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    All that needs to be done for a person to see that climate change is upon the world is to look outside. The seasons that used to be defined by their drastically different weather have started to blend into a year-long battle for hot and cold, along with unusual rainfall during typically dry spells. Climate change is the change in global or regional climate patterns. Global warming is the idea that the world is being heated by a few degrees every year brought on by an increase in carbon dioxide levels

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    It’s a daunting task, trying to change the world; almost deemed as impossible. More often than not, most think that making a difference involves a number of unmeasurable feats, such as climbing a mountain, or single-handedly saving a small village of the coast of some island from a massive tsunami. But it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Back in May of 2014, Admiral William H McRaven presented his commencement speech to the graduating class at the University of Texas. He expressed multiple

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    of global climate change are everywhere from major cities to the under populated arctics. Most people just call it global warming, but it is not. By calling it global warming people are assuming that everywhere in the world, temperatures are rising and that it will be hotter all year long, but this is not the case. This is why the scientific community calls it global climate change, because it can be hotter in the Summer time and colder in the Winter time. Global climate change occurs naturally over

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    Climate change has been the topic of debate on the international stage for decades now. Although, in the last 30 years climate change has become a very controversial topic in the world of politics and business. This topic has went from scientist observing small changes in the weather, to a multi-billion dollar campaigns ran by the world’s governments and private industries. The topic of climate change has influenced everything from business decisions to new laws being put into place. The debate

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    There is no doubt that climate change is happening around the world. Climate change is occurring everywhere, but not everyone can see it. Some people fail to realize that climate change is happening because they aren’t aware of what it is. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it is “the change in global climate patterns are attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.” Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the air, which captures the sun’s heat. In return, the earth is

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    With climate change being upon us, the time to act is now. Evidence of drastic climate changes include the following: record low polar ice caps during the summer of 2012, record drought in California, excessive flooding in the eastern half of Texas and record heat in India. This is all evidence of what our “normal” climate will be like in the future. If we don’t act right now, we will live in a world where cities along the coast like Miami, New York and New Orleans will be partially underwater. Record

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    Climate change is one of the world’s biggest threats. Climate change has been and currently still is affecting the planet. It affects the environment, animals, plants, the ecosystem and it affects humans as well. However, even though climate change affects humans, we also play a big part in contributing to climate change. For example, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has gone up due to the burning of fossil fuels (from human activity) as well as deforestation (clearing or removal of trees) which

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    The world is going to change and it will change for the better. The song “Waiting On The World To Change” by John Mayer is about the world changing but being unable to do anything about it. The people in the song are hopeless and unable to change the world. They are just sitting there in misery hoping for the best and hoping something good will come out of what's happening. They can’t ever do anything about it. They are standing at a distance unable to beat the system. They are wishing and hoping

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    How to Change the World Growing up, we have all probably heard the chilché motivational speech that everyone can achieve their dreams and make a monumental difference in the world, no matter how insignificant we may think we are in the grand scheme of things. The documentary How to Change the World, directed by Jerry Rothwell, attests to the legitimacy of this statement that we may not have believed as children. By using imagery and audio to establish pathos, the stories of real life people to establish

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    Examine reasons for recent changes in patterns of World development. In the 1970’s Africa seemed poised to take off developmentally speaking while S.America and especially Asia were seen with extreme pessimism. Since then patterns have been reversed; Asia led by economies such as India have introduced new nomenclature such as newly and recently industrialising countries while S. America has followed close behind. Today it is Africa or more precisely Sub-Saharran Africa which has stagnated developmentally

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