Green Technology : Making A Move To Change From Fossil Fueled Lifestyle

By Fadzli Ramli MELAKA (Malaysia), July 21 (Bernama) -- For hundred of years, humans have used fossil fuels such as coal, petrol, diesel and gas to produce energy for their daily use, rendering a comfortable life for humans all around the world. So it is human nature when humans find it hard to change from something that give them a comfortable life but experts, interviewed by Bernama recently, said change must be made because fossil fuels would not be sustainable and had devastating effects for mother earth. According to the experts, green technology and lifestyle is a must for humans to continue their daily lives but the question now is how to make the change easier, what must change and what must not. India-based Environmental Management Centre executive president, Dr Prasad Modak said change from fossil fuels dependencies to green technology could not be made directly and step-by-step plan must be made to make the transition easier and acceptable. "The best way to let people understand green technology and lifestyle is to demonstrate and communicate to them in explaining this so they can understand the need to change," he said. Modak said green pilot projects like solar panel to generate power must be implemented so people could see for themselves the benefits of green technology while explanation must be made so they truly understand the technology. He said by implementing pilot projects, people would see they had an option beside fossil fuels. On the need to make the younger generation understood the importance of green technology and lifestyle, he said a good education and awareness programmes was a must in schools, early educational centres besides collaboration with non-governmental organisations and private companies. Former Unhabitat Youth Empowerment Ecological Safety Project deputy director, Dr Tee Ching Seng said the steps to change to green technology must take into consideration the advancement of the technology itself. "I believe we cannot rapidly replace fossil fuels needs we have now to green technology because green technology have not develop advanced enough to act as replacement, so the steps to change must see what we can change and what must not," he said. Tee, a doctorate holder in Economic Ecology from St Petersburg Academy of Ecology and Life Sceince Protection in Russia, said policy also played a major part to change to green technology whereby steps must be made by policy makers to produce 'greener policy' to make is easier for the people to adapt to a greener lifestyle. Nusantara Academy of Development, Geocultures and Ethnolinguistics founder Ahmad Najib Ariffin said geographical factors must be taken into consideration when adapting to green technology so the technology could serve the people efficiently. He said, Malaysia also needed to choose which green technology fitted the country best and according to him hydroelectric dams and solar power farms could work well. However he said wind turbines were not an option because Malaysia did not have enough wind power to efficiently generate power to fullfil the needs of the people. -- BERNAMA