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It is not the time to become complacent or apathetic. That which you should do would be to act positively and constructively. There is disaster and devastation looming. We should not be put off by the truth, however 'inconvenient the truth' may be. It is time we put our shoulders for the wheel and focused with all of our concentration. Because climate change is coming to swallow us up. And when we waste a lot of time, it will really engulf us. Then you will see only blackness around. We are beset by the greatest catastrophe imaginable, something that we now have only discussed and seen enacted in exciting cinemas until recently, in fact. If climatic change spreads its tentacles over us, you won't be able to read this article anymore. Because mankind will be extinct! Understanding Global Warming Climatic change is really a phenomenon which has been occurring for quite a while. Our blue planet gets hotter because of a rise in the volume of fractional co2 within it. Millions of carbon dioxide have been produced because of the burning of non-renewable fuels and non-renewable resources such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, crude oil, oil shale, etc. The usage of fossil fuels on the widespread basis started in the 16th century throughout the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and in the colonies of The uk. The commercial Revolution witnessed the invention of the steam engine, that has been operated by using standard fuels. But within the centuries, scientists gradually discovered that burning fossil fuels leads to a high degree of smog. The combustion of fossil fuels produces a high proportion of noxious gases such as co, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, etc. being emanated to the atmosphere. These poisonous gases provide an adverse influence on the climate and also the ecology of our own planet. Additionally they affect our health and wellness negatively. Oxides of sulfur and nitrogen when dissolved in water form corrosive acids, which can be capable of wreaking irreparable damage on mausoleums and historical edifices that are made from marble. Sulfur dioxide plus water gives sulfuric acid (highly corrosive acid) Nitrogen dioxide plus water gives nitric acid (highly corrosive acid) Sustainable Development Hence, when such toxic gases dissolve in and form a combination with rainwater, the inevitable outcome is an acidic type of rain popularly called acid rain. This acid rain can eat away the surfaces of architectural splendors as continues to be mentioned previously. A refinery close to the Taj Mahal of Agra, India have been releasing such deadly gases into the air above the mausoleum. These gases led to the development of acid rain which had an atrophying effect on the spotless white marble surfaces with the Taj. The destruction was alarming the control over the refinery needed to be hauled up through the Government asia and also by environmental activists. The refinery was told to reduce its emissions through the use of high-end manufacturing techniques and also to turn off a few of its operations to avoid the fabulous monument and tomb of Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal (after whom the monument is known as) from crumbling totally into dust. The refinery did its best by modernizing a few of its manufacturing methods, by planting myriad trees, by developing an ecological park that's typically the habitat of several migratory and rare types of birds. Such a sincere response from your refinery to protect one of the seven modern wonders around the globe from decay placated the us government and the activists. However, environmental watchdogs should never sleep. There are hundreds of industries around the world, which violate environmental laws and norms, everyday. Steps towards safeguarding environmental surroundings should be executed over a long-term basis. Short-term environmental projects and sudden forays into 'environmental protection schemes' for the sake of publicity and image-boosting are neither desirable nor useful. Sustainable development and environmental conservation would be the only weapons we have to fight global warming. Greenhouse Effect The temperature of our own planet is rising as a result of greenhouse effect. The burning of non-renewable fuels contributes to the emission of greenhouses gases. Co2, water vapor and methane are a handful of well-known greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases absorb and present out infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases tend to trap heat and elevate the temperature of our own planet. Hence, it really is due to these greenhouse gases, which our planet gets heated by way of a tremendous extent and climate change is establishing. This continuous rise in temperature may have cataclysmic and far-reaching consequences for the planet as well as on our lives. The hot air causes glaciers to melt and snow capped mountain peaks to thaw. In the event the heat is very intense, ice and snow on most massifs around the world will melt very fast. The melted ice and snow will flow in streams into rivers and finally into seas thus causing an unprecedented surge in sea levels. Rivers will swell and seas will overflow onto and inundate the land. Coastlines decreased, submerging entire countries. Besides a worldwide deluge, extreme weather patterns, such as prolonged high temperatures and cold waves, floods and droughts, and violent storms, is also upshots of world warming. Deforestation Deforestation is another aspect that precipitates global warming because it causes a unique increase in how much fractional co2 inside the atmosphere. Climate change has already emerge on our world. However, when climatic change sets in, in full swing, it will uproot all existing forests of our planet and make the complete annihilation of marine life. So, deforestation triggers global warming and climatic change, in turn, causes forests to dwindle. Exactly what a vicious loop! Ozone Depletion The ozone layer that shields our world in the direct and unforgiving ultraviolet (UV) sun's rays gets depleted gradually. Certain gases better known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) or freons and bromofluorocarbons or halons which are created by our manufacturing industries are eating into the ozone layer. Aerosols manufactured by various industries are causing the ozone layer to wear away too. This eating away with the ozone layer is making a hole or a depression inside the ozone layer, commonly known as the ozone hole. As the ozone hole is growing in area, it's permitting more UV rays to enter into the Earth's atmosphere. The improved concentration of UV light in the Earth's atmosphere is rendering our world uninhabitable. Excessive exposure to UV light causes skin cancer and cataracts in humans. Excessive contact with UV light also causes irrevocable injury to various species of animals and plants. The fallout of this is surely an irremediable trouble in the food chain. The depletion with the ozone layer is definitely a controversial issue as it has pros in addition to cons. The irony from the '(w)hole' matter is the fact that ozone can be a greenhouse gas. An excessive amount of it'll bring about climatic change while not enough from it can lead to an individual population which is rife with melanoma. Meltdown This meltdown is different from the cost-effective meltdown that we recently experienced. Basically we have proved repeatedly that people can recovery from your recessionary meltdown, we still haven't proved to ourselves or anybody that people can remain unfazed or unaffected if all the icecaps and glaciers of the world melt of course, if we are consumed by this all-encompassing and horrifying phenomenon of global warming. Are We Prepared...? Sadly, we are not at all willing to tackle a disaster for these a fantastic magnitude. We're divided amongst ourselves about which nations should cut down emissions by what extent. In various meetings and summit conferences, we just bicker about figures, levels and percentages even though the Earth's biological clock keeps ominously ticking away. There is no unity whatsoever between the developed, the developing as well as the underdeveloped nations on the score of worldwide warming. All agree that climatic change is really a threat that spells universal disaster and devastation. However the main bone of contention is which country is responsible and which country must take the initiative to curtail emissions drastically. Blame games and passing the buck are rampant, and pointing accusatory fingers, putting the onus, and making recriminations and counter recriminations are the order for the day, while global warming steadily continues to rend our planet. Developed nations invariably seek to pressurize and bully the less developed nations even though the less developed nations cry hoarse to rally support in order to pin down developed nations. The mercury shows no signs and symptoms of abating. It keeps shooting up with a frightening pace while politics, one-upmanship, heated debates, power and orations reign. The actual Enemy What on earth am i all doing, many of us? Time will never wait. Arise, awake, everyone from the slumbers and quit this wrangling and infighting. Will we want another calamity such as the one that happened 65 million years ago and obliterated all of the dinosaurs from your planet? No. We certainly should not be erased. Then what's stopping us from uniting against a standard cause? What exactly is stopping us from leaving our individual cares aside? All things considered, in truth, we have all been created by exactly the same Creator. Rather than highlighting this fact, exactly why are we determining to no way and focus on our various disparities, the various walls we've built that separate nation from nation, state from state, race from race and human from human? It is possible to greater enemy than climatic change? An enemy that lies within us? Green Book The selection is ours. Either we join hands making a concerted effort to defeat global warming or allow the enemy within us create more factions amongst us and defeat all of us. If we cannot maintain the enemy within us at bay, it's going to ultimately conquer all of us. And, if we, humans from the 21st century who reside about this beautiful Earth are mean and vile enough to choose to protect power and politics, vested interests, and racism, as opposed to our endangered planet, you should be vanquished by climate change. Because our real adversary, it seems like, is not global warming but we ourselves. |
