Joseph Ozigis Akomodi

The accelerated global warming is primarily a result of intensive human activities that lead to increased emissions of greenhouse gases and degradation of natural ecosystems. The most significant factors are:

Ecological and Environmental Protection Aspects:

• Human activities disrupt natural cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and water, reducing the biosphere’s capacity to regulate climate change.
• Ecosystem degradation diminishes their resilience and adaptive capacity, increasing the vulnerability of human communities and biodiversity.
• Effective environmental protection requires integrated approaches that include emission reductions, ecosystem conservation and restoration, and the application of sustainable technologies and practices across all sectors of society. Managing human activities that cause climate change is a key challenge of modern society and requires a multidisciplinary approach within ecology and environmental protection to ensure the long-term sustainability of the planet and quality of life.

The activities responsible for accelerating climate change include combustion of fossil fuels and management of various industrial operations, all contributing to a spike in the earth’s average temperature by creating a thermal blanket. There is a consensus that the combustion of coal, oil, and natural gas hinders the atmospheric escape of heat into space, thus keeping the earth relatively warm. In addition, human activities like deforestation have mitigated the earth’s ability to capture carbon dioxide. The burning of forests further exacerbates the situation by returning stored carbon into the atmosphere. The rise in temperature is partly as a result of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from specific industrial processes – states and companies have become more attentive to their roles and responsibilities in the context of climate change. In a way, the actions of humanity to guard against rising global temperature acts as evidence that the world, or a section of it what is making a significant positive difference. In other words, the recognition of the problem is the first step in solving it.