Are we within our rights to pressure LEDCs into reducing emissions when we have been the most guilty when we were industrialising
Are we within our rights to pressure LEDCs into reducing emissions when we have been the most guilty when we were industrialising?
Global warming is the gradual rise of the Earth’s temperature caused by a layer of gases such as CO2 and methane not allowing the suns heat to go back into space hence heating it further. These gases are called greenhouse gases.
We do have the right:
We do have the right to tell LEDCs to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases that they emit. The global temperature is rising rapidly and if developing countries do not help reduce the levels of greenhouse gases then it will be disastrous for the whole world. If this was only effecting them then it would have been okay but this endangers everyone. The consequences of climate change are huge and include the increase of natural disasters and possibly a global wipe out. If the world’s average temperature rises by 1˚c then there will be hurricanes and droughts, deserts will spread onto fertile lands, ice will melt and there will be a lot of food shortages. The Earths average temperature has already risen 0.8˚ in a century and it is still inkling rapidly. When we were industrializing we did emit a lot of greenhouse gases but then it wasn’t known that greenhouse gases have such harsh effects, if we had known surely the industrial revolution wouldn’t have occurred. Now, however, the whole world is aware of the consequences of global warming yet LEDCs still carry on emitting a lot of greenhouse gases. Scientists predicts that in 100 years Greenland and the Himalayas will be gone and the Amazon would have turned into a savannah. There are 383 CO2 molecules in every million and the dangerous level is 450 parts every million. Just the United States and China, the top two in the amount of CO2 released, add up to make approximately 30% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Persuading other countries easier to reduce their emissions would be much easier than spending tens of millions of pounds trying to
Global warming is the gradual rise of the Earth’s temperature caused by a layer of gases such as CO2 and methane not allowing the suns heat to go back into space hence heating it further. These gases are called greenhouse gases.
We do have the right:
We do have the right to tell LEDCs to reduce the levels of greenhouse gases that they emit. The global temperature is rising rapidly and if developing countries do not help reduce the levels of greenhouse gases then it will be disastrous for the whole world. If this was only effecting them then it would have been okay but this endangers everyone. The consequences of climate change are huge and include the increase of natural disasters and possibly a global wipe out. If the world’s average temperature rises by 1˚c then there will be hurricanes and droughts, deserts will spread onto fertile lands, ice will melt and there will be a lot of food shortages. The Earths average temperature has already risen 0.8˚ in a century and it is still inkling rapidly. When we were industrializing we did emit a lot of greenhouse gases but then it wasn’t known that greenhouse gases have such harsh effects, if we had known surely the industrial revolution wouldn’t have occurred. Now, however, the whole world is aware of the consequences of global warming yet LEDCs still carry on emitting a lot of greenhouse gases. Scientists predicts that in 100 years Greenland and the Himalayas will be gone and the Amazon would have turned into a savannah. There are 383 CO2 molecules in every million and the dangerous level is 450 parts every million. Just the United States and China, the top two in the amount of CO2 released, add up to make approximately 30% of the world’s CO2 emissions. Persuading other countries easier to reduce their emissions would be much easier than spending tens of millions of pounds trying to