The hidden existential hazard of Climate Change
The climate of Earth has strikingly changed throughout life. These cases lead to small differentiation in the orbit of Earth which increased the amount of solar energy which Earth receives. Moreover, as Scientific Consensus (2012) reports, ninety-five percent of climate scientists exactly agree that climate-warming trends are very clearly because of human practices. As reported in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Scientific confirmation for the warming of the climate method is unequivocal fact. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the current warming trend is of specific consequence as most of it is the outcome of the human activity without questions. In most recent studies, Climate Change has been measured in many ways such as Satellites. Earth-orbiting satellites and other high technological advances have provided researchers to see the problems in an extensive picture, obtaining various information about the Earth and its climate in big scale. Throughout the years, these data collected and warns people about changing the weather. There are many countries suffer from climate change such as China, Thailand. In addition, Antarctica is an obvious example of climate change because Ice Mountains glaciers are significantly related to Earth’s climate. From past to present, the average of temperature has risen about 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 Celsius) and this pitch driven extensively by increased human practices and carbon dioxide into the air according to researchers at Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS, NASA) in New York. As reported by the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, it is Climate Change that is a serious threat to our environment, society, and lifespan. Yet a prosperous, inclusive and low carbon world is possible. There is no doubt that climate change is an existential threat to humankind. This paper reviews the evidence for climate change in many respects such as global temperature rise, extreme weather events, decreased snow cover, and ocean acidification. Environmental pollution constitutes the greatest threat to human survival because of the range of announced evidence demonstrates that exact damage costs of environmental problems are to be critical and to increase over time in many respects.
To begin with, only 5 percent of people are breathing healthy air according to Global Air Report. Air pollution is placed on the top of climate change as we produce 80 percent of energy from fossil fuel and it poses heavy chemicals to the air we breathe. As reported by Pushker Kharecha and James Hansen in 2015, coal and gas are a whole lot more than nuclear power. Recently, scientists have shown an increased interest in deaths caused by air pollution. World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) pointed out that air pollution has an impact on every region around the world. In global, about 7.5 % of deaths, 6 million people, were caused by air pollution in 2016. What is more, the early risk of stroke, heart disease, and internal diseases such as liver and intestinal cancer risks are going to peak up unless the quality of air increase. Additionally, University of Louisville (2016) proved there is a link between blood vessel damage and toxicological substances.
As most people expect, Particulate pollution ranked the top as health risks posed by particulate substances on the air all around the world. It is also growing due to lack of awareness and improvements such as environmental laws. Carbon dioxide which is the leading pollutant contributes to global temperature rise. Today, cars, facilities, and air vehicles emit great-scale carbon dioxide in the world. It can be said that every individual has responsibility the scale of carbon dioxide that put into the atmosphere.
Likewise, plastic pollution negatively impacts the environment and causes vexed problems not only to wildlife and but also to humanity as most of the plastics to contain toxicological chemicals and we use it every part of the life. Therefore, we have to see the exact impact of climate change in warming the Earth. Furthermore, it is all but impossible to extinguish plastics totally as it includes toxic substances. The most convincing part is that plastic waste ruins food chain and pollutes both seawater and drinking water. Greenpeace accused of global goods and foods companies which use the most plastic such as Coca Cola, Nestle, Danone. Such these companies do not transparent about plastic policies. Wildlife and people easily affect hazardous plastic chemicals and microplastics carries an existential risk, too. Therefore, plastic is one of the significant driving factors of climate change. Last but not least, Reuters (2008) proved that microplastics in many cases are associated with permanent disease such as diabetes. It is plastic related to strong greenhouse gases such as methane.
It is not only plastic pollution that poses a threat but our everyday exposure to chemical compounds such BPA which are found in household products. Since it is used most across the world, exposing to BPA is omnipresent. Most of the commercial products contain BPA (bisphenol A) such as canned foods, household electronics. Sperm functions of men decrease negatively by the toxic effects of BPA damages the sperm cells and it loses its beneficial semen quality. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health (NCBI) (2016) evaluated that exposing even small pieces of BPA was attached with decreased the count of sperms in laboratory rat age 10,11. Moreover, its DNA was got changed as the deleterious effect. The debate about BPA has gained fresh prominence with many arguing that BPA brakes the original structure of sperm DNA and it is obvious to understand by the recent studies released by Fourth Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.
On the other hand, there is published scientific papers by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as a result of extending anthropogenic chemical emissions, the impressive results of CO2 have risen. It is often called that ocean acidification is the twin of climate change due to the fact that it emits great CO2 to the atmosphere and this occurs under the water that we cannot see the disastrous impacts. By the time have read this about 20 million tons of CO2 will have absorbed by oceans according to one study published in the European Science Foundation. One major issue in early Ocean Acidification research concerned, it is about chemistry. When the power of Hydrogen decreases in the seawater, oceans become more acidic. Moreover, marine species exposure it when they breathe. In terms of biological response, increasing of drastic CO2 emissions lead to negative impacts on biodiversity.
There is only limited information about biological impacts the environment of marine but, International Coral Reef Initiative (2007) highlighted that one more drawback of ocean acidification was that 70% of the species will be vanished by 2100. Oil spills also have a long-term enormous impact on the ocean. For instance, about 250 million gallons of oil leaked into the Persian Gulf when the Gulf War began in 1991. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at Unesco (1992) announced that ocean ecosystems and fish species were vanished because of the permanent leakage of oil. The most convincing part is that extreme weather conditions also pose danger for humanity because extremely strong tornadoes, gigantic floods, and horrible wildfires, plus there is a strong connection to climate change. Water can be remarkably lethal. Floods are one of the natural disasters and causing an increase in climate change in terms of crop damage, habitat loss and as a result of that, it causes flooding-related diseases. Today, in many parts of the world, flood leads to loss of life and living space than other catastrophic weather events. A strong relationship between floods and an existential threat has been reported in such areas of agriculture, clean water many studies. A report by Organization of World Economic Cooperation Forum and Development (2007) announced that about 150 people lose their lives as the damage of the severe floods every year and this number doubled in 2018 in the United States. Global Flood Monitoring System (2016) studies have highlighted numerous cities are in danger due to the risk of flooding such as Shenzen, Guangzhou in Asia. Unlike other natural disasters, most wildfires are occurred by human activities. Research published by NASA (2016) showed that forest fires genuinely warm the world extensively. Also, there is a long-lasting consequence comes from great size fires. Moreover, the current National Geographic study (2016) found that about 400,000 people are killed by wildfire smoke and smoke has also a connection with the asthma attacks.
The cost of climate change billions of dollars per year, and as such, is one of the biggest existential problems which requires urgent elimination. This paper gives a brief summary and critique of the findings. Yet, as the old adage goes: Nature does not need people, but people do. The major problems for countries are that they do not concern the consequences of climate change such as America. The president of the US Donald Trump insists on thinking climate change is a hoax. The key problem with this explanation is that climate change has been an existential problem for years even before the beginning of the ninetieth century. A serious weakness with Trump’s argument, however, is that it runs into a contradiction with the clear scientific evidence. The debate about the causes of environmental problems have been increased between the scientific community and the countries that do not concern. There is are a significant link between climate change and human activities supported by scientific evidence and shows dramatic results. It is the consequences of toxic wastes that we can see every part of life even the deepest point of the ocean. Even though big countries and companies aware of scientific consensus, they do not take an action and investing in alternative systems properly assigning some climate agreement and be satisfied to be on the right side. To coin a phrase, there is no light at the end of the tunnel if the awareness of climate change does not increase. It pollutes the water that is vital for farming and industry. From plastic pollution to ocean acidification environmental analyses show the critic increase of major disaster. Even if there are some beneficial things we can do for the environment such as being informed, eat, travel, buy sustainably, and prefer to use renewable energy sources, we are disregarding remarkable facts. It is the Earth that life only exists in here. Unfortunately, it is under the risk of extinction. If it continues to increase, there will be wars for clean water and clean air like never before.
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