2 ever get into our atmosphere?

This development already began at the beginning of industrialization in the early 19th century. Even then, the earth was exploited to obtain hard coal. Today, this is responsible for environmental pollution. The second problem was the dying forest. The price of wood rose and people switched to hard coal as a new source of energy. The 1st World War was the turning point. During the production of war materials a lot of CO2 was emitted. Also the car production produced much of this destructive gas. It was obvious early on that something had to be changed. But capitalism was already so advanced that they only saw the money. But more than 60 years ago solar energy was produced during the war. The government supported these projects, so that oil could be saved in the country, which was then used for the production of weapons. But this was soon discarded again, as the electrical industry would have suffered a loss of sales and therefore there was no interest on their part. Thus the coal electricity was able to assert itself. From today's point of view this is a catastrophe. I just imagine what the world would look like if solar energy had been further developed since then. The world would not have been so heavily exploited and we would certainly have fewer problems with global warming. Now it is up to all of us to take care of the future of our planet!


The first solar system was developed.

For more information check out this link and watch the video on arte.tv.

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Lars Kläusler, M17a

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