Annotated Bibliography One
Farbotko, Carol. 2010. “Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation”. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 51, (1): 47-60 The journal “Wishful sinking: Disappearing islands, climate refugees and cosmopolitan experimentation” is written by Dr. Carol Farbotko, an Australian environmental scientist. The journal marks the disappearing islands and the climate refugees as an urgent impact of climate changes and discusses some consequences of raising sea level. Author opines that the global climate changes are in crisis through an experiment that imitates the disappearing of low-lying Oceania islands. And also, author points out that the emergence of Tuvalu makes the world start to consider climate changes, but unfortunately, it also creates the possibility of Tuvalu islands and Tuvaluan bodies being eco-colonized. The last, author expresses a moral thought that only if an island actually disappears, people will actually start to deal with climate issues.
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Firstly, the source provides an estimated area of disappearing lands, which will reduce the area where can grow crops, consequently, the demand of food will increase and the price will raise. Thus, unaffordable food price will not benefit Canada. Secondly, the source illustrates that the climate refugees will enter many countries include Canada. Those low-paid labours will impact the Canadian labour market, which is a serious issue to Canadians. Thirdly, the moral thought in the article indicates that climate changes will cause lots of political issues, like eco-colonization. Canada will not stay in peace in a global political chaos. Those negative influences of climate changes in Canada can be evidences to support my
The rise of sea levels are projected to increase warmer waters from one and a half to two degrees in Central North Pacific in 2050, 1.9 to 2.6 degrees in Northern Islands, and also two to five degrees in the Caribbean at the end of this century. This rise of temperature decreases the life of ecosystems in the ocean and resulting in less freshwater for
The article “Cold warriors,” Gregoire (2008) indicates that climate change leads to environmental issues and melting ice, and the scientists’ researches point out climatic issues in Canada. The author comes up with a point that everyone is responsible for protecting the environment because people around the world are bearing negative effects due to climate degradation. For example, residents in Grise Fiord and Inuit notice a huge differences, the landscape is becoming warmer, softer and unpredictable. Moreover, a greater risk of environmental pollution is caused by climate change. In addition to changes in environment, shrinking glaciers, earlier ice breakup, later freeze-up and less snow caused by warmer temperature bring double-edged effects
This passage foreshadows the discovery of Ellen Olenska’s life and motives of evacuating Europe immediately. Since Mr. Sillerton Jackson knows the history of all people with precise detail, he is able to expose the past life of Ellen Olenska in either a positive or negative way. The author’s purpose of including Mr. Sillerton Jackson is for the New York society to have a potential source that will clarify Ellen’s motives of suddenly appearing in New York. Since the New York society favored compacted locations with well known members rather than foreigners, Mr. Sillerton Jackson is able to provide information about Ellen in order for her to fit in with the society. This passage also foreshadows the discovery of many events due to the fact that
What I learned from Laura Bobnaks essay was the way we think in high school is extremely different from what we think when we are adults. In high school, it’s all about doing everything we can to get out of there whether its cheating or studying. It doesn’t matter because in high school no one like a tattle tale or a rat.
A warming ocean has already killed large chunks of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. On April 4, 2017, writer Eduardo Porter for The New York Times published an article called, “To Curb Global Warming, Science Fiction May Become Fact,” intended for the reader of the New York Times. The editorial talks about how if we don’t take action as soon as possible, climate change could indeed become a new thing. Scientist all over the world are discovering many areas throughout the planet that are increasing in temperature, and animals’ homes are being destroyed. The writer is able to create a better understanding on the dangers of a warming planet, by saying the earth is increasing in temperature all over the world, not only affecting different animals,
Global Warming could cause the sea to expand and rise faster than the corals could fortify themselves against it and Tuvalu could disappear beneath the waves.
Lauren has coped with the challenges she has faced by thinking and appreciating everything she has and also by having two jars to fill in blue and pink stones every time if something in her day went negative or positive. According to the article “Unbroken”, cancer survivor Lauren Bendesky states “ The jars were a way for me to see how my journey was going.” Lauren explains. “Whether I was staying positive or when I started to become more negative.” In addition, Lauren also stated “I had so much support all the time. Anytime I was feeling down physically or mentally, my family and friends were always there to keep my spirits up.” This demonstrates how Lauren coped with the challenges she has faced because she kept her spirits up and always
Countries with huge, frozen hinterlands, for example Canada and Russia have a couple of economic benefits. Global warming makes agriculture and mining more possible in those places. It is possibly no coincidence that Russians have always been unwilling to make single-minded climate guarantees and during the time President Vladimir V. Putin has widely inquired the science of climate change. Even though, both Canada and Russia could have some economic benefits because of global warming the world is creating. Scientists from the science of climate change, have faith that those countries with, frozen hinterlands, will suffer from the natural resources they prerequisite. For instance when in Russia there was rapidly fires that are killing millions
Being able to manage your time is very important. There comes a point when time vanishes without even realizing it. Fortunately, with the help of Laura Vanderkam, anyone can gain control of their free time. She writes about time management which includes the many ways any person can utilize all of their time to the equivalence of their priorities. Throughout her presentation, she outlines the key steps in order to gain control of your free time.
Climate change will create a number of health problems in the near future and become a top social issue. Climate will create more smog which will lead to higher rates of and other heat related illness.” Montreal currently has approximately 70 annual heat related deaths, while Toronto has 20. According to the (World health organization,2015). The statistic shows why this has become a social issue because people are dying every year affecting our society. Climate change also affects our world economy. The country is spending a lot of money trying to combat the issue as the country is losing natural resources as well as expected natural disasters are taking place. In 2013 there was an increase in floodings in the Toronto and Vancouver area due to unexpected weather. The clean-up bill came to $1.9 billion — the single most costly disaster in Canadian history — and 90 per cent of it was on the federal tab because Canadians cannot buy flood insurance”(Moore,2015.) As you can see the impacts of climate change leave the government with having to pay massive amounts money when it could be used for other things like creating jobs but that money is often now lost. Climate change has an effect on the environment. The glaciers in the Antarctic are melting as a result of increased amounts of heat now we are losing a part of
Climate change creates significant impacts in the Australian context: in considering sea level rise is one of the most critical condition and as per the IPCC report, in 2100 it will increase by79 centimeters (Department of climate change, 2009). Further, it enhances natural hazards affect on the coastal region as flood, inundation, erosion, and storm surges, which will be a significant threat to the coastal community (Button et al.2013). In addition, sea level rise causes a significant change to beaches, coral reefs, estuaries, wetlands and low-lying islands.
Canada occupies most of the continent of North America and strong actions will be applying to intend to be a climate change leader. Climate change is a global challenge whose impacts will be felt by all countries, impacts that already occurring in different parts of the earth. Climate change one of the sensitive topics that the counties are worried and looking for solutions and Canada wants to be a great leader.
As Earths average temperature increases every year, the discussion of climate change has become a significant topic in the scientific community. Human activities such as powering factories, running automobiles or something as simple as burning wood for heat, emit dangerous greenhouse gases. What makes these greenhouse gases so detrimental is that they absorb the heat radiating off of Earth and keep it in the lower atmosphere creating a “blanket” of warmth around the Earth’s surface. This causes a drastic increase in the Earths average temperature. Due to the rise in temperature, the polar caps have been melting faster than ever, this is dangerous not only because of the risk of floods and sea level increase but ocean water will become less saline and ecosystems will be destroyed, impacting humans just as much as marine life. In the article, Understand faulty thinking to tackle climate change by George Marshall, Marshall states that most people in our world today do not care about climate change because it will not affect them, “Which points to the real problem: climate change is exceptionally amorphous, … no deadlines, no geographic location, no single cause or solution.” (Marshall 2014). Because the author makes it clear that climate change is indeed a great plight, and fails to be acknowledged by people, it is a significant matter that should be discussed
Climate change can affect negatively the economy of an entire nation in so many ways. Rising sea levels and warmer oceans are what makes storms more destructives. Which mean that the more destructive a storm is the most the government would have to spend money trying to fix the disasters that comes with it. When a strong hurricane make landfall, it destroyed everything that it on its way. It destroys houses, roads, bridges, railroad track, airports runways, power lines, dam, levees, and seawalls. All this cost money, and time that the government and the public could’ve avoid if they listen to what the experts said. One probe that one hurricane can affect the economy of a country is the latest hurricane that happened in Puerto Rico, Virgin Island, and Florida, which happens to be part of the United States. Hurricane Maria cause so many damage to the Island of Puerto Rico. A librarian at the university of Puerto Rico describes the condition of the island after it was hit saying 80 percent of the island was without power. Houses, bridges were destroyed, people don’t have enough food to eat, there is not enough drinking water. It’s not clear yet how much it would cost to rebuild the island but there’s been an estimated of 95 billion. This show that if the government priories climate change, things like this would happen less often.
Rising sea levels are caused by the melting of ice which is from the raising temperature in the atmosphere. When the ocean water rises land begins to disappear which puts not only the risk of land not being there, but the risk of the people living there. In the article “Global Warming Impacts” written by a group called, union of concerned scientist write “Global warming is now accelerating the rate of sea level rise, increasing flooding risks to low-lying communities…”. The people that this will be affected are low-lying communities and one of those communities is the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands are located near the equator in the pacific ocean and close to being sea level. Since the temperature has been warming up so much, some parts of this island are being flooded. People there are concerned. Many of the locals aren’t just concerned with their island vanishing, but with their island their culture. New York Times interviewed Linber Anej who has lived on Marshall Islands his whole life, went to a conference in Paris representing his island's concern of having to leave their homes saying “It does not make sense for us to go to Paris and come back with something that says, ‘In a few years’ time, your country is going to be underwater. We see the damage occurring now. We’re trying to beat back the sea.”. What basically is being told is that instead of trying to bring awareness to the Marshall Islands they are just giving them a solution of where they can go after they lose