Do you agree with my opinion that in the context of the projected acceleration of the global warming process, humanity in order to avoid a global climate catastrophe should take as a priority in the 21st century a change in the classical economy on the new green economy to develop economies according to the concept of sustainable pro-ecological development, including replacing classic energy sources based on the combustion of minerals for renewable energy sources. In addition, in economic processes should be implemented as soon as possible and possibly the largest funds programs for reduction of greenhouse gases?
How can you slow down the global warming process in the 21st century?
Please reply
Best wishes
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz
We will not be able to do anything as long as oil exists. The best solution is to reduce traditional energies and encourage the use of clean energies in homes and government departments. We must work intensively to address pollution and convert thermal emissions into environmentally friendly emissions. We should encourage the hybrid car industry, which works on two energy exporters (fuel and clean energy)
Best Regards
First, by changing the technological processes with some more environmentally friendly. Second, by reducing excessive consumption and applying the principles of circular economy.
Its quite obvious that there is nothing is absolutely perfect and without flaws or disadvantages. The technological advancement is one of such phenomena. However, it is very important for inventors and major stake holders to ascertain how the negative aspects these advancements would be reduced to the bearest minimum. I would support the green energy drive as a way to slow down the global warming process.
Change from fossil fuel to renewable energy might give major impact
Stop eating beef; stop using coal for energy production; leave coal in the ground; invest in solar, wind and hydro energy generation. This is just for starters.
AFFORESTATION is the only way besides judicious use of non-renewable resources.
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz
We will not be able to do anything as long as oil exists. The best solution is to reduce traditional energies and encourage the use of clean energies in homes and government departments. We must work intensively to address pollution and convert thermal emissions into environmentally friendly emissions. We should encourage the hybrid car industry, which works on two energy exporters (fuel and clean energy)
Best Regards
This issue can be solved only through social participation and understanding the importance of this crisis.
Planting trees, avoiding deforestation and reduction of preserved areas. In addition there should be lines of financing and public policies for replacing energy matrices for those with low carbon emissions
Develop and Implement appropriate curricula at all levels of education
It is difficult to change the behaviors of 8 billion people with technology and business model innovation. Coordinated strategy / policy is needed.
We can reduce the Greenhouse effect, by using many strategies such as green energy, afforestation, judicious use to the waste management, green economy, sustainable development of resources, reduce of using fossil fuel in the industries, etc.
These strategies may reduce of the greenhouse gases production, which cause global warming.
There are several effective strategies that do not require large financial investments available now to mitigate global carbon emissions, including, but not necessarily in this order:
1. Stop eating beef would be a relatively easy start
Ratnasiri, S., & Jayatilleke Bandara, J. (2017). Changing patterns of meat consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in Australia: Will kangaroo meat make a difference? PLoS ONE 12(2): doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.01701301
2. Passive solar designed residential, commercial and industrial buildings to minimise energy required for heating and cooling.
3. Mandatory education for our children and their parents via the existing primary and secondary school systems on climate change and limited global fossil fuel reserves, together with strategies that already exist on how we can each reduce our carbon footprint. It is important to identify the solutions currently available to prevent the population from giving up.
4. Providing universities with the necessary funding to conduct effective research into more active measures to reduce carbon emissions, and to plan for sustainable living on an already warming planet.
Further more active, existing measures include:
5. Utilise PV solar panels, wind power, wave power etc for energy generation
6. Install Solarwhiz extraction fans into new and existing buildings to actively remove stored heat from roof spaces powered by the sun.
7. Plant forests and encourage photosynthetic phytoplankton growth to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and increase oxygen production.
totally agree with you sir.
there are many ways for us to go around with these. since John Wilkerson said that its hard to change the mentality of 8 billion people, we should always find an alternative sustainable way. trees are great sinks for carbon dioxide. but major carbon sink is the sea and one of the most contributor is whales. we should have a nursery ground for whales to breed. we have to let whales population rise at least half of the population before human started hunting whales. we have to further decrease the amount of whales being catch per year. these is because whales can contribute in carbon dioxide absorption. which will eventually drop the amount of carbon dioxide per year, accounting in hundred tons.
In the context of the progressive warming of the Earth's climate, the following question is of particular importance:
How can environmental protection and biodiversity be improved by using current ecological technologies?
Due to the current civilization progress in recent decades, acceleration of the development of industry, automotive, urban agglomerations, intensification of agricultural production, etc. and related greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, ozone layer depletion in the atmosphere, increase of environmental pollution, growing problem of smog in urban agglomerations, the increase in pollution of the seas and oceans to which unsorted waste is thrown away is cut out as part of the predatory economy of tropical forests in the Amazon and other largest natural forest ecosystems.
In addition, the secondary effect of global warming of the Earth's climate is the increasing, more frequent weather anomalies, including drought, leading to steppe and desertification of areas that were previously natural forest ecosystems or areas exploited by agriculture.
As a result of the above-mentioned processes, every year many species of flora and fauna disappear forever.
As a result, natural biodiversity diminishes, which for millions of years evolved evolutionally on Earth.
In this way the natural resources of the planet Earth are irretrievably in decline.
In view of the above, the issue of environmental protection and biodiversity is one of the most important challenges of humanity in the 21st century.
Classical economics must change towards a green economy based on the strategy of sustainable pro-ecological development.
Therefore, I am asking you for the following query:
How can environmental protection and biodiversity be improved by using current ecological technologies?
Please, answer, comments.
I invite you to the discussion.
Best wishes
I think that at the current stage of global warming and the slow human response to the problem it is necessary to start by locally controlling carbon emissions and energy matrices ... from where we are, there will not be a single solution and a globalizing discourse has allowed for the Many.
I think that the best chance is to switch more successfully from fossil fuels as major sources of energy to cleaner energy. What also is needed is afforestation and slowing down deforestation to increase net CO2 sinks. Finally to organize societies better, so that inefficient and unnecessary use / waster of resources is reduced.....
Paris agreement has initiated a good movement towards limiting the increase of global average temperature below 2 degree centigrade. However, this is not enough at all. We as global citizens and owners of our businesses should be all responsible and committed to our environmental conservation within any aspect that we can. Conscious purchase and disposal, thinking about long-term impacts of our activities can make a huge difference if all the end-users do so.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
Europe plans to create 100% energy by 2050. based solely on renewable energy sources.
Is this real?
The above discussion inspired me to formulate the following question:
Is it real that the whole world will reform energy by 2050 in such a way that 100% was based solely on renewable energy sources?
On the basis of the above considerations and conclusions from the discussion on interesting issues discussed, I formulated the following thesis that the whole world by 2050 should reform energy proecologically in such a way that 100% was based solely on renewable energy sources.
Below I have described the key determinants confirming the formulated research thesis. To the above discussion I would like to add the following conclusion formulated as a summary of my previous considerations on this topic: ...
Capitalism in effective various national variants of the dominant formula of neoclassical economics with elements of state interventionism has been effective for many years. However, in the past, the impending threat to the development of human civilization and to the terrestrial biosphere and natural biodiversity was not noticed. These threats were not recognized because until the end of the 20th century the scale of environmental pollution and the global warming process seemed harmless to the Earth's biosphere. However, taking into account the increasingly rapid global warming process and the increasing pollution of the environment, to avoid climate armageddon, which may appear at the end of the 21st century, classic economy must change to green economy, therefore capitalism must change to green capitalism.
Still at the end of the 21th century, in many publications written in the convention of classical economics, theses were formulated that energy should be shaped by the mechanism of market-harmonizing sides of demand and supply. However, this philosophy concerned classic energy based on the combustion of minerals. Mineral energy deposits in certain parts of the world are determined for several decades of extraction.
If the development of mining technology allows to reach and extract energy from deeper deposits than currently exploited and decks located under the sea and ocean bottoms, such estimated deposits would allow mining of these deposits in some places of the world for much longer than 100 years. However, humanity can not wait so much for pro-ecological reforms in the energy sector and the slow process of switching to renewable energy sources, which is happening in some countries, including the largest economies in the world, the largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
Currently, the philosophy of the energy sector is starting to change. Now the obvious issue is the need to quickly implement pro-ecological reforms without contemplating the depleted energy resources of the Earth's crust. This wait could take about 100 years or more than 100 years in many countries and this is too long, because at the end of the 21st century, according to climate change analysis, drastic climatic catastrophes will occur due to the predicted acceleration of the global warming process in the following decades.
According to the published and presented results of climatologists' research during the recent UN Climate Summits and Conferences on the problem of progressing global warming process, unless by 2030 at the latest the world will not show the classic energy based on the burning of minerals for renewable energy sources and motorization for electromobility and there will be no appropriate improvement of segregation waste and recycling, by the end of the 21st century, the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by 3-4 degrees Celsius globally, and the scale of climate cataclysms and weather anomalies will increase many times in relation to the current state.
In view of the above, the world can no longer wait for the depletion of energy minerals. This issue, which is particularly important for humanity and life on Earth, can not be left to the market mechanism and classical economy, whose philosophy has long been undermined, already in the period of the Great Depression of 1929-1934 it was demonstrated that Keynsovian state interventionism is needed to bring the economy out of the deep economic crisis if the liberalized private sector led to a crisis and the economy quickly does not return itself to balance and high economic growth on the basis of self-acting market mechanisms.
We currently have a similar situation. The world inevitably aims at increasing climatic cataclysms caused by the accelerating global warming process. These unfavorable processes for humanity and life on Earth will become a source of intensification of migration of people from subtropical areas, on which it will be impossible to live and live in a few dozen years due to high temperatures and droughts. In addition, there will be economic crises resulting from the global warming process. Humanity has no time to put off the necessary pro-ecological reforms for the future, these pro-ecological reforms in the energy sector need to be implemented now and it should be a process coordinated by the state in the context of pro-environmental anti-crisis state interference.
The strong increase in forest fires in various climate zones of the planet Earth recorded in 2019 is a serious warning signal for humanity. It is a kind of SOS signal sent by the Earth's nature towards man, that the development of civilization with the negative effects of this development is approaching the critical point of imbalance in nature. After exceeding this critical point, it will no longer be possible to stop the global warming process that is accelerating and the destruction of most of the Earth's biosphere at the end of the 21st century will become a reality. Climatologists estimate that the necessary ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out by 2030 at the latest for effective slowing down of the global warming process. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters. However, there are still a few, max. several years to implement environmentally friendly reforms globally, implement sustainable economic development in economic processes conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy.
One of the most important challenges for humanity in the 21st century is the protection of the Earth's biosphere and natural biodiversity. One of the natural ecosystems characterized by high biodiversity are tropical subtropical rainforests. The area of ??these forests decreases year by year. In this way, the planet Earth will be poorer in terms of biodiversity, including many unique species of flora and fauna that live in these forest formations, e.g. in the Amazon rainforest, i.e. the largest natural forest complex. Every year many unique species of flora and fauna are irretrievably lost, including species not yet discovered, not known, not described. I believe that there are still many species of flora and fauna that have not been discovered and described by man, and unfortunately, due to the growing level of human interference in the natural environments of biological ecosystems, many of these species may never be discovered. It is estimated that many species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforest, in this unique, natural forest, characterized by high biodiversity, have not yet been completely discovered. In addition, there are many species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforest that have been found, discovered but have not yet been thoroughly explored and described, have not been named. Much of the undiscovered species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforests may never be discovered because the Amazon rainforest is being cut down so quickly and its area is rapidly decreasing. Unfortunately, due to the type of soil and the specific microclimate created by the tropical forest, it is not possible to recreate a fully cut tropical forest without the use of huge inputs. Because the cut down forest is often not reconstructed, the soil becomes barren and the area of ??the former forest is steppe.
In recent years, the number of cases of weather anomalies and climate disasters caused by climate change related to the increasingly faster global warming process is growing rapidly. The increasingly faster global warming process is the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by industry and the energy sector producing electricity and heat based on the burning of minerals. In addition, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is due to the development of the automotive industry also powered by burning minerals. Greenhouse gases are also emitted by agriculture, mainly livestock production carried out using traditional production technologies without complying with the principles of organic farming. In addition, the burning of rubbish, including plastics, causes greenhouse gases and toxic to humans and other forms of life chemical compounds to be released into the atmosphere. Due to the warming climate of the Earth, the consumption of electricity is growing, because the houses are installed ever larger refrigerators, refrigerators, air conditioners and more electronic devices enabling access to the Internet. The increase in demand for electricity causes a rapid increase in generation capacity in traditional power plants generating this energy based on traditional energy, consisting in burning increasingly larger amounts of hard coal, lignite, mazout from crude oil and other minerals.
Due to the above, a very negative effect of the progressing global warming process are more and more frequent weather anomalies and climatic disasters, above all the more frequent drought causing forest fires. Increasingly larger forest fire areas cause degradation of natural environments. For example, currently (August 2019) there have been Siberian Tundra forest fires at the Arctic Circle, fires of large areas of the Amazon rainforest, forest fires in many places in Europe and in many other places of other continents. This is another very negative effect of the more and more frequent drought and other weather anomalies being a derivative of the progressing global warming process. Droughts and fires very quickly cause impoverishment of biodiversity, soil sterility, degradation of natural environments, decline in the number of living organisms, extinction of many species of flora and fauna and other negative processes.
These fires, especially the Amazon rainforest fires in Brazil are very negative for the Earth's ecosystem due to climate change. The Amazon rainforests produce up to 20 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. oxygen. During current fires (end of August 2019), part of the Amazon rainforest with an area of ??1.5 football field burns every minute. the government in Brazil has announced that it does not have the resources to counteract this problem. It does not have enough firefighters and firefighting equipment to even try to put out the fire. This is a problem not only for Brazil but for the whole world. This is a global problem. The problem of the burning enormous rainforests of the Amazon rainforest should be the subject of urgent convening of a special UN conference as soon as possible, including the participation of many other international ecological organizations, governments of many countries, internationally operating financial institutions and industrial corporations capable of providing assistance and organizing measures and necessary actions to put out the fire as soon as possible. The Amazon rainforest fire is already a serious SOS signal for the Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has apparently been exceeded.
Therefore, quick actions are necessary to extinguish this fire and implementation in Brazil and other countries of the programs of system implementation of sustainable ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy. It is not easy in the situation of a developing country, a country that is just developing its industry and technology in order to achieve a level of economic development similar to the level of income, equipment with technologies etc. in highly developed countries. Therefore, systematic international assistance is needed for Brazil and other developing countries, which lack funds for implementing ecological innovations and implementing ecological reforms, among others in the field of development of renewable energy sources and limiting the plundering economy of logging from the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest fires are a serious SOS signal sent by nature towards humanity. There is less and less time for the implementation of the necessary pro-ecological activities. These are no longer paraphylosophical deliberations as was thought in public opinion at the end of the 20th century. The progressing global warming process is a fact. It is also a fact that it is primarily humans that are responsible for these climate changes that are adverse to life on Earth.
Climatologists estimate that the necessary ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out by 2030 at the latest for effective slowing down of the global warming process. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters. However, there are still a few, max. several years to implement environmentally friendly reforms globally, implement sustainable economic development in economic processes carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use this remaining time to implement this plan. It is the biggest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Regardless of whether man manages to stop the global warming process in the 21st century or not, humanity should maximize expenditure on the protection of the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms.
In view of the above, in the context of increasingly faster climate change processes and increasing environmental pollution, systems for international financing of pro-ecological projects should be created. As part of these systems, international institutions should be created to finance projects for implementing ecological reforms, creating and implementing eco-innovation, etc. Grants should be awarded for research projects in the field of biodiversity protection. In Europe, the institutions that can finance such projects are, for example, European Union subsidy programs, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. On a global scale, the World Bank may be such an institution. However, such programs for international financing of ecological projects are still underdeveloped. International financing systems for the creation and implementation of eco-friendly innovations and pro-ecological reforms in many branches of modern economies should be developed, primarily in the energy sector through the development of renewable energy sources. National and international systems for financing pro-ecological reforms in the green finance formula should be developed.
It is necessary to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development as soon as possible in accordance with the green economy philosophy and to finance ecological reforms from green finance sources. Time is short. It is not certain that humanity will completely reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. It is also not certain that if humanity succeeds, the global warming process will cease to deepen. However, implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development is a necessity and the biggest challenge in the 21st century. Therefore, high economic growth should no longer be a priority, but just the implementation of sustainable development principles in line with the green economy philosophy and financing of green reforms from green finance sources.
Individual countries should cooperate with each other and make key decisions globally, according to which they would recognize that high economic growth should no longer be a priority, but rather the implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development. Some developing countries consider high economic growth to be a priority, but high economic growth usually generates the most garbage, the highest pollution is caused by industrial waste emissions and the highest greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, the scale of this problem is correlated with the level of greening the economy, e.g. how much of the power industry produces electricity in a given country based on renewable energy sources. There are large differences on this scale between individual developed and developing countries.
However, global warming is a global problem, so international cooperation is needed to change priorities. Now in all countries of the world it should be recognized as the most important urgent implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy, even if it is associated with a slowdown in economic growth. Unfortunately, there is less and less time to change these priorities. In connection with the above, it is necessary to transform the classic economy and capitalism into the green economy as soon as possible by implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological economic development, including financing the creation and implementation of pro-ecological innovations and pro-ecological reforms in many branches of modern economies, primarily in energy through the development of renewable energy sources . Ecological refiom financing systems should be developed in the green finance formula.
Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use the remaining time to implement this plan of rapid implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development. It is the biggest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Regardless of whether man manages to stop the global warming process in the 21st century or not, humanity should maximize expenditure on the protection of the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, the development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms. Humanity should transform classical economy and capitalism into green economy as soon as possible.
In accordance with the above, in my opinion, the entire World should reform energy by 2050 in such a way that 100 percent was based solely on renewable energy sources.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In view of the above, I am asking you the following questions:
- Has the classic economy lost its relevance to the energy market and therefore whether the process of necessary proecological reforms in the energy sector involving the replacement of energy sources, ie classic energy sources based on burning minerals for renewable energy sources should be coordinated by the state as a pro-environmental interventionist anti-crisis state?
- Will humanity use the remaining time of the next several decades in the 21st century to carry out the necessary pro-ecological reforms, including the implementation of a plan for rapid implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development?
- Should humanity maximize expenditure on protecting the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, restoring a degraded environment, developing renewable energy sources and other key environmental activities and reforms?
- Should humanity transform classical economy and capitalism into green economy as soon as possible?
- How much time is left to carry out the necessary pro-ecological reforms, including the implementation of the plan for rapid implementation of the principles of sustainable eco-friendly economic development, to avoid global climate armageddon at the end of the 21st century? A dozen or so or several dozen years?
- Is it real that the whole world by 2050 will reform energy in such a way that 100% was based solely on renewable energy sources?
What do you think about this topic?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Please reply
I invite you to discussion
thank you very much
Best wishes
Dariusz Prokopowicz
In my country, Brazil, the main contributing factor to the greenhouse effect and consequent global warming is the deforestation of forests for cattle breeding.
The main gas produce by the cattle breeding is the methane (CH4) that has about two hundred times more negative effect of CO2 that is emitted by industry and cars. Obviously that it depends of the type of industry and the pollutant gases emitted.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
I suggest continuing the discussion on the following topic:
Causes and effects of climate change.
The above discussion inspired me to formulate the following question:
What are the main causes and effects of climate change?
Based on the above considerations and conclusions from the discussion on interesting issues discussed, I formulated the following thesis that in recent years there have been more and more negative effects of faster and faster climate change. One of the main, perhaps the dominant factor of the global warming process, which is moving faster and faster, is the development of human civilization, which is based to a significant extent on the classic energy sector of heat and electricity production and the supply of motor vehicles with the burning of minerals. Below I have described the key determinants confirming the formulated research thesis. To the above discussion I would like to add the following conclusion formulated as a summary of my earlier considerations on this topic: Sources and consequences of climate change.
The progressing global warming process is a fact. It is also a fact that it is primarily human beings that are responsible for climate change adverse to life on Earth. Research conducted by climatologists shows that in recent years the number of cases of weather anomalies and climate disasters caused by climate change related to the increasingly faster global warming process has been increasing rapidly. The increasingly faster global warming process is the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by the industry and the energy sector producing electricity and heat based on the burning of minerals. In addition, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is due to the development of the automotive industry also powered by burning minerals. Greenhouse gases are also emitted by agriculture, mainly livestock farming with traditional production technologies without complying with organic farming principles. In addition, the burning of rubbish, including plastics, causes the emission of greenhouse gases and toxic to humans and other forms of chemical life. Due to the warming climate of the Earth, the consumption of electricity is growing, because the houses are installed ever larger refrigerators, refrigerators, air conditioners and more electronic devices enabling access to the Internet. The increase in demand for electricity causes a rapid increase in generation capacity in traditional power plants generating this energy based on traditional energy, consisting in burning increasingly larger amounts of hard coal, lignite, mazout from crude oil and other minerals.
Recently, another very disturbing effect has appeared confirming the progressing climate change consisting in the warming of the average atmosphere temperature of the planet Earth. A few days ago (February 2020) the world was spreading the news that for the first time in Antarctica the temperature exceeded 20 degrees C. In addition, in the last 50 years the average temperature in Antarctica increased by 3 degrees C. This is further confirmed by climatological studies evidence of an accelerating global warming process and therefore the increasing risks associated with climate change, the increasing risk of climate disasters, etc.
The results of many climatological studies confirm that the very negative effect of the progressing global warming process are more and more frequently occurring weather anomalies and climate disasters, above all the more frequent drought causing forest fires. Growing forest fires are increasingly causing natural degradation. For example, in the middle of 2019, there were forest fires of the Siberian Tundra at the Arctic Circle, fires of large areas of the Amazon rainforest, forest fires in Australia, in many places in Europe and in many other places of other continents. This is another very negative effect of the more and more frequent drought and other weather anomalies being a derivative of the global warming process. Droughts and fires very quickly cause impoverishment of biodiversity, soil sterility, degradation of natural environments, decline in the number of living organisms, extinction of many species of flora and fauna and other negative processes.
These fires, especially the Amazon rainforest fires in Brazil are very negative for the Earth's ecosystem due to climate change. The Amazon rainforests produce as much as 20 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. oxygen. In mid-2019, the largest fires of the Amazon rain forest occurred. During these fires, part of the Amazon rainforest 1.5 square meter area burned every minute. the government in Brazil has announced that it does not have the resources to counteract this problem. It does not have enough firefighters and firefighting equipment to even try to put out the fire. This is a problem not only for Brazil but for the whole world. This is a global problem. The problem of the burning enormous rainforests of the Amazon rainforest should be urgently convened as a special UN conference, including the participation of many other international ecological organizations, governments of many countries, internationally operating financial institutions and industrial corporations capable of providing assistance and organizing measures and necessary actions to put out the fire as soon as possible. The Amazon rainforest fire is already a serious SOS signal for the Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has clearly been exceeded.
Therefore, quick actions are necessary to extinguish this fire and implementation in Brazil and other countries of the programs of system implementation of sustainable pro-ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy. It is not easy in the situation of a developing country, a country that is just developing its industry and technology to achieve a level of economic development similar to the level of income, equipment with technologies, etc. in highly developed countries. Therefore, systematic international assistance is needed for Brazil and other developing countries, which lack funds for implementing ecological innovations and implementing ecological reforms, among others in the field of development of renewable energy sources and limiting the plundering economy of obtaining wood from the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest fires are a serious SOS signal sent by nature towards humanity. There is less and less time for the implementation of necessary pro-ecological activities with each subsequent year. These are no longer paraphylosophical deliberations as was thought in public opinion at the end of the 20th century. The progressing global warming process is a fact. It is also a fact that it is primarily man who is responsible for these adverse climate changes on Earth.
Huge forest areas in Australia also burned from October 2019 to February 2020. About one billion animals died in these Australian forest fires. This is another very negative effect of the more and more frequent drought and other weather anomalies being a derivative of the global warming process. Droughts and fires very quickly cause impoverishment of biodiversity, soil sterility, degradation of natural environments, decline in the number of living organisms, extinction of many species of flora and fauna and other negative processes.
In the context of climate change analysis, it is worth considering the impact of climate change on specific types of living organisms, flora and fauna, e.g. insects. The impact of climate change on insects is definitely very negative. An increase in temperature will drain the green areas where the insects feed. The progressing global warming process will increase fires in areas where various forms of flora and fauna occur, including foraging for insects. These changes will also negatively affect pollinating insects, which over the next several decades will cause a drastic decrease in the number of these insects and this may also mean a drastic decrease in the production of fruit, cereals and some vegetables. Therefore, there may be problems with feeding people and farm animals. The global warming process, which has been progressing ever since the late 19th century, is a derivative of the civilization increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Insects are one of the key types of fauna that have arisen as a result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution of these life forms. The climate changes of the planet Earth, which are the result of the development of human civilization, have only lasted since the end of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century. In the context of the evolution of life forms on Earth, human-induced imbalances in nature are a process that has been underway for a short time. Insects have been on Earth for hundreds of millions of years and now many of their species may become extinct due to human activity, which is practically a short moment in the history of the development of life forms on Earth.
Climatologists estimate that the necessary ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out within the next dozen or so years at the latest for effective slowdown of the global warming process to be effective. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters. Earlier there will be a complete melting of glaciers, the release of methane from the thawing Siberian tundra and other polar regions, an increase in drought, fires and volcanic eruptions. This will cause a chain reaction of climate disasters that are derived from the global warming of the Earth's climate and at the same time the same processes will be the source of further greenhouse gas emissions and an increase in the average temperature at the Earth's surface. If the climate change process enters the aforementioned chain reaction of climate disasters related to the global warming process, then it will not be possible to stop and significantly slow down these negative processes on Earth's life. However, there are still a few, max. several years to implement environmentally friendly reforms globally, implement sustainable economic development in economic processes carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use this remaining time to implement this plan. It is the greatest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century.
If climate change continues to progress faster, in the 21st century, most living organisms will live, most species of flora and fauna will no longer exist on planet Earth. In the worst-case forecasted climate change scenarios, it is suggested that only bacteria that develop at high temperatures will win over climate change. Many species of flora and fauna will become extinct in the next few decades due to the global warming process, which is progressing faster and faster. Climate change caused by this process, including droughts more and more often, is a source of more and more frequent fires. Recently, fires have also occurred in the areas of Tundra in the geographical zone at the Arctic Circle, i.e. where these fires had not previously been. Tornadoes appear more and more often. Glaciers are melting. Lakes in some temperate zones are also drying up.
In connection with the development of civilization, the development of industry that consumes large amounts of water, and also in connection with the progressive warming of the Earth's climate, the accelerating process of global warming, increasingly frequent cataclysms and climate anomalies, such as the increasing frequency of drought, the resources of available clean water are decreasing. As part of protecting natural resources, techniques for effective, economical management of water resources should be improved. The industry should be developing technology for purifying and reusing water. In addition, water purification and reuse techniques in households and agriculture should be improved. As part of environmental purification, sewage treatment plants should be built in each city so as to reduce the discharge of sewage containing toxins harmful to living organisms, to reduce the flow of sewage to rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, which are increasingly polluted.
Climate change, consisting in warming up the average atmosphere temperature of the planet Earth, i.e. the ongoing global warming process causes drying of many areas of the tropical and subtropical zone, and therefore fresh water resources are falling. This will probably be one of the most serious consequences and problems of the global warming process that is moving faster and faster. The issue of falling fresh water resources is one of the most serious problems and challenges for humanity in the 21st century. It is also a problem for biological ecosystems that are draining and therefore biodiversity, including flora and fauna biodiversity on Earth is also decreasing. Climate change, mainly in terms of the global warming of the Earth's climate will cause in many places stepping of existing forest areas. There will be droughts in areas where these negative weather anomalies have not occurred. these processes will reduce the amount of water both on the Earth's surface and in the subcutaneous layers of soil. Also, underground watercourses located in shallower underground layers may dry out in a period of several years in the area covered by long-lasting drought. This type of negative process of warming and dehumidifying the climate in a given area may lead to desertification of areas where vegetation previously occurred. In addition, these considerations should also take into account the impact of agriculture on the condition of rivers, including the quality and purity of water in rivers is large. Fertilizers dripping into rivers change the biological ecosystem in rivers. Mountain rivers in some countries are the only ones not yet seriously polluted. Another issue is obtaining drinking water from desalinated sea water. Due to the fact that there is less and less clean water on Earth. Due to the development of industry, increasing water consumption in households, deep water exploitation, increasing pollution of rivers, ponds, lakes and seas as well as the progressing global warming process, clean water resources are falling.
In connection with the development of civilization, the development of industry that consumes large amounts of water, and also in connection with the progressive warming of the Earth's climate, the accelerating process of global warming, increasingly frequent cataclysms and climate anomalies, such as the increasing frequency of drought, the resources of available clean water are decreasing. As part of protecting natural resources, techniques for effective, economical management of water resources should be improved. The industry should be developing technology for purifying and reusing water. In addition, water purification and reuse techniques in households and agriculture should be improved. As part of environmental purification, sewage treatment plants should be built in each city so as to reduce the discharge of sewage containing toxins harmful to living organisms, to reduce the flow of sewage to rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, which are increasingly polluted.
Droughts that are becoming more frequent in many green and agricultural areas are also associated with decreasing rainfall. Rain is necessary in many climate zones for biological life to exist, for biodiverse natural ecosystems. In addition, rain in many climate zones and countries is essential for agricultural development. Rain is also a source of water in many geographical places, which then penetrates deep into the Earth, feeds water, subcutaneous watercourses, underground, deep water streams. In addition, rain supplies water to rivers and lakes, the living environment of many species of aquatic plants and animals, etc. Rain is necessary for the effective functioning of ecosystems, but also for people. In some places on Earth there is less and less rain. This is a threat to the natural environment, to biological ecosystems, and long-lasting droughts appear. It is associated with global climate change, probably global warming, global warming, global average temperature rise.
Climatologists and scientists from other fields of science, conducting research on climate change and its effects, develop long-term forecasts of these changes. These forecasts show that the continuation of the global warming process over the next few decades may lead to the thaw of permafrost at the Arctic Circle and the release of millions of tons of frozen methane. Then the global warming process will accelerate and the Antarctic meltdown will be unstoppable. The areas in which man will be able to live and live due to the melting of all glaciers and due to the drying of many areas currently covered with vegetation or used for agriculture in the tropical and subtropical zones will decrease. It is also possible to increase Earth's seismic activity, increase in volcanic eruptions. The reason may also be an increase in solar activity over a period of several dozen years, because the current solar activity is low.
So, on a faster and faster global warming process, you will certainly not achieve positive results. Climate change caused by the global warming process will contribute to accelerating the extinction of another thousand species of flora and fauna. Man may also be an endangered species at the end of the 21st century if the pace of the global warming process is not slowed down. Humanity should fully subordinate the development of civilization to the gren economy philosophy and achieve full sustainable ecological development as soon as possible. If this greatest civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century were not met, the average temperature at the Earth's surface would increase by the end of the 21st century by another 3-4 degrees C and the scale of climate disasters and weather anomalies could lead to the inevitable threat of the inability of the human species to survive earth. Then only thermophilic microorganisms such as some bacterial species will win as a result of the increasingly faster global warming process. The intensification of these processes in the second half of the 21st century is probably inevitable. Is human therefore also an endangered species due to the increasingly rapid global warming process? If the average temperature at the Earth's surface by the end of the 21st century increases by another min. 3-4 degrees C is the scale of climate change, weather anomalies and climate disasters will be so large that the human species will be classified as endangered species.
However, humanity should try to slow down the process of global warming, the more that since the acceleration of the process of global warming since the nineteenth century, i.e. since the industrial revolution based on the invention of the steam engine man is responsible. The period of the next dozen or so years, especially the period up to about 2030, is the most important, key for the implementation of necessary pro-ecological reforms, including the transition of all energy from renewable energy sources. In addition, the development of electromobility, improvement of waste segregation and recycling, development of ecological agriculture, afforestation of areas degraded by industry, irrigation of drought areas, etc. are indispensable elements of pro-ecological activities that are important elements in achieving sustainable ecological development, including the transformation of classic economics in green economy.
It is currently difficult to predict the political and economic effects of the global warming process that will appear in a dozen or so decades. One thing is certain, that climate change will generate serious social, economic and political effects. Ice sheets are melting, sea and oceans will rise. Land areas will shrink. As a result of increasing drought and fires, areas suitable for farming can significantly shrink. International population migrations will increase. Access to clean water can also be a problem in many places around the world. So the social, economic and political impact will be serious but difficult to predict at this time. Above all, it is necessary to develop energy based on renewable energy sources so that the rate of adverse climate change can be slowed down.
In my opinion, in the 21st century, the policy of nature protection and biodiversity of natural ecosystems should be improved in connection with the rapidly warming global warming process and the growing pollution of the environment. In connection with the reduction of green areas and forests, rehabilitation and greening of areas degraded by industrial development should be developed. Because the global warming process is accelerating, climate changes unfavorable for nature and biodiversity are deepening, so the issue of protecting natural resources and nature is a global problem. Therefore, the improvement of nature protection policy and biodiversity of natural ecosystems should also take place in the field of international cooperation. In order to protect biodiversity, the implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development in economic processes should be carried out in the following years to a universal, aggregate, national and international level. The implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development should be carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy and pro-ecological reforms should be financed from various sources, primarily from green finance and public finances of the state, and also the implementation of ecological innovations should finance enterprises whose production has a negative impact on the environment.
Sustainable pro-ecological development is a necessity, it is a challenge for humanity to quickly implement it in order to slow down the global warming process. Sustainable pro-ecological development is a necessity for humanity to avoid extermination being a derivative of the increasingly faster global warming process and the forecasted increase in the scale of climate cataclysms that may appear at the end of the 21st century if on the global scale in the next several decades ecological innovations are not realized, widespread renewable energy sources, electromobility will not be developed, increased efficiency of waste segregation, recycling, management of clean water resources, etc. However, objective measurement of ongoing processes aimed at implementing sustainable ecological development is difficult. In my opinion, the methodology for measuring sustainable sustainable economic development should be built on a set of key expected effects of implementing this type of development. In addition to the effects of sustainable sustainable economic development, the methodology of scoring analysis should also take into account all relevant determinants of ecological reforms, including primarily issues of implementing ecological innovations, the scale of development of renewable energy sources, electromobility, increasing the efficiency of waste segregation, recycling and also improving management of clean water resources management, etc.
In view of the above, if humanity realizes this process of pro-ecological reforms in the history of the development of civilization in the next dozen or so years, then the process of global warming will progress more slowly in subsequent years. In this way, when in a few decades the temperature at the Earth's surface will rise slightly due to the increase in solar activity, then humanity will survive these climate changes and will have a period to continue the necessary reforms and civilization changes, it will gain time to take the next necessary pro-ecological activities that will allow humanity to survive XXII century. However, the question still remains relevant: Is human being an endangered species due to the increasingly rapid global warming process?
Sustainable development can be achieved by various methods. Which methods will be chosen is determined by many factors of the environment, the environment of specific economic processes as well as the specifics of economic undertakings and the national economy. However, in the absence of a key development factor, a key raw material, such as water, may be a significant cost barrier to the implementation of the process of achieving sustainable development. Sustainable development in a situation of continuous irrigation of agriculture is not excluded, but will generate high costs. In such a situation, profitable enterprises should be developed in the domestic economy that will finance the costs of the said irrigation. It cannot be ruled out that irrigated poor quality soil will produce high yields with proper fertilization and use, high crop production will be generated and after a period of several or more years it will be possible to create more complex flora ecosystems, including forest next to arable fields and in this the process of achieving sustainable development can be successively improved. Then sustainable development will be analyzed, implemented and improved in terms of the national economy.
In connection with the growing need to implement the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development in recent years, ecological innovations arise mainly in the field of renewable energy sources, improvement of waste segregation techniques, recycling, treatment of polluted water, reclamation of a devastated natural environment, energy-saving construction, electromobility of the automotive industry, etc. more ecological innovations, new technological solutions and technical improvements that are part of sustainable ecological development are also emerging in many other fields of science.
In line with the above, in my opinion in recent years there are more and more negative effects of faster and faster climate change. One of the main, perhaps the dominant factor of the global warming process, which is moving faster and faster, is the development of human civilization, which is based to a significant extent on the classic energy sector of heat and electricity production and the supply of motor vehicles with the burning of minerals.
Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use the remaining time to implement this plan of rapid implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development. It is the biggest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Regardless of whether man manages to stop the global warming process in the 21st century or not, humanity should maximize expenditure on the protection of the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, the development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms. Humanity should transform classical economy and capitalism into green economy as soon as possible.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following questions:
- Are the Amazon rainforest fires of mid-2019 a serious SOS signal for Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has apparently been exceeded?
- How to protect the Amazon rainforest from the negative effects of the global warming process?
- Is human therefore also an endangered species due to the increasingly rapid global warming process?
- What are the effects of the progressing climate change that will be the most dangerous for man and the biosphere of planet Earth?
- What pro-ecological reforms as part of the implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development, in accordance with the Greek economy concept, should be implemented as soon as possible so that adverse climate changes are slowed down?
- What do you think about this topic?
- What is your opinion on this topic?
Please reply.
I invite you to discussion and scientific cooperation.
Thank you very much.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
I think it happens in two ways:
The first way is to cut down trees and plants. The second way by using clean energy technologies.
A measure to reduce the intensity of climate warming is to increase the efficiency of production and consumption of energy resources. The use of solar and wind energy for the production of electrical energy in many developing countries is limited by their high cost.
There is a lot of politics in this approach.
Firstly, there is no certainty that warming awaits us - there are many scientists who believe that, on the contrary, we are at the beginning of the ice age.
Secondly, why did everyone decide that warming is bad (and even disaster). The tropical climate in the past was just provided with a warmer climate.
Thirdly, the measures proposed today to reduce CO2 emissions are for some reason aimed at poor and undeveloped countries, and not at the rich countries, which are more responsible for these emissions.
Fourth, why other measures to improve the climate are not being considered (Stalin's plan for transforming nature, transferring water weaving, Budyko research).
More detailed research is needed.
The answer to this question is ambiguous.
Firstly, today there is no 100% certainty that modern global warming is man-made.
Secondly, there is also no certainty that such a warming is a disaster. In the past there was a warm tropical climate, very favorable for all living things.
Under these conditions, two scenarios are possible:
- first, the one that you offer
- second - to consider how to use warming to achieve a positive effect.
The production of energy from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, represented 45% of the global ecological footprint. The substantial decrease in fossil fuel burning and associated carbon dioxide emissions is vital to avoid dangerous climate change. The sustained increase in world population, its concentration in urban areas and the increase in quality of life standards; they are elements that accentuate the importance of buildings. Buildings are large sinks of energy that currently concentrate almost all human activity. In this context, the relevant and necessary role of efficient energy management and the use of a renewable energy source is essential to stop the process of global warming in the 21st century.
Engineers, architects and researchers have focused on the development and validation of new procedures, at all stages of the life cycle of a building; that guarantee energy savings and the use of renewable energy technologies. Buildings are the protagonists of cities. In cities, most of the energy generated in thermoelectric containers powered by oil, coal or natural gas is consumed. Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings and integrating them into renewable energy sources and energy storage systems is an effective procedure to stop the global warming process in this century.
Unless motivating the people towards environment friendly emissions via social participation, there is no any other way to make people understand this crisis.
Thank you for your answer. Your opinions confirm the theses formulated above. We already know what should be done to slow down the progressing global warming process. But how to accelerate the pace of implementing the necessary environmental reforms? How to increase the effectiveness of the pro-ecological transformation of traditional economies of surplus operating according to the classical economy towards sustainable economies of moderation, operating according to the concept of green economy and circular economy?
What's your opinion on this topic? Regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
By reducing the use of polluting fuels for the environment and turning to less polluting energies such as solar energy.
Renewable energies
The first way to prevent climate change is to move away from fossil fuels. What are the alternatives? Renewable energies like solar, wind, biomass and geothermal.
Energy & water efficiency
Producing clean energy is essential, but reducing our consumption of energy and water by using more efficient devices (e.g. LED light bulbs, innovative shower systems) is less costly and equally important.
Sustainable infrastructure
In order to reduce the CO2 emissions from buildings - caused by heating, air conditioning, hot water or lighting - it is necessary both to build new low energy buildings, and to renovate the existing constructions.
Sustainable agriculture & forest management
Encouraging better use of natural resources, stopping massive deforestation as well as making agriculture greener and more efficient should also be a priority.
Responsible consumption & recycling
Adopting responsible consumption habits is crucial, be it regarding food (particularly meat), clothing, cosmetics or cleaning products. Last but not least, recycling is an absolute necessity for dealing with waste.
We should emphasis on emissions reductions, that decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia. Further our policy makers should give importance to address global warming include the development and deployment of low carbon energy technologies, policies to reduce fossil fuel emissions, reforestation, forest preservation, etc.
Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.Emphasis should be given on emissions reductions decisions at national and international level with long term goals.
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These are some important areas can effect on slow down the global warming process
1. Renewable energies
The first way to prevent climate change is to move away from fossil fuels. What are the alternatives? Renewable energies like solar, wind, biomass and geothermal.
2. Energy & water efficiency
Producing clean energy is essential, but reducing our consumption of energy and water by using more efficient devices (e.g. LED light bulbs, innovative shower systems) is less costly and equally important.
3. Sustainable transportation
Promoting public transportation, carpooling, but also electric and hydrogen mobility, can definitely help reduce CO2 emissions and thus fight global warming.
4. Sustainable infrastructure
In order to reduce the CO2 emissions from buildings - caused by heating, air conditioning, hot water or lighting - it is necessary both to build new low energy buildings, and to renovate the existing constructions.
5. Sustainable agriculture & forest management
Encouraging better use of natural resources, stopping massive deforestation as well as making agriculture greener and more efficient should also be a priority.
6. Responsible consumption & recycling
Adopting responsible consumption habits is crucial, be it regarding food (particularly meat), clothing, cosmetics or cleaning products. Last but not least, recycling is an absolute necessity for dealing with waste.
Widespread practice of combining energy resources and increasing energy efficiency, utilization of solar and wind energy. Introduce water-saving technologies everywhere.
Development and implementation of educational programs at all stages of education and the negative consequences of climate change and the measure of the impact on them.
This discussion confirms that there are many pro-ecological factors, instruments, actions, etc. that can help slow down unfavorable climate change, including the ongoing global warming process. So this is a positive aspect of this discussion. it is to be hoped that man still has the opportunity to save the biosphere of planet Earth for future generations. Therefore, there are many determinants of the pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy to a sustainable green economy / circular economy that should be developed and applied in order to slow down the global warming process.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Dariusz Prokopowicz Yes, global warming can be slowed down if we are willing to do away with the causal factors, and adopt efficient alternative measures. The following link is solution oriented:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-solutions/
Thanks!
Using solar energy is one of the solution instead of non renewable energy system
In the line with Global warming some years back I have expressed my views which I submit herewith for your kind perusal
This is my personal opinion
Dear Arbind K. Choudhary,
I agree with your opinion. I also believe that global warming can be slowed down if we want to protect the biosphere of planet Earth and reduce the risk of accelerating and irreversible phase of the progressing global warming process and to avoid intensifying droughts, forest fires and other negative effects of climate change. Thank you very much for providing the link below on this important topic: [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-solutions/]. I invite you to continue the discussion on this issue. All the best!
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear M.K. Tripathi,
Yes, it is very important to use the available resources of animate and inanimate nature wisely and intelligently. It is very important in the context of improving the processes of implementing the principles of sustainable development into economic processes.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Belete Tessema,
Yes, in the context of counteracting the global warming process, significant pro-ecological activities and undertakings include: - afforestation of post-agricultural wastelands and post-industrial degraded areas, - development of renewable energy sources, including solar energy, etc. I fully agree with your opinion.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Rohit Manilal Parikh,
Thank you very much for the interesting publication you have sent on the important topic of the ongoing global warming process.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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