Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken is a book with one hundred solutions that can put a full stop to global warming. This book is published in 2017 by “An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC” in New York, US. This book is 240 pages long with lots of images as well as data tables that elaborate the content and helps the reader understand the concept better. The author talks about the common fear that everyone have in today’s world, climate change, and this book illustrates about 100 different methods and procedures that we can all follow to stop climate change from getting worse. All the methods have daring and accurate solutions that are designed by many international …show more content…
According to the study of Stanford University which estimated about “950 to 1.1 billion acres of deserted farmland around the world” (Hawken 41) has been abandoned because of land degradation and “ninety-nine percent of that abandoned occurred in the past century” (Hawken 41). This gives a perfect explanation to the massive burden on affected workers that climate change challenges is placing, the low rates of pay, rising levels of poverty and poor working conditions in agricultural sector. “Restoration can mean the return of native vegetation, the establishment of tree plantation, or introduction of regenerative farming methods” (Hawken 41) and by converting these degradation lands to recovering agriculture, 14.1 gigatons of carbon could be reduces, additional 9.5 billion ton of food could be produced, as well as, it could provide, on an investment of $72 billion, financial return of $1.3 trillion.
Tourism and industrial recycling, being other major sectors, are also one of the industries that are growing fast globally. The global gross domestic product (GDP) for tourism industry was considered for 10.3 per cent. Tourism is not just a fast-growing industry, but jobs in most economies are created by tourism industry since it demands human-resource. Approximately, “230 million jobs are created in tourism industry and one and a half indirect jobs are created by one direct
In recent years, global climate change due to global warming has been largely researched. The paper, “Global Climate Change Triggered by Global Warming,” offers compelling evidence from various scientific papers that the process of Earth’s climate undergoing significant change has already begun and requires our attention due to the probability that human-generated greenhouse gases are the primary cause. Major focal points are shifting towards determining the causes to mitigate the effects rather than establishing the existence as sufficient amount of evidence has proven that global warming is indisputable. During the final decade of the 20th century, climatologists have concluded that the past millennium to be the warmest, especially in the year of 2005. Solutions towards the cause would require assistance from the population as a whole.
Tourism is perceived as one of the leading industries in the world. “The World Travel and Tourism Council (2001) indicated that tourism creates more than ten percent of the global economic output and 1 in 10 jobs worldwide.”
We have all heard statistics over how unmitigated global warming can lead to rising sea levels, increased temperatures, lower rates of precipitation. The Congressional Budget Office recently found that climate change, if unmitigated, would create costly damage not only to the United States’s economy, but also to the world as a whole (source). Despite a scientific and general consensus that climate change is real and a problem, actual committed action against climate change has been disappointingly slow, until recently. We also know the cause of climate change. The United States EPA finds that “Carbon dioxide accounts for most of the nation’s emissions and most of the increase since 1990” (EPA). What we don’t know is a solution.
Climate change is a problem that we have been and are currently experiencing. It has caused much damage to people and the environment, by temperatures rising and natural disasters. It is a problem that world leaders need to take more seriously, and try to get more people involved to help better the environment. Who knows what it can cause in the future. Climate change is a serious threat for everyone living on earth.
The earth as we know it is steadily changing. Weather its evolution, technology, weather or our environment, nothings is what it used to be. Climate is a major factor that is changing. This has been going on for quite some time yet, not taken seriously. Our planet has been much warmer in the past 2 centuries then ever before and scientist are working frantically to reduce this trend,
The world is home to billions of people, living all across the globe. There are hundreds of countries and they all have different problems. Yet there is one issue that is worldwide, which is global warming. Global warming is a colossal problem to the United States and the world that threatens the very existence of humankind; further action must be taken by the United States’ government in order to minimize and counteract global warming.
Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).
There is an issue on this planet that will define this generation. The issue is climate change. Global warming. A world on the collapse as our oceans are acidified, our air polluted, our forests disappearing, and human rights issues getting worse. It seems that people are not aware of how big climate change actually is. It’s not something that only takes place on the ice caps or in the forests on the far corners of the world. This is an issue that happens here, and now. It’s real. It’s happening.
There is no myth concerning climate change, only vested interests arguing over humanities role in our current climate change event. By careful reasoning and logic this paper sets about systematically showing that not only is climate change real but that currently the planet is experiencing a period of warming that is without equal within any of our historical data. Most confronting of all is that humanity is significantly influencing this current event and has the ability to mitigate the consequences.
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Did you know that Climate change is affecting people all around the world? Climate change is a very bad thing that has been going on for hundreds of years. So many things are being affected by climate change. Things that are being affected are trees, plants, animals, and even people. One reason that climate change is happening is that the earth is always in orbit so the climate is always changing. Climate change isn’t only nature, climate change is caused from humans, the sun, and animals. We are causing climate change by burning things. Scientists predicted this and they’re using models to predict climate change. Snow leopards in the Himalayas are dieing off. Asian Rhinos depend on floodplain grasslands and climate change changes the seasonal patterns the Rhinos go off of. Orang-utans are also one of the species at risk from deforestation. The ice that the Polar Bears use for homes are slowly starting to melt which means they are becoming more and more crowded.
The climate and weather are something that the Energy Sector and its partner cannot change or avoid. At the moment, “energy production and distribution systems are designed to respond to weather variability” for short interval such as day to day, week to week, month to month, or year to year (U.S. Department of Homeland, n.d.-r). Any large-scale disaster may cripple the short-term supply of energy as it stands for the current situation (U.S. Department of Homeland, n.d.-r). To remedy such an issue, the President signed Executive Order 13653 in November 2013 title “” Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change”” (U.S. Department of Homeland, n.d.-r). The Executive Order “established an interagency Council on Climate
We've been told repeatedly throughout the years that our earth's climate continues to change. However, it is rare that during these conversations the possibility of there being an unceasing increase in the temperatures in our oceans due to climate change brought up specifically. There being a potential rise in temperature and the ramifications that such a thing would bring are what this particular article is written about. Even though the study itself took years to conduct, its' initial hypothesis of the various scientists involved was somewhat of a simple one, it was that "[c]limate change will dramatically alter life in the oceans" (Zimmer, 2017). This seems like a pretty safe assumption
Nowadays global warming is the hot topic which is discussed many times and times. Obviously there is no one magic
Through the eyes of most scientists, global warming is seen as a very serious and severe threat. The actions taken by humans, such as industry and consumption of fossil fuels plus the increase in population and agriculture have played a big part in global warming. If something is not done soon the results could be very bad.