Elevators and Escalators
I feel like that the elevators and escalators in Baruch College are self defeating because of the enormous amount of energy that they consume. Six days a week Baruch College is generating so much electricity that can be avoided by merely removing the escalators. This will force more people to use the stairs, improve our environment, and allow people to exercise more. Exercise is super important because exercise prevents diseases, improves stamina, enhances flexibility, controls weight, and improves your quality of life. By taking the stairs every day and removing our escalators, we can exercise more often and ultimately improve our life. Electricity can harm the environment because when fossil fuels are burned, it creates carbon-dioxide which caused pollution. Most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gases. Whenever fossil fuels are burnt they release carbon dioxide that has been stored in the fuel for millions of years. This carbon dioxide adds to the greenhouse gases in the environment that are contributing to global warming. Most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.
The removal of our elevators will also be beneficial because of the same reasons that I listed above. Since Baruch College has eight floors, it is unlikely that the Baruch College will remove the elevators completely, so we should compromise and remove some elevators. If that is not possible than Baruch should reprogram the elevators to go to certain floors instead of each elevator only going to the second, fifth, and eighth floors. This will allow fewer elevators to be used because many times two elevators are called at once. I haven’t made any efforts to address this issue because I don’t feel like this issue is so important. I am just making a suggestion that will improve our lives and keep our environment around longer.
