Debate on climate change
Debate on Climate Change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average, for example more or fewer extreme weather events. Climate change may be limited to a particular region or may occur across the whole Earth. I t is a broader context of human dimensions in which insufficient attention has been given to the issues on how to cultivate a cross disciplinary approach to address what is complex and systemic problem. This essay seeks to bring that issue into focus and for the purpose of this essay I shall be discussing, the description of climate change; the western nations too influence by capitalism to effectively deal with this problem with reference to Australia politics. I shall also support my view with what actions from experts should we not take to respond to climate change as well as critically analysing possible solutions to ameliorate the global warming and conclusion.
Climate change is not a new apocalypse; the climate of the earth has always been changing from year-to-year, century-to-century and millennium-to-millennium (charmine EJ Hartel 2010). This is one of the controversial issues going on in Australia politics at the moment (carbon tax) which I shall discuss later on in this topic. One of the greatest challenges that are facing humanity in this century according to Graeme/Pearman (2010) is climate change and degradation of the environment. It has been observed that humans produce this global impact through our use of natural resources, multiplied by the vast increase in population (reproduction & consumption) seen in the past 50 to 100 years . This is also associated with lots of other problems such as reduction of glaciers, loss of critical habitats and so on. There is no doubt that this is a broader context of human dimensions and we
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average, for example more or fewer extreme weather events. Climate change may be limited to a particular region or may occur across the whole Earth. I t is a broader context of human dimensions in which insufficient attention has been given to the issues on how to cultivate a cross disciplinary approach to address what is complex and systemic problem. This essay seeks to bring that issue into focus and for the purpose of this essay I shall be discussing, the description of climate change; the western nations too influence by capitalism to effectively deal with this problem with reference to Australia politics. I shall also support my view with what actions from experts should we not take to respond to climate change as well as critically analysing possible solutions to ameliorate the global warming and conclusion.
Climate change is not a new apocalypse; the climate of the earth has always been changing from year-to-year, century-to-century and millennium-to-millennium (charmine EJ Hartel 2010). This is one of the controversial issues going on in Australia politics at the moment (carbon tax) which I shall discuss later on in this topic. One of the greatest challenges that are facing humanity in this century according to Graeme/Pearman (2010) is climate change and degradation of the environment. It has been observed that humans produce this global impact through our use of natural resources, multiplied by the vast increase in population (reproduction & consumption) seen in the past 50 to 100 years . This is also associated with lots of other problems such as reduction of glaciers, loss of critical habitats and so on. There is no doubt that this is a broader context of human dimensions and we
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