There’s no argument about it now, global warming exists and is a problem. More and more people are becoming concerned with greenhouse gases’ effects on the environment as well as humans’ effects on the environment through our carbon footprint. Many activities humans participate in help add to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and increase the size and the effect of the carbon footprint humanity is leaving behind. The carbon footprint is the amount of carbon the humans create as waste through many processes such as the burning of fossil fuels and more. Recycling is one of the first ideas used to combat pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. However, many people still argue recycling’s effectiveness and whether the processes are helping and if the processes are worth the money. Recycling helps reduce the carbon footprint by reusing multiple types of materials, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as creating alternative sources of energy. Recycling’s main idea is to reuse materials from past products that were already created and are no longer used or just the simple reuse of a product the way it is. The recycling of old materials reduces the need to create or harvest raw materials in which both of those processes release large amounts of greenhouse gases. Most people know of recycling paper and plastic, but many more types of materials can be reused like metals and textiles. B. Zamani, M. Svanström, G. Peters, and T. Rydberg (2015) state that “the reuse of
Recycling is a very essential and crucial process in our world today. The term recycling means that waste can be converted into new products instead of being discarded. As the population continues to grow, humans are using more and more products. In order to reduce the amount of waste on planet Earth, and to preserve its resources, recycling is significant. Not only does recycling allow the environment to thrive, but it also allows living people to thrive as well. There are many materials that can be recycled. Plastics, electronics, aluminum, food and glass are only but a few products that can be recycled. Recycling can benefit our environment in numerous amount of ways. However, without recycling, negative impacts on our environment can occur. Some of these effects include pollution whether it is air, land or sea, depletion of natural resources and even an increase threat to global warming. Therefore, recycling is extremely important to sustain our environment.
The world has many years existing in this galaxy and every day we see that is changing more and more but not in a very good way that it can end in the extinction of the planet earth. “Earth Hasn’t Heated Up This Fast Since the Dinosaurs’ End” (Lavelle). Carbon is growing so fast in the atmosphere faster than in the past 66 million years since the dinosaurs went extinct (Lavelle). All the presidents hold a position of power that could change this big problem that the planet is having, behind this problem there is other problems that are causing a much bigger problem in all the country. “By year 2100, the average temperature will rise by 5.8 degrees as a result of global warming. The Arctic ice is melting rapidly. By 2040 the region is expected to have a completely ice-free summer, or even earlier. Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees” (Rinkesh). Humans are the one in power of this planet, they are often making some decisions, but they do not know if that is going to hurt the planet. Also, is because humans are selfish. These decisions often include manipulating the system of other country, how they work, what products they can make, how to get benefit from that country, and etc. Also, taking control and/ or credit over other countries work. Some countries are taking very serious the Global Warming problem, so the other countries want a prove of how are they helping to fix this problem. Many countries have agreements with other countries that
In the article “Should we throw away the recycling program?” The author states that “Recycling 1 ton of paper or aluminum cans, the agency says, can save about 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over producing new materials. Carbon dioxide, a gas, is produced during the recycling process and can lead to climate change.”This shows that recycling can cause climate change which causes global warming.This also shows that recycling is not always good for the earth.
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to,” By Terri Swearingen. Recycling has been a huge deal ever since we can remember. It benefits the economy, our earth and our lives. By recycling, we create millions of jobs for people who are unemployed and change the way we live to be happier and healthier human beings. Even though recycling is not cost effective, it will save the planet as long as recycling decreases pollution and impede global warming.
Recycling is a method of reusing materials that would otherwise be disposed in a landfill or incinerator. Recycling started due to an overflow of waste in landfills and only the basic materials, like paper and plastic, were recycled. Recycling evolved and became an important aspect of environmental studies and the benefits of it. There is a wide range of materials that can be recycled today. New developments in recycling are always being created to make the already simple process, simpler. Recycling is beneficial to the environment, it’s easy, and it helps clean up the community you and future generations live in.
Recycling is a method used to change waste materials into original resources to avoid waste of potentially beneficial resources. Utilization is a key factor of modern waste reduction and it is a substantial feature of the ‘Reduce’, ‘Reuse’, ‘Recycle’ waste hierarchy. Recycling is far more authoritative than most people are inclined to consider. The first rule of eulogy is that everything is connected.
Recycling just makes sense. The three R’s of sustainability are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Ask yourself “Do I really need that?” to help reduce. Stop before throwing items in the trash, look it over and answer the question, “Can I or someone else make use of it in a different way to reuse the items?” I item can be reused by donating? Recycling means something is changed back to its unmade nature, and/or made into something new. You can ask yourself, “Can the materials be made into something new?” The world should work on recycling to reduce landfill buildup and prevent the planet from being covered in waste.
To begin, recycling helps minimize pollution. Go outside can you see the stars? If not it’s because of pollution. A major contributor to air pollution is the burning of waste that is sent to landfills. In fact, if recycling levels increase to 75% in the United States, it will have the same effect on carbon dioxide levels as if 55 million cars were removed from U.S. roads every year (Recycle). Recycling helps to reduce waste sent to incinerators, and thus reduces air pollution. Even through the processing of recycled items, pollution is lessoned. For instance, studies show that "recycled paper produces approximately 70% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials" ("Forty"). Air pollution both harms the earth and the people on it by contributing to global warming as
Climatic changes have been a major concern in the recent researches. The changes have negatively affected the production across the world and also the human lives are at stake. There are so many occurrences of unpredicted climatic effects such as the drought occurrences and the tides which affects the people. The unpredicted climatic changes have been as a result of the many factors. One of the most controversial things is that climatic changes have been caused by the social factors, which government takes number one responsible for it pros and cons. Climatic changes is therefore attributable to certain sociological perspectives. The question is, are human activities causing climate change? Should government promote different social contexts of what actions should be made?
Global warming or also known as climate change refers to the increase heating of Earth 's surface, oceans and atmosphere and its effects. It is unknown who was the first person to point out the term “Global Warming”, but since the late nineteenth century geologist started talking about that increasing carbon dioxide by combustion, which could be the cause of rising temperature. But if talk about 55 million years ago the Earth was in the Eocene (the major division of the geologic timescale) during this period scientists say that the planet suffered a particularly warming. This increase was about 5 degrees Celsius, which represented one of the most significant changes in temperature throughout the geological history of the Earth. As a result favorable, the increase led mammals to disperse across the Earth 's surface, resulting in the evolution of primate ancestors of humans. But can we tell now that this increase of temperature rise is favorable?
The constant exponential increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases emitted by humans from 1750 until now is currently changing planet earth 's climate. These emissions are mainly the cause of fossil fuel use. Because the amount greenhouse gas on a planet determines the amount of infrared radiation being absorbed, the increase of emissions corresponds to rising atmospheric temperatures (Bintanja, Van de Wal, & Oerlemans, 2005). The rate at which these greenhouse gases are being released does not mimic any past natural environmental changes and as ice core drillings suggest there is more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now that there has been over the last 650,000 years stats (Lüthi, 2008).This dramatic altering of the composition of gases in earth 's atmosphere has adverse effects on all weather systems. This change is called global warming or climate change. The purpose of this paper is to describe the potential outcomes of change in global climate. This paper will first focuses on the impacts of emissions of atmospheric greenhouse and also how an overall warming of the atmosphere will and is changing weather patterns as well as associated ecological factors. It will then describe the effects of sea level rise due to polar ice cap melting and how this will affect human activity and migration. Finally it will look into the ecological effects climate change is and will have on New Zealand.
Among the issues plaguing our world such as global warming, pollution, deforestation, depletion of natural resources, increased emergence of pandemics and epidemics, loss of freshwater, and species extinction there exists one underlying cause, overpopulation. The human population has reached a record 7,467,374,326 people as of 11/27/2016, and is growing at an exponential rate (Current World Population). With the Earth’s number of occupants multiplying so rapidly, our need for resources escalates alongside it. According to Edward O. Wilson, a sociobiologist at Harvard University, “the planet can hold 10 billion people at the uppermost population limit.”(How Many People Can Earth Support?) Once we reach that threshold, then we will use what little remaining resources we possess and all die in a mass famine. If the human race keeps increasing at the projected amount, then metropolises like New York City will become the standard size for any city or town. There will no longer be small towns out in the middle of nowhere because the landscape will have been stripped down and developed. This urbanization is becoming evident here in Gwinnett County as the roads and residential areas are becoming more and more crowded every year. The infrastructure does not support the growth of this magnitude. This overflooding of people is visible even in the communities that lie within the wake of urban encroachment.
Global warming has been affecting the Earth temperature for many years, caused mainly by greenhouse gases emissions from burning fuel that is used for generating power, operating vehicles, running factories and other industrial activities, all of which are human-caused and controlled, however one cannot simply live without. All of this has endangered the environment, including a tremendous rise in Earth temperature, many species becoming extinct, arctic ice melting on a rapid pace, sea levels rising dramatically, endangering people living in coastal areas, and causing many respiratory diseases to people. The entire world is seriously paying attention to these facts and investigating methods to mitigate the dangers of global warming.
The term global warming refers to the rise in average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It refers to temperature increase that is large enough to induce changes in the global climate. Global warming is analogous to the modern greenhouse effect, which refers to the rise in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As a result of this, there is an increase of solar radiation, which leads to the rapid rise in the overall earth’s temperature (Morgan114). Global warming has become the major climatic topic of conversation in this 21stcentury. This is due to the fact that it has brought disastrous effects to limelight by causing environmental disasters. Some of the major environmental catastrophe includes the huge floods common in some of the nations, severe drought, and the devastating cyclone throughout the world.
It’s a fact that global warming is a reality, our planet has already warmed 1 degree in the past century, and we are no seeing the dramatic effects: Glaciers are melting; oceans are rising; coral reefs are dying; species are disappearing. “Extreme weather patterns have emerged – heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, floods – and they are occurring with greater frequency and greater intensity. In 2003, heat waves caused 20,000 deaths in Europe and 1,500 deaths in India, and the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has doubled since the 1970’s.” The fuel we use to power our homes, our cars, and our businesses is causing the Earth to warm much faster than anyone expected. The first seven months of this year and the last three decades were the warmest in the United States since national record keeping began in 1895. This has been the warmest decade and it just goes on and on. Global warming is a natural episode in the earth´s life cycle. However, it is currently being speed up mostly by anthropogenic causes such as pollution, and the emission of greenhouse gases that get trapped into the atmosphere, causing the temperature to rise, therefore causing global problems such as climate change, natural disasters, melting of glaciers, dying of species, and diseases. It is in our hands to stop global warming from speeding up by reducing pollution, forest fire activities, and the emission of greenhouse gases.