The Issue Of The Environment And Globalisation

Climate change is one of today’s most hotly debated topic. Scientists for many decades have made supposed claims that current energy creation and reliance on fossil fuels will lead to inevitable changes to the planet. Today, climate change denial is still a popular to most of the world despite the mounds of evidence to support that it exists. The climate change issue suffers from being mismanaged by various parties through focusing on the wrong issues and the lack of true commitment from the general public, according to Sandra Steingraber.

Global warming refers to the rise in temperature in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Each year the temperature of the Earth increases gradually with an insignificant amount; however, with pollution produced by humans, the rate has increased even more compared to pre-industrial levels. According to NOAA, "Global surface temperature in 2016 was the warmest since official records began in 1880. It was the third year in a row to set a new heat record, and the fifth time the record has been broken since the start of the 21st century.” The earth is getting warmer every day and is starting to become a real problem, especially when it is approaching the threshold. The rise in temperature is so rapid that it could influence and change the composition of the world's population. In fact, the consequences of global warming are unnoticed in our daily lives because they are affecting us slowly. The rising average temperature of Earth is changing our lives for little things. There is much evidence that the Earth is warming as a result of the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Perhaps the most notable signs of global warming are the natural catastrophes like hurricanes and winter storms. The effects of global warming are different all over the world, and they affect people's lives differently. People should be concerned about global warming and its effects because we only have one planet where we can

These last two election cycles have demonstrated the importance of climate change in relation to politics and the american people. What is unfortunate is that what seems to be a very crucial and real problem in our human survival, according to scientists, is being debated by people who do not have the scientific credentials to even discuss the science behind the reality of climate change. Those behind the skeptics, have funded a successful campaign against the reality of the facts and have introduce doubt into the sciences.

Never in the history of the human species have we been in such a rapidly changing environment. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, we have been making social, economical, scientific, and environmental changes and advancements at an unprecedented rate. Societal advancements, while much appreciated by the average Joe, have been detrimental to our environment. Every days forests are cut, rivers polluted, and once ecologically important areas are cemented over to compensate for our rapidly growing population. As the status of our natural world becomes more critical by the year it is important that we look at the driving factors and reasons for this destruction of the natural world. While pollutants and globalization are the driving

Climatologist Tim Ball argues this point in his article, The Science Isn’t Settles – The Limitations of Global Climate Models. Dr. Ball looks at the data of global temperatures and concludes that the earth’s atmosphere is actually cooling while in its cooling cycle, which is the complete opposite to the assumption that the atmosphere is heating up. In 1999 a petition was asked the U.S. Government to reject the environment treaty The Kyoto Protocol, which was signed by over 17,000 other scientists sharing the same views. These scientists view that there is no convincing scientific evidence around the idea of global warming and all of these conclusions are not justified. They believe that the human release of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses are not contributing to global warming and the climate change, instead the increase of CO2 is promoting plant and animal growth. Some other scientists argue that global warming is being blown way out of portion and its effects are so small we will not notice its effects. They believe this increasing in extensive publicity is an environmentalist scam for more recognition, power, and

Disruptive climate changes are a result of our actions. From 280 molecules of carbon dioxide in 1750 to a 384 presently is due to the rapid Industrial Revolution. The readers are convinced to an extent of the alarming increase of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. These facts should help to galvanize people, governments, organizations and individuals to work on a better environment. My ideas about such a circumstance do not change because we humans are the cause of this depleting environment. Through discussions it was observed how globalization has greater negative than positive

Theories presented in the sciences tends to normally have a general consensus amongst scientists in that field of study, but, like always, there are those that may find fault in the data or the way that the study was conducted. One example of such debate is the topic of climate change. There are scientists who believe that it is not possible to accurately project global climate and to test for the rise of sea level and temperature for the next decades. Scientists opposing climate change believe that there are too many inadequacies to of the current global climate modeling to make any accusations or projections of what is the main source behind rising temperatures. Furthermore, scientists have claimed that the average increase of temperatures is a natural occurrence and has barely anything to do with human

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.

Many false and inaccurate claims arise when it comes to the opposing views on climate change. Individuals will argue

Climate change is not something we think about everyday and can be a complex and confusing topic to research or understand. Many of us do not understand the daily implications of climate or what the future climate may look like. Regardless, most people have strong opinions on the climate change topic and many are adamant about their decisions. All across the world, people wonder, is global warming a threat to our lives as we know them? Is the majority of it caused by humans? While some sources say that 97 percent of climate change scientists agree, other sources say it’s more like 40 percent. That is a very large difference in statistics that ranges from almost 100 percent to well under 50.(percent quote) There is still a large amount of controversy

The energy companies are against climate change poses that there is no such thing as are products that affect the environment. Exxon Mobil is an oil company that accused the Rockefellers of climate conspiracy. There are exposes of the company’s research, which was published by Journalists to explore the climate projections. (Exxon Mobil Accuses Rockefeller) The doubts that are established with science help these companies overcome the negative effects that are perceived in the public eye. If they present any doubt the public eye will look at research for answers. Climate change can use modeling to conduct that these oil companies are wrong about the effects that they have on the environment. This is when own science plays a big role in these companies because they set own goals and try to present negative effects of like climate change does not exist. The reason to have doubt is that these companies will have to prove what is real and what is not which requires a lot of money and research to be

The term “Global change” addresses recent changes in climate and climate variability, growth of the human population, percentile of total population living in urbanized areas, safe water accessibility and storage, plus trade and travel. Due to human activity these changes are occurring on a global scale, affecting

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.

The decline of the environment due to natural and human exertion is known as the degradation of the environment. The natural weather occurrences such as heavy rain, flooding, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. are not administered under human control. These meteorological phenomenon’s wreak devastation on the environment from time to time causing the land to become unsuitable to cultivate. On this subject matter, the human population does not contain the power to stop the wrath of Mother Nature. Rather, we are forced to sit back and watch. Nevertheless, humans engage in a crucial role towards the degradation of the environment in which we live in. Unavoidably, the degradation of the environment is a rising and utmost worldwide subject. I accept that the root cause to environmental degradation is the excessive use of resources on our land utilized by the processes under capitalism. As Jensen wrote in Endgame, “The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human and (nonhuman) impoverishment.

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently published a report that specified many of the major scientific institutions that have done extensive research and have come to the conclusion that humans are in fact causing major changes to our climate. For example, the UCS lists The American Meteorological Society, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and those are just to name a few. (“Scientific Consensus on Global Warming” 1). The board of The American Association for the Advancement of Science even released a statement saying “The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society” (“Scientific Consensus on Global Warming” 1). These types of statements from credible scientific establishments in the United States clearly identify that climate change is a real question. Kelly argues that climate change is not scientific consensus, and yes that is true. Rarely anything in the scientific community is consensus, especially a topic so controversial. And while this is true, that does not make the argument of climate change invalid. Kelly maintains that because climate change is not consensus in the