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Are Ice Caps Good Or Bad

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The ice caps are melting at an alarming rate and this mostly due to global warming. The reason why there is global warming is that there is a hole in our ozone layer, which protects living organisms from the harmful rays of the sun. Pollution from factories, cars, and other material that runs on fossil fuels is the main reason for pollution. When the rays of the sun hit the ice caps, the ice caps start to melt and then that causes the sea level to rise, which will cause cities to flood more often. If the ice caps keep melting, some cities might even go underwater because of global warming. If the ice caps keep melting it can also expose humans to diseases that have been frozen for hundreds of years. Many animals will lose their habitat because of the melting ice caps, they will have to move to a different area, and they could cause great destruction because they might become invasive species or they may perhaps die off and become extinct. To …show more content…

Companies that commit these crimes should have a punishment that is harsher because they are affecting people in the surrounding area and also they are contributing to making the hole the ozone bigger because of the toxic chemicals that is spewing from their factories. When they pollute the air they are contributing to making the hole in the ozone layer bigger, and that will cause the sun’s rays to melt the ice caps at an even faster rate.
In conclusion, ice caps are an essential part of the earth and without it the earth will drastically change forever. Some living organisms will become extinct because those organisms depend on the ice caps to protect them some ways to stop or even slow down the melting of the ice caps is by enforcing the laws and punish people if they do not follow these laws. The diseases that have been frozen away for hundreds of years will occur again because the ice is melting

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