Acting for Our Future

    Everything is changing and the condition of our planet is not exempted. Our climate has been drastically changing over the years which leads to an unavoidable destruction of our planet and the current pandemic also adds to it. Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, destruction of cloud forests, and the extinction of other wildlife species are only some of the indications that our planet is crumbling. Well luckily it is not too late. By raising awareness on global warming and climate change, we can accelerate our actions on extending initiatives in restoring our world’s climate despite the current pandemic.

 

Levels of greenhouse gases and global temperature has remained constant for thousands of years but has been disrupted in the past 150 years due to human activities. The modernization of our lifestyles has significantly enhanced greenhouse effect and warming of the earth in ways that would result to greater negative results. Aside from human activities, volcanic eruptions and variations in solar radiation from sunspots, solar wind, the Earth's position relative to the sun and large-scale weather patterns such as El Niño also affects the earth's condition when it comes to temperature.

    Global warming and climate change has already been set into motion and is now difficult to prevent. However, through mitigation and adaption, it’s adverse effects may be lessened. Through global and local response on recycling and pushing form of energy it can be somehow prevented but the effect of the actions on prevention wouldn't be noticeable for the next few decades for the existing greenhouse gasses would still linger in our atmosphere for a period of time. We should also certainly learn to adapt to the current situation. Learning to live with it for it is already occurring would be vital for our survival.

Our world is certainly changing overtime. Change is inevitable so we must make sure to direct change for the better and not for the worse. Given that our planet is already in a course of change towards it's destruction, it is our responsibility as stewards of this planet to redirect it. The change that we are all hoping for lies in our hands. It is up to us what happens next.

 

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Climate change and consciousness(2020), The way out of a climate crisis is within us. Retrieved on December 9,2020, Retrieved at: https://www.cccearth.org/

Cristina Nunez(2019), Causes and effects of climate change, National Geographic. Retrieved on December 9, 2020, retrieved at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-overview/

Is it too late to prevent climate change? Global Climate Change. Retrieved on December 9, 2020, retrieved at: https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-climate-change/

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