Population Dynamics and Its Effects on Climate Change Policy

Global warming is the environmental and social changes caused by emissions of greenhouse gases. Human activities have been the primary cause of this significant change, resulting with extreme weather conditions, increasing sea levels, and climate changes. In this paper I will compare and contrast natural versus anthropogenic climate changes of global warming, mitigation strategies, mitigation effectiveness, policy implications, costs, and address some policy changes to help stabilize global climate.

The Western existence of modernization, especially technological and industrial development, economic growth, material prosperity, urbanization, and democracy, has been built upon a long line of industrial capitalism, an economic system predicated on the accelerating extraction and consumption of fossil fuels for energy (Clark & York, 2005). A major unintended consequence of the use of fossil fuels is an increase in the average temperature of the earth; known as global warming or climate change. Recognizing and responding to climate change, arguably the most challenging social problem of the modern era (Giddens, 2009), thus poses a fundamental critique of continued modernization processes around the world (Freudenburg, 2003). Climate change is a major issue that affects all life across the

Climate change is a major problem worldwide, the actions of one country inevitably have an impact on the rest of the world, some places more than others. Consequently, it is vital for the entire world to be on board with efforts to resolve the issues. The main cause of “climate change” is an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, both naturally occurring and man made, cause the earth’s average temperature to slowly rise. Especially in the past 50 years, the rate of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels such as gas, oil and coal have significantly increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere (Climate Change and Health). Efforts from a few countries, although beneficial can not fix the problem

Climate change has been called “the biggest problem of the 21st century” by many scientists and government officials alike. Many classes at the university level cover some aspect of this complex and multifaceted problem. From the human rights that are at risk due to rising sea levels and food shortages to the environmental, geographical, and intergenerational inequities resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions; climate change is a serious and complex issue with little agreement on how to solve it. In this paper, I will analyze the impacts of climate change in the country that contributes most to the problem:

Recently, the idea of global warming has been under fire by people who claim it to be a hoax. Even “President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is real” (Eilperin). Even with skepticism, the largest problem facing the world in coming years will undoubtedly be environmental issues. All across the globe, millions of people and thousands of communities feel the effects of global warming and deforestation daily. Whether through a loss of water, rising sea levels, or even a decrease in agriculture, the world is changing and suffering as a result.

climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is undisputedly clear that human are partly responsible for global warming through deforestation burning fossil fuels and other changes we have caused to the land. There has not only been a significant increase in temperature across the globe but the seal level has rose 20cm in the past century alone. the (Intergovernmental panel of climate change, IPCC) has also tracked the “unprecedented recent rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.” It is alarming that the emissions of greenhouse gas continue to rise globally and it is deeply concerning that all countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable

Nations around the world have been contributing to climate change by damaging natural environments and releasing greenhouse gases and there is a need for more economically developed nations. There are different contributing factor, but the majority of these contributions are from the more economically developed nations. Although the less economically developed nations do not contribute as much as the More economically developed nations, they are the ones that are affected the most. More economically developed nations are not affected as much because they have enough resources to

Climate change is related to globalization and development similarly to how economics is related to globalization and development, but with one additional step. Dower (p1. 2005) explains the relationship as follows: “globalization is an economic process involving increased international investments and trade in goods and services. Development is a process of economic growth. Globalization is the engine of economic growth. So globalization is the engine of development.” For this paper, I will use Dower’s definition of globalization as it includes development, while simultaneously critiquing his lack of thoroughness. Although Dower mentions goods and services, he fails to include what those goods often include - natural resources. The

According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992), climate change is an alteration that affects directly or indirectly to peoples’ lives, changing the formation of the global atmosphere with the deterioration of climate. Global warming is a political challenge which involves the hard work between countries and it is becoming a globalized and international problem nowadays. Due to the impacts of climate change, it affects a country’s political issues such as the migration of nations and the biodiversity loss which may lead to the imbalance of populations, the international struggle brought by the lack of sources, and the air quality index (AQI) of each countries which affect the rate of illness. Although these problems have not been fully solved, there are a few effective strategies which can reduce or overcoming, namely using renewable energy, exercising taxes and fines, signing agreements, and encourage people to become a vegetarian or weekdays vegetarian.

Forest loss is directly-associated with human population growth. In 1921 human population was 25. 13 crores and forests cover was 104.05 million hectares. By 1989, forests cover reduced to 64.01 m ha, while human population in 1991 reached to 84.39 crores.

“Climate change is a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet 's weather patterns or average temperatures” . In 2006, Al Gore highlighted a problem hinted at for years, climate change, in his documentary The Inconvenient Truth, and this essay will explain why this problem is still the most important issue in global politics, despite receiving less coverage in world press. With major problems such as rising sea levels and more extreme temperatures already being seen in many areas across the world, it seems that global politics could not face a more pressing issue, as this potentially effects everyone in the world, it’s not a discriminatory problem, be that

By 2050 the population of the world is expected to be 9.3 billion people. As the population of the world continues to grow so will the demand for resources. Resources such as land for agriculture, fresh water, and the most important fossil fuels are becoming scare. In order for the resources that we still have available to last, we as a society have to change the way we are using the resources. Not only do we have to make the resources last for future generations, but we also need to learn how to become less dependent on the resources since they are causing great harm to the environment. In order to slow the pace of climate change, we as a society have to change how we do things in order to confront climate change.

Climate change is affecting the earth through increases in temperature, melting of polar ice caps, changes in precipitation patterns, and many more environmental changes. Countries throughout the world emit greenhouse gasses everyday which contributes to the greenhouse effect on our atmosphere. This causes a heating of our atmosphere affecting our environment alongside increasing the global temperature. It is up to policy makers and government officials to enforce more efficient and environmentally protecting laws to fight against climate change. Projections of becoming more eco-centric is favourable for the world environmentally and countries in an economic standpoint (Enkvist, 2007). Reducing our ecological footprint is beneficial in all aspects of society. The steps to become more environment aware which policy makers can make, either big or small, can accumulate to a big change throughout countries. Economic growth due to changes in becoming greener is an incentive to countries to benefit both their wealth and the environment (Enkvist, 2007). In addition, the few negative impacts on humans through new policies have mitigation effects which compensate and is substantial to improve on human health on a global scale (Haines, 2009). Socio-economic and political conditions have to be assessed when making such changes and can prove to delay the progression of greener options (Vuuren, 2007). Developed countries, especially, need reduction of their greenhouse gases to decrease ecological footprint and for less contribution to climate change.

An increasing population is adverse to environmental sustainability. On the one hand, over use of various natural resources,especially non-renewable resources such as coal,gas and petrol by increasing people may lead to a shortage or even disappear of these resources gradually, which is unfair to the future generation and it is negative to sustainability. Wilson (2002)found that rapid population growth has exacerbated freshwater depletion, climate change,biodiversity loss, depletion of fishes and other coastal resources and degradation of agricultural lands. On the other hand, environmental issues are also caused because there are more pollution and waste are created by more

Researchers have proved that more than the increasing rate of population in certain developing countries; it is the per-capita negative impact that First world countries are having on sustenance of the world environment that is responsible for the climate change in the world. According to Environmental Research Letters, seven advanced countries are responsible for 63% of the world’s activities leading to global warming (Malone 2014). Though United States emits most of the carbon and greenhouse gases but when evaluated based on national population UK has the highest per person pollution levels. Recently some developing countries like China are catching up in pollution emission with developed countries but yet again a large portion of these emissions in transferred to the countries that consume these products produced in developing countries (Matthews 2014). Thus as the paper states “As a consequence, a substantial portion of recent emissions from developing countries could be equally allocated to the developed countries that consume the goods produced” (Matthews, 2014, p.8). Despite this huge amount of historical contribution in large scale of air, water