Global Warming: A Great Responsibility for Every Human Being
by Every individual, great or small, should all be concerned about the dangers of climate change by helping stabilize the world’s climate. Although the international community is now aware and is taking immediate and determined steps to prevent atmospheric degradation, still, its impact was seen to have produced vast devastation and death of numerous living things and loss of material goods. World leaders were even warned not to compete but rather collaborate to find ways and means to save our only planet.
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A persuasive and convincing information drive for every community and everyone should be expeditiously disseminated so people should act now by doing all possibilities to prevent greenhouse effect which is making the earth hotter. If pollutants are not reduced, such emissions from cars, factories, power plants, and household’s noxious wastes, could get the earth warmer resulting in an upset of the earth’s climate that would trigger climate change of catastrophic proportions. The most identified solution is by reducing carbon dioxide emissions by reforming the world energy system.
Creeping Climate Change
The slow build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is a very serious problem of the world in this generation. Masked in climate variability, creeping climate change was “below the radar” undetected by low capacity monitoring systems of developing and least developed countries. As a result, the intensity of devastation kept on increasing to an almost unimaginable loss of lives and properties. Various tropical cyclones caused enormous damage to property and agriculture, some of which were high-impact tropical cyclones in Japan, Cook Islands and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) observed a large increase in tropical cyclone energy, numbers and windspeeds in some regions during the last few decades in association with warmer sea surface temperatures. At the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change held in Copenhagen in March this year, a unanimous panel of scientists and over 2,500 delegates from 80 countries, confirmed that “the worst-case scenario trajectories or even worse are being realized,…the climate system is already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived. There is a significant risk that many of the trends will accelerate, leading to an increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climatic shifts.”
The Head of the Philippine delegation to the Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) held on 07 April 2009 at Bonn, Germany, invoked to the Chairman of the Convention saying:
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Post Commentbabel Fish
On August 24, 2009 at 9:27 am
I actual went green many years ago, I am now about to purchase an electric motor bike (30,000 pesos) and will convert to solar power in the very near future (100,000 pesos approximately).
All the things listed i have been doing for years and I also make my own garden fertilizer out of my bio gradable waste. Everything is recycled, plastic, metal etc.
I do not own a dish washer, washing machine nor an aircon (missing from your list) my fridge is on low and I walk more than I use transport.
I do not use anything else than electric to cook and frown at bonfires and any form of wood burning.
However my neighbors seeming like to burn anything and use wood to cook their food, its cheap and they live in poverty.
My last bid of greeness is to go solar power and that is because the method of electric power supply here on Negros is fossil fueled supply.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everybody could afford to do what I am doing. Unfortunately mainly in the Philippines will go on polluting as they really can not afford to do anything else but burn fossil fuels.
Meanwhile China is burning fossil fuels like mad and we get to my point
Its just not in my control to save the world, I can only do what I feel is right but know that too many people can not afford to go clean and green, those of us that can will hardly effect what is happening. It leave just one serious option of only governments have the power and the strength to make the world free of fossil fuel dependency.
However I value your article and advise and agree its what we all should do but add most of us can’t. Its the governments that need to listen. We need to shout at them they are opening their ears but we need to shout louder to the really hear.
babel fish
On August 24, 2009 at 9:29 am
“so they really hear” sorry
rqcemanes
On August 24, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Wow! I admire you for that Bob. Keep up the good works! I just hope you could influence your neighbors. I believe that if you could show them the advantages of what you are doing, they might change their ways. Action speaks louder than words and prayers truly works too, even for those impossible with men.
I really thank God I was also given a chance to contribute a little to mother nature. I also plant trees and vegetables. In fact, I no longer buy vegetables in the market, I just harvest it in my own backyard. It is really amazing and the feeling is so wonderful, harvesting the fruits of my labor.
Vast information campaign on environmental education in any form, may it be from actions, word of mouth, and the media will really help a lot to educate those who are ignorant of what is happening to our environment globally.
We just have to be patient and determined to do our part. Anyway, even if it is just a little act, if appropriate, it is better than doing nothing.