Lunes, Disyembre 9, 2013

Climate Change


“Our World is Changing”

 
Climate Change is a serious global problem and its “Alarm bell” manifestations can no longer be ignored. It constitutes an immense scientific Diocletian sword that hangs over humankind’s head.

Several factors interact to bring about climate change and among them are greenhouse gasses the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the incessant burning of fossil fuels.
Although it would be self-deceiving to assert that humans can’t be faulted for bringing about climate change its deleterious consequences the undeniable fact screams than man is the author of his own woes. As global population upsurge remains uncontrolled, more mouths to feed exploit natural resources. Forests, which provide oxygen, are indiscriminately slashed and burned and devoted to agricultural production. Thus with oxygen sources diminished each day the volume of carbon dioxide released increases dramatically.

The burning of fossil fuels in industrial production, power generation transport systems, and other purposes has been attributed to as the principal culprit behind the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere which in turn, punctured a hole in the earth’s protective ozone layer as big as Antarctica. As more cities and population centers come into existence, more roads, dams, bridges and infrastructures are built, waste materials pollute The soul water and air, global environment gets inevitably damaged, and in the process, effects climatic change. Thus, man himself is driving the nails to his environmental and climatic coffin.