Climate Change And Its impact On The Environment.
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Climate Change And Its impact On The Environment.

It is the duty of everyone to protect Mother Earth.

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Climate Change And Its impact On The Environment.
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The Earth's climate is changing due to man's activities and nature itself. Accordingly, protecting the environment is the crucial task of everyone.

The earth's climate is very active and always changing through a natural cycle and mostly by humans' undertaking. Today large amount of greenhouse gas is being released in the atmosphere, thereby causing global warming, pollution and sickness. As the world population is rapidly increasing and with the advent of technology and the industrial momentum, more pollution is being emitted in the atmosphere.

Human causes of climate change are multiple: the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century saw the large-scale use of fossil fuels for industrial activities. Also, changes in greenhouse gas concentrations, sulfate aerosols, black carbon, deforestation and land use changes and other activities have all led to the rise in the emission of carbon dioxide. By the way, greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet.

Numerous natural causes that are also responsible for climate change include variations in the Earth's orbital characteristics, volcanic eruptions, and variations in solar output, natural aerosols, clouds and water vapor. Other prominent causes are ocean currents, comets and meteorites to name a few.

All these human and natural causes of climate change have a tremendous impact on the environment and in our individual lives. For example, Bird Flu, cancer, cholera, Ebola, plague and tuberculosis are just a few of the diseases likely to spread and get worse as a result of climate change, according to a report released by the Wildlife Conservation Society

In addition, the weather is getting more rapidly extreme.The oceans are getting hotter, expanding and becoming more acidic. A warmer atmosphere causes the planet's snow-pack, glaciers and sea and freshwater ice to melt and engulf islands and low-land areas. It is reported that global sea level rises by 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century. Climate change is also a major threat to agriculture, and natural habitats become hostile to plants and animals

Climate change is a serious matter, so much so that it led to the Paris Agreement of October 2016. The Paris Agreement (French: Accord de Paris) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020.

Above all, the universe is not the inheritance of some elected officials to decide as they wish; it is our collective property, which implies a sense of duty and responsibility. It is the task that every committed human being must partake with the motivation of leaders and governments of the world. Regrettably, President Donald Trump stated two weeks ago that “as of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country."

President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement is foolish and without precedent. He clearly set his economic priority over the health of the environment. His decision is not only affecting the U.S. environment, but the world's. President Trump is a man who is fascinated with playing Russian roulette with important social and political issues. He clearly prefers economic advantages to reducing pollution and to having a healthy environment and a better world. What a shame!

Trump's decision is obviously motivated. The United States is the second-largest global emitter of carbon dioxide. Its emissions are 50 per cent larger than the EU's and its emissions per head are twice those of that bloc or Japan. The withdrawal of any world leader from the Paris Agreement labels that official as irresponsible and rather like someone from the planet Mars who is unaware of the global warming and its impact on the earth environment.

Climate change is going from bad to worse. It is now reaching a critical point. It's time to reverse its perilous course because planet Earth is our shared home and it is our duty to protect it. Whether one believes it or not, we are all the products of our own environment.

With the commitment of every individual and every government's determined contributions to the environment, a considerably reduced amount of carbon dioxide and green gas will be emitted in the atmosphere. Consequently, the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe will, indeed, become safe and healthy. This is our capital gain and our purpose.

“We have a single mission: to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation," Francois Hollande, former president of France.


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