Encountering Conflict

Recently, I’ve realized I don’t know much about climate change at all, and I’m sure that most of the human race is of the same standard as me. We go through our daily lives believing that our planet will stay the same, but we’re wrong. With every passing hour, our climate is making drastic changes. Over the past years, the water levels have been rising, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, icebergs are melting, and pollution is

Climate change; the two words that have sparked controversy across the media in recent decades, has been highlighted as one of the greatest environmental threat to humanity in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). With the current warming of the climate considered as “unequivocal”, the report drew attention to the numerous consequences, future projections, and how the expected impacts could be potentially alleviated. This new report has brought back the issue of climate change and global warming to the forefront of public and political debate, asking the question: is climate change real and should we really care?

Many people think that climate change is a hoax, something fabricated completely beyond our measures but they are wrong. Climate change is a global issue that I am extremely passionate about solving simply because it is effecting us as people along with our environment. In order to strive in our lives we have to live in a safe, healthy environment. Having a drastic change in the climate has prompt the earth to be ruined and hazardous to every organism that lives on it based on conditions that human activity has caused. According to the Environmental Defense Fund (Migration and Climate Change 2017), "We’re the ones who burn fossil fuels and clear trees that absorb carbon dioxide, sending heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere," which is only triggering more disastrous events to take place within our climate likewise to our environment.

I ask you to act consciensously, to start a movement and make a change, save the planet. Stop climate change and save the planet, save the world. Leave to your grand childrens and future generations coming an earth they will be proud of, leave them a place they can call home like you so dearly did. Let the planet be, let her live and stop killing her. The earth is slowly becoming a garbage because of climate change, global warming, pollution, excessive use of fossil energy … What will be left for them ! You are leaving them to clean up the mess you

Climate change is a change in global or regional climate patterns. Climate change is a topic that is brought up in many different genres of conversations. Whether it be brought up and discussed in politics, school, family, or friends, some people still limit using those words when in casual conversation. Some of those same people are the people who still deny that climate change is happening. Climate change affects every single one of us. It affects everyone who lives on this earth every day and has long term damages that researches can not even predict yet. A new survey finds that 70 percent of Americans believe the climate is changing, this poll is from Monmouth University in January, 2016. A lot of people are on the fence about supporting climate change and question whether or not the government should take a stand for reducing climate change. As a teen and an upcoming young adult, living in a clean and healthy world means a lot to me. Climate change is not a recent problem, it has been happening for many years. I will be sharing both sides of the climate change argument and explaining the steps the government could take to reduce these changes in our environment. I will also explain why there is such a resistance among parts of the community toward climate change.

Over the past century, the Earth has experienced a dramatic change in temperature and we need to work to reverse it. Politicians have debated the idea of climate change for years now and nothing has really been done to improve the situation. Some politicians have been exposed to the facts about climate change, while others believe in a hypothetical theory that the Earth goes through “cycles”. The government needs to stop arguing and act now, to educate the public and regulate the phenomenon of climate change, before it is too late.

The biggest problem with climate change today is the debate on whether or not human activity is responsible for our current warming trend. According to Jonathon Schuldt (2014:219), around 99.7% of climatologists agree that man-made climate change is a reality, while only 40% of Americans believe that humans are the main driver. This is because we live in societies in which, thanks largely to the internet, everyone is free to express an opinion. On the issue of climate change, we have tons of sites saying one thing, as well as tons of sites saying something the complete opposite. According to Schuldt (2014:224), politicians, the media, and the public have hijacked the global warming debate. The big problem with these groups trying to control the debate is that they do not think in a scientific way like climatologists. According to Schuldt (2014:222), there is clear evidence that the polar icecaps are continuing to melt and the arctic ice is disappearing, but still people deny global warming is occurring. This has led to the science of global warming being thrown out of the window and according to Mazo (2014:47), has slowed the momentum of national and international efforts to prevent climate change, to the point where it will be politically impossible to succeed.

We as a population must come together to face the biggest problem in the world or face imminent destruction. Since the industrial age, the Earth’s temperature has risen 2 degrees celsius.(Sutter, 2) Humankind has shaped the Earth to what it is today by destroying land, building factories, real estate, burning fossils fuels, and even by just driving a motor vehicle around. This all led to the epidemic we call today as global warming. Taking a stance to make a change against global warming is very important but it also might be too late. Global warming is real and it is one of the biggest problems civilization faces.

In just under fifty years, a topic that was once considered controversial, causing people to avoid discussions on it for reasons ranging from denial to discomfort, has evolved from those unpleasant debates to today’s friendly conversations. The topic is climate change, and the controversy surrounding it has been rooted in disagreement on what exactly causes it. Some say that climate change is a hoax and the changes are part of a natural cycle of the Earth’s climate system. Others are positive that it is the direct result of human activities and without immediate action, the planet will become inhospitable to human life. Then, there are those who are in-between, not sure which side to take, but are aware that something is happening to the global climate system.

Global climate change is a hot point of contention on an international scale. This subject went from ridicule, mockery, and doubt to massive grassroots and nonprofit movements, heated debates, and media headlines. Though there exists scientific research that dates back into the mid 20th century regarding impending climate change, the subject was not take seriously by massive audiences until the 21st century. At first the debate over global warming was whether or not it existed. The debate has evolved into whose fault is it and strategies for counteracting or reversing the damage. The paper will provide a brief history of this debate as well as a current understanding of both side of the argument. The paper aims to define ways in which humanity both contributes and combats global climate change.

Climate change is one of the biggest topics this generation will face, it is up to us to decide what conditions we want people generations ahead of ourselves to live in. I am going to show the science behind what is happening, but also how it effects me and other individuals in society and how they understand it.

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and judges. Today I'm coming to speak to you about one very urgent matter, climate change. Now bear with me here, I'm assuming that everyone here is aware of climate change if not you will. Climate change is the change of the average temperature in earth's atmosphere and oceans. Now earth's temperature is always changing and will continue to change, but the way we're going it's not for the better. Now I'm sure at least one of you have heard a politician or someone like that saying climate change isn't actually true it's a hoax, I'm here to prove that wrong. Now it's easy to remain ignorant but at this point, we must face the truth, the facts are there.Now let us begin.

Scientific evidence for the warming of earth’s climate is doubtful. Earth is undergoing a gradual increase in the overall temperature of earth’s atmosphere. Climate change is no longer an environmental issue but not contributing to a social issue, which affects every person’s lives in several different ways and intensities. Climate change is an economic, social, and environmental issue. Acceptance of climate change is the first step in a positive acknowledgment to advance forward in handling this issue. Climate change has become an issue prevalent in people’s lives rather than just the environment. The issue is not that the world has more carbon dioxide, and it is not that the world is warmer. The issue here is the speed at which the world is changing. The biggest issue is the blind side our population is willing to turn to the matter.

The last time our planet sustained temperatures as high as the present, was millions of years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth. Civilization has greatly progressed since then in areas such as technology and the arts, but with this development comes an increased standard of living for humans. In order to keep up with the industry and production of this age, our population releases environmentally harmful substances like greenhouse gases into the air every day. In recent decades’ findings, these substances have been found to trap heat in the atmosphere over time, contributing to global warming. To cut these emissions completely would bankrupt the world’s struggling, industry-dependent economy. Knowing that this isn’t a threat that will peak in our life time or even the next generation’s causes political progression to move slowly. If we misinterpret the climate change now when it’s shifting more noticeably, the time available to effectively respond to the issue could end. In order to react appropriately to the world’s changing climate, we must educate members of society in the distinct knowledge that humans have direct influence on the warming of the planet.

Dear World, I want to talk about something affecting you all. It’s about global warming. This issue will more than likely take away from everyone in the end, or at least humanity’s efforts to be a greater civilization, if you don’t take care of it. My question is, why aren’t you? For billions of years your Earth withstood countless hardships and has since lived among the cosmos, but now it’s going to be intoxicated and fall ill in a manner of hundreds of years, because of you? Global warming is the issue of the earth warming up due to man’s technological accomplishments since the industrial revolution, greatly committing to the massive unnatural build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and it comes up with a great deal of many other problems, including pollution, the maintaining of ecosystems in the polar regions, and the depleting rate of fossil fuels and non-renewable energy sources. But besides the problem itself, which is already a major issue, there comes the people. There are more than one sides to a problem, and in this case, it’s about whether global warming is actually real or not. There are those who side that it is, and those who side that it isn’t, and even those who say that humans aren’t causing it. Although there are more than two sides, it needs to be said that global warming is indeed real and happening as you read this. Putting an end to the modern era and giving up our energy needs is simply too cruel, but there is never just one solution, and this