This is a pressing issue because our Earth is constantly warming and many catastrophic events could occur if global temperatures rise. For example, sea levels could rise and glaciers could melt, destroying the habitats of many organisms including us humans. I strongly believe that climate change is caused by humans and that we need to change our…
Global Warming is unleashing health problems through the world. These affects are expected to worsen if great changes aren’t taking place. More people are dying now from all the heat being released. Natural disasters are beginning to become a problem worldwide. Without a severe change more heat waves, rain storms, tropical cyclones, and surges in sea level will occur frequently.…
Global climate change is a topic that is research and data heavy. Theories cannot be proven and predictions cannot be justified without substantial research. Everyday something new comes out – oftentimes contradicting previous assumptions on the issue. Do we believe in everything presented? No. It is up to us to dissect which ones have substance and are fruits of true research. Critical thinking is required for we cannot blindly follow and believe what is said without forming our own conclusions. This does not assert our freedom as intelligent human beings. Global climate change is a big, important and substantial issue. Actions – what we do, what we believe in and especially what we know can all be a means to produce some kind of difference in the world. If we are too gullible and accepting, we will end up equipped with the wrong data and facts. Information is power and with the wrong information we are useless in bringing about actual change. Certain sectors of society – those who are educated and knowledgeable and those who can think critically can act as catalysts in reshaping the world. Therefore, properly concluding which are truths and fallacies is important especially when we want majority of the public to be well informed on the issue.…
Can anyone remember where they were at on September 11, 2001 when America was attacked? On Tuesday at 8:45 a.m., as American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center, the building shook, and the world came crashing to a halt. The stock market ceased, the airplanes stopped flying, the trains stopped moving, and people stopped working, the world was silent as all eyes were on America. This caused the horrible act of war to begin, which in return began the downfall of the economy…
Global warming is currently the most controversial issue.The debate over global warming has been going all around the world and it seems endless. Depending on one's political view, whether a person is a liberal or a conservative may consider global warming as the biggest challenge facing humanity or one may dismiss, saying it is not real or may simply claims global warming is a hoax. However, there are strong, credible evidences that indicate the extreme and unpredictable weather pattern we have been witnessing like extreme heat, drought, storm , retreating glaciers and the melting of the arctic sea ice, and rising sea level due to climate change caused by human activities. Governments and people around the world should hold hand in hand…
Every countries have problems that need to be dealt with. Some of problems are: eating disorders, rising divorce rate, or homelessness. The most significant problems that I am concerned about is homelessness. Homelessness has already had negative effects on our lives, including social problems, criminal activity and children.…
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Throughout the past few decades the public has been made aware of the many threatening environmental changes happening to the world. This domino effect has proven to be the world’s most wicked problem because of how quickly things tend to escalate. Climate change alone has proven to have the most relationships with other environmental issues happening across the world and that is due to the interdependence of each and every issue. The first step in actually solving this issue is to not only to acknowledge these relationships, but to figure out a solution that can be applied globally.…
In his essays “Kids, Trees, and Climate Change” and “The Green Dream” Mark Hertsgaard informs us of a current would issue that is occurring that was created by humans, global warming. Americans should take global warming as a serious matter because it could extinct some plants or animals due to the climate warming up which is not suitable for some species. Also it creates ice caps to melt at rapid speeds which could lead to parts of the states that live on a border of the ocean to flood. Mark describes the issue and advises what needs to be done by first grabbing our attention. In “The Green Dream” he stated that each year, the United States government purchase 56,000 new vehicles from Detroit for official use.…
Climate Change is not a new issue. There have been attempts all throughout the latter half of the 20th century to curb the effects of climate change, and some of them have even been somewhat successful. Extremely accurate measurements regarding the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere have been taken since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory, and the upward trend of the data gave us notice half a century ago about the changing of the climate. With this notice, several efforts have been made in the past, such as the Kyoto treaty to curb the emissions of these globe warming molecules. With new developments, such as massive superstorms and 100 year storms happening every 5 years, this issue has come to the public eye, and it has fallen upon the…
Climate change is rapidly becoming the largest and most complex challenge facing the world today. The politics, along with climate change skeptics associated with this rising danger, continues to sabotage efforts to curb and control this environmental crisis. As large hurricanes, catastrophic floods, and colossal earthquakes obliterate entire nations around the world, the need of the hour is for the various factions to reconcile their differences and come together to deescalate the effects climate change is having on the world.…
In the past 100 years, the temperature of our Earth has increased by about 4.5 degrees (Guggenheim). This may not seem like a lot, but on a global scale, it can have a huge impact. Global Warming is a serious problem, and it should be taken very seriously. Unless we take action now, we will have major consequences to deal with later on. These include, but are certainly not limited to, extreme weather, a decline in polar life, and effects on human health. It seems like Global Warming has become such a political issue that people tend to take a side based solely on the political party they support. This needs to stop. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, you cannot ignore the facts. The temperature of our atmosphere has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years. Global warming is happening, and action needs to be taken to stop it, no exceptions.…
This week global social problem continues to deals with the environment this week we will be looking at Japan and the Fukushima nuclear power plant spill that they had back in 2011. One would ask what does a power plant spill that happened three years ago has to do with the rest of the world? It becomes a global social problem when the leak is starting to spread through the Pacific Ocean and neighboring countries. “The Japanese government has finally asked for global aid to stem radioactive leaks entering the Pacific Ocean, which is endangering the world’s food supply and ecosystems”. Japan is one of the world largest consumer and exporter of fish; they export 1.6 billion dollars in fish yearly. When fish is one of your main staple in food this does not only impact what you are going to eat but also the amount of money circulating around your country. Appadurai’s scapes is one that I will be using yet again; to begin we have the finance scape due to the spill affecting the ocean and the wild life there the amount of fish that Japan would export and also the amount that the Japanese people would consume decreases because of the food being contaminated. Another one of his scapes would be media scape because of globalization we have access to new reports much faster than we did in the past; because of this advancement more people around the world knows about this situation and because of that more and more researches are pressing Tepco to give clear information about what is really going on with the water. With the advancement that we have in technology the Japanese people are able to make storage tanks that hold water that is supposed to cool the…
Global Warming is an important issue for us to address because it’s hurting our environment. Deforestation leads to the extinction of animals like Orangutans. Pollution leads to a whole in the o-zone layer which then leads to more sun rays coming into earth and warming up the planet. This causes melting ice-caps and rising sea levels which might flood land at some point. There are too many people living on this planet for too many people not to be helping each other take care of our planet. Simple things such as purchasing…
People of all over the world are not conscious of this major problem. Climate change is a big threat to the existance of human…