Environmental Issues In Canada

The largest environmental issue that is effecting the global climate change specially in Canadian society would be global warming. Although global warming and its effects are taking place all around the world, a huge part of the ramifications that we are seeing are taking part in Canada. Global warming has lead to many environmental problems including the melting of the north pole and northern areas as well as forest fires and animal extinction. All of these sub-topics, although speaking specifically to Canada in this research essay, these environmental problems will not only happen throughout the rest of the world but some will possible even create a domino effect. One of the most commonly know events that have taken place due to global warming would be the melting of our northern most areas and rising temperatures throughout the world. The Canadian Arctic has already started to see that havoc that the warming of our planet will reek. The temperature in the arctic and subarctic has already warmed
These forest fires are the main cause of rising temperatures. It is expected that in northern areas such as the Yukon and the Northwest Territories that with the rising temperatures there will be a higher chance of a forest fire erupting in those specific areas (Coward, 76) . In the United States alone, over 3.3 million acres of land was destroyed by forest fires per year between 1989-1998 (Flannigan, Climate Change and Forest Fires 222). Similarly another study from 2005 states that an “average of 5–15million hectares burn annually in boreal forests, primarily in Siberia, Canada and Alaska (Flannigan, Forest Fires and Climate Change in the 21ST Century 1)”. These facts and studies give a clear representation of the damages that will happen world wide to our forests the temperatures continue to