McCain, Obama and the Environment

From Vicky Fan:

The article “McCain, Obama and the Environment” stresses about how important the environmental issues are, and hopefully the new president can bring the environmental issues to the high priority. I do believe the next major war conflict will due to the scarcity of the resources. The United States uses the most oil in the world, and we’re mainly using oil to produce power energy. The reason we’re relying on importing oil resources because it’s cheap! Nuclear power plant or other advanced technologies are very expensive relative to outsourcing oil. I do think that nuclear power plant will contaminate the environment as well. Recently I saw a video introduce about Ocean Power Technologies (OPT), and it’s very interesting. It uses ocean waves to generate power, and I believe it’s a cleaner, safer, and efficient energy for the future use.

I like the article mentions about the concept of “greenpeace”, and we do need a president makes good policies to lower the contamination of the environment. Like the article said “reaching international agreement will be easier if US domestic policy is in step with combating climate change.” The difference between Obama and McCain’s assertion is obama believe nuclear power is the key to resolve the problem. He said “Nuclear power is safe, and it’s clean, and it creates hundreds of thousands of job.” McCain was talking about renewable energy. No matter what kind of method the new president will implement, but I do think it’s very important for the president to enforce some policies. I do think American waste a lot of energy, and it’s really hard for people to live back to the Stone Age to save the recourses. We should start something easy. For example, a lot of offices and stores (like the malls) have their lights open for 24 hours long which is totally unnecessary, and plus there are no people walking around middle of the nights pay attention those commercial displays. The government needs to educate their citizens and enforce the policies in order to really help the environment.