The Race For What's Left By Lester Brown

In the article,” Why Bother” written by Michael Pollen, he explains how the environment has gotten very bad over time. He talks about sustainability, global warming, and the cheap-energy mind in his article. He tells us that we need to act now before the phenomenon gets worse. Have you paid attention to the environment lately? Have you noticed the rising temperature around the world? Have you noticed the melting of the ice caps? If you haven’t you are about to be in for a surprise. The world has gotten very bad and we need to act now. There are a lot of causes to the environmental problems. The main cause are from farmers all around the world. Farmers are a lot more technologically advanced then what they were 50 years ago compared to now. The problem with the farmers are the overuse of energy, erosion of the soil, and pollution. The answer to all of these problems is sustainable agriculture because it is more efficient and better for the environment.

The world is changing, well the environment is. For many years mankind has been finding ways to make Earth easier and liveable,therefore, we have been cutting down various trees, building houses and industries to make Earth more adaptable for humankind.These mass productions are polluting our environment due to the fact that carbon dioxide is being released to the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has had a very distructive consequence,Global warming.Global warming started around the 1880’s around 40 years after the Industrial Revolution in America.As a consequence of global warming the climate change on the Earth has had lethal impacts.Humankind has came up with ways to help control the amount of

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.

The earth’s climate has been changing and will continue to do so in the future. It is only going to keep on getting worse and it is getting to the point where humans will most likely end up in a situation of life threatening diseases and even death. Contagious diseases are spreading menacingly due to weather extremes as heat wave, droughts, cyclones, floods, and tornados (Dhaka). That is just the start of the effect of climate change and its consequences. Many scientists have already warned that millions of people would die in this century because of climate change unless the major reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is made (Dhaka). However, there are more than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions to help solve for climate change.

In the novel Parables of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler earth’s current day issue of global warming has taken a turn for the worst, thus leaving many parts of the world severely depleted of usable water and years without rain. “It’s raining… ‘well we have wind’, Cory said. ‘Wind and maybe a few drops of rain, or maybe just a little cool weather. That would be welcome. It’s all we’ll get.’That’s all there has been for six years” (butler 47). Is Octavia E. Butler novel Parables of the Sower predicting the grim consequences of increased greenhouse effect due to the failure to set past preventions and solutions to global warming? Is this fantasized future foreshadowing the faith of the United States, or the world, if global warming is disregarded as a hoax and people choose to continue or increase their usage of nonrenewable fossil fuels? For republican candidate Donald Trump this is an inconceivable notion as many of his twitter tweets confirm his belief that global warming is a hoax. “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive” (Harrington). However, for democratic candidate Hillary Clinton global warming proposes a very real problem to our world’s climate and air quality. Hillary Clinton fully supports the fight and prevention of global warming. Calling global warming an “urgent threat” to "our economy, our national security, and our children 's health and futures." (Harrington). Due to dangerous

Global warming is the steady heating of Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere caused primarily by human activity. Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges right now, from people actively arguing that it doesn’t exist- to other’s who don’t care enough to do anything about it. There’s evidence showing that climate change is happening and affecting our world now and from what it seems, if action isn’t taken, major consequences will soon arise. Most of the world’s land mass has experienced a 0.2-1.0 degree Celsius average temperature increase since the 1970s, the temperatures of the Artic has increased at almost twice the mean global rate. Climate change is caused by human factors such as greenhouse gases and ozone depletion and because humans are so dependent on fossil fuels in their day to day lives, the issue at hand is only going to get worse.

Global warming will in a foreseeable future increase the prevalence of climate-sensitive diseases, reduce agricultural productivity in developing countries, raising sea levels and alter ecosystems, forests, and biodiversity worldwide. Additionally, the indifference of the politicians in acknowledging the validity of global warming is alarming and detrimental on a global scale. As a result, the first oil shock took effect due to the dependability on imported fossil fuels, as well as lack of alternative energy sources. Surprisingly, in the early 21st century, Americans continue to rely heavily on foreign oil instead of transitioning to sustainable renewable energy sources. Furthermore, the economic and social progression must factor in the environmental

Due to the immense anthropogenic release of green house carbon emissions into the atmosphere, there has been and will be major detrimental effects on human resources and the ecosystem. For example, by the middle of the 21stcentury, River runoff will increase by 40% in northern latitudes and also in a few tropical areas, while in dry regions it will decrease by 30%. Some of these tropical areas have already reported and are experiencing water droughts that will only get worse (Gillman 2008). In addition, if temperatures continue to increase to 1.8-5.4 degrees, food productivity and resources will be affected. When the temperatures reach the lower latitudes of what is predicted, there will be a slight increase in food productivity for a little while. However, when the temperatures reach the higher end of the latitudes, food productivity will

In Noelle Selin’s research have found that “Human activities, including large-scale industrialization, have altered the global environment in ways that are dramatic and potentially irreversible”(Selin). She also clarifies the relationship that climate change and the politics of it and how it interacts with human activities.

Usually when you read dystopian novels they take place far into the future or on a different planet, something Orwellian. We as a society, like to think this is what will happen if we continue to behave a certain way. Since the projections in these novels and pieces are so farfetched, nobody ever stops to compare it to the world today. However, Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, states the harsh realities of the world’s current condition and the devious schemes of wealthy corporations. Global warming is perhaps the most frequent issue televised about the world today. It’s known that this ‘climate change’ is a product of greenhouse gases and the burning of fossil fuels; something of which is done by humans. Solutions and conservation strategies have been

The article “The Struggle of Our Time: Human Nature vs. Mother Nature” explains the causes and effects, as well as the steps to counteract climate change. Moisés Naím associated the humanity’s effort to reduce climate change with an individual’s effort to lose weight. Naím stated that people who are on a diet tends to give up before achieving their goal, and goes back to their old ways of eating. The author has indicated that the same thing happens to the humanity’s effort to reduce climate change. Moisés Naím pointed out the effects of climate change in this year. He affirmed that this year is the “hottest on record.” In addition, the strongest hurricane ever recorded was experienced this year. Moreover, the author mentioned that climate change is caused by human activities: transportations, how our cities were built, products we consume, how we heat/

We as a society have reached one of the most crucial time periods in the history of our world. Due to the way we have used the resources on this earth we have created a situation in which our climate is drastically changing. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil has caused gases like carbon dioxide to become trapped in the atmosphere causing a natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has caused the earth’s average temperature to rise and has resulted in arctic glaciers melting. These glaciers had gases trapped inside them that are now being released into the atmosphere further raising the earth's temperature. Due to the way we are polluting our air we have caused global warming. This global warming has caused stronger natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires putting our society in more danger than ever before.

As one of the urgent issues of human existence during the coming 50 years, global warming has become a widespread concern among the world community. Global warming can be defined as the abnormal increase of the average temperature on the surface of the earth. According to statistics, average temperatures have been increased by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880 (National Geographic News, 2007). This eassy will outline the causes and illustrate the effects on economies around the world with a series of evidence and data. To begin with, two main causes of the climate change will be outlined, which are believed to be the result from natural phenomenon, and human activities.

People unrealized that the way of our lives and conduct of our business lead into vulnerability. In this case into global warming, which potentially create many problems more clearly. But the issue becomes complicated since the cause of global warming itself derived from industrial and agricultural activities that give people prosperity and welfare standards of living (Philander, 2004).

Kuo suggests that the amount of resources necessary to sustain the seven billion people on the planet are greatly polluting our atmosphere (Kuo 25). The global temperature has risen an average of .7 degrees since 1900. Though this may not seem like a great increase, temperature inclines such as this could be detrimental to the environment (Trevors 113). Warming the Earth is leading to severe droughts all throughout the world, especially in the equatorial regions. Many of these regions already have water scarcity (Kuo 25). In addition, the climate change is affecting Earth’s animal populations. In turn, as animal populations decrease, meat and agricultural sources also decrease. International governing bodies, such as the United Nations, need to implement population control to save the environment (Ehlrich and Ehlrich 558).