Scientists have been warning since the 1980s that strong policies were needed to limit emissions. Various countries and international community are with efforts to cope with the situation. But I don't think there is any decrease in carbon emissions. Similarly deforestation is also on its way toward increase. Till now we have no concrete policy to be adopted for climate change. Question arises, why to be hopeful about any positive change?
Global warming refers to the upward temperature trend across the entire Earth since the early 20th century, and most notably since the late 1970s, due to the increase in fossil fuel emissions since the industrial revolution. Worldwide since 1880, the average surface temperature has gone up by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F), relative to the mid-20th-century baseline (of 1951-1980). Climate change refers to a broad range of global phenomena created predominantly by burning fossil fuels, which add heat-trapping gases to Earth’s atmosphere. These phenomena include the increased temperature trends described by global warming, but also encompass changes such as sea level rise; ice mass loss in Greenland, Antarctica, the Arctic and mountain glaciers worldwide; shifts in flower/plant blooming; and extreme weather events.
Both issues are very serious and need due attention and the required effort to control these phenomena. I am agree with Dr Nafees Mohammad that no concrete policy has been adopted to fight against these serious problems.
Climate change in the coming decades - even if global warming remains below 2 ° C - will adversely affect animal and plant species worldwide. If the world adopts the "normal" approach, we will see a rise of 4.5 degrees Celsius, which can lead to the death of many species.
The most important thing the world can do is to keep global temperatures to a minimum by doing everything possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. Simply put, we must stop burning fossil fuels.
Until big business begins to suffer the consequence of climate change, we will have no hope of reversing it in the near future.
I think the American environmental lawyer and advocate James Gustave Speth pointed it correctly:
More damage is caused by the wars between countries.That should be stopped.
Let us hope for the best. Ozone depletion has been considerably checked.
One has to look into both aspects of development to build infrastructure and improve quality of life of human being and climate change.
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I would be hopeful if the signs of world politics show a common will to want to change something, even if it causes costs. But I do not see this will at the moment, the United States is a striking example. It must also be borne in mind that everything we do now to stop negative climate change will only have a demonstrable impact in several decades to come. This is a fatal situation.
Wse can do : 1-show politicians the scientific data. 2- publish the data and the name of politicians that received them- 3- try to be candidate of some party and present projects 4r-i Participate in N.G .O ( or be part of one of them in your city, province etc
Stricter sanctions must be imposed on culprits of the environment, especially those who illegally cut down trees as well as companies that do not have proper strategies in reducing and/or managing their carbon emissions.
We need something stricter than just 'the polluter pay system' which gives the wealthy the platform to trade nature as if it was just a commodity! Our policies must allow for swift prosecution of culprits who defile the environment, both the poor and the rich!
Maybe it is time to let scientists govern the planet and stop stupid wars and destruction by politicians
Nature has its own in- built mechanisms for monitoring and regulating the harms which humans have inflicted on her. However, the restoration process has its own constraints. As a case in point, if the earth's temperature is risen by another two degrees centigrade, the nature's self regulatory mechanisms lose their efficiency. As such, human intervention fails ,because at a certain level, nature will not respond to intervention measures. Man's insatiable greed for exploiting the earth has exceeded the safe limits. With America leaving the climate change deal, and with man's selfish , apathetic ways of using natural resources blatantly, there remains a very dim hope for saving the environment. Let us all pray for the return of a spiritual approach wherein human competition is replaced by cooperation because without it the frightening rate of environmental destruction cannot be slackened.
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