Climate change is the biggest challenge of our lifetime. Centuries of pollution & deforestation have led to global warming, rising seas, and a plethora of natural disasters. What is it, what can we do to fix it?
One measurable aspect of cc is global warming. Greenhouse gases are Carbon Dioxide. Methane. Nitrous Oxide. Fluorinated Gases made from factories. car, and from animals that are from the farm, caw is the main problem the fart from makes Methane. Which rises into the hemispheres and it traps in heat from the sun, all those gases make the earth warm ice sheet on the northern and southern hemispheres are melting and the results of it are that the sea level is rising.
Another devastating component of climate change is deforestation. Deforestation is when forests are obliterated, causing less produced oxygen and less carbon dioxide is absorbed. This excess carbon dioxide is then released into the atmosphere contributing to the greenhouse effect. A famous example of deforestation is the culling of trees in the Amazon forest. The Amazon rainforest is the world, home to 390 billion trees. People are cutting native rainforests to plant palm oil and other food sources. The immediate result of this is that animal's habitat is destroyed. The plight of the orangutang is known around the world. They are a symbol of fighting against climate change. The longer-term effect is that certain species have become endangered and even extinct. Damage to the land caused by agriculture is often permanent.
Saving the rainforests would help minimize the long-term impact of global warming.
A third factor contributing to climate change in agriculture. Agriculture is farming with animals. Cows produce a lot of methane through farting and belching which is a greenhouse gas. Agriculture requires huge amounts of land which could be used for forests/rainforests and as habitats for native species. Another damaging part of agriculture is the damage done to local waterways (E.g. rivers and streams) through the fecal matter and urine of those animals. The water gets polluted, also fish who live there die. In New Zealand, there are 26.6 million sheep and 10.1 million cattle. If people ate less meat, we wouldn’t need so much land for agriculture and we wouldn’t be damaging local waterways as well.
Global warming is causing rising gas through the meeting of Antarctica and the Artie. The largest concentration of ice on earth is in the arctic Northern hemipenes and Antarctica. These places have glaciers and ice sheet which hold an extremely large amount of water. Ice sheets are massive flat platforms that move on ice, glaciers form overland. Solar energy and greenhouse gasses increased
Many actions can be taken to reduce the impact of climate change. Some of these can be done by individual people, such as not using plastic bags, putting your rubbish in the bin, and recycling any plastics you use. Actions that every community should take are to have lots of rubbish bins available, plant lots of trees and native bushland, use wind farms and solar panels where you can. At a national level, actions New Zealand can take are planting more trees, conservation programs for native species, introducing laws and policies that limit overfishing, and monitors the deforestation of native timbers. Both individuals and countries should be responsible for the rubbish they let into their oceans and waterways. Every country should actively be trying to increase of bees they have in their land. The biggest would be global, companies stopped burning fossil fuels as this would minimize the greenhouse gases that are entering the atmosphere.
One scientific study found that only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of the world's carbon emissions. There are four petrol companies (ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron) that are the highest emitters in the world. Another thing consumers can look for is what products they buy - some products use palm oil which is the reason for a lot of deforestation. People should buy palm oil-free products. There are lots of ways both individuals, groups, and governments can make a difference in reducing climate change.
In conclusion, climate change is a terrible problem that is the #1 concern facing our planet. If we do not take the actions discussed, within a century our planet will have irreversible damage, and our children and grandchildren will not enjoy the world in the way we did. It is up to every person to make a change.
