Fighting a common enemy in climate change
Climate change is a phenomenon that affects everyone but many do not pay close attention to it except those that are most affected. For example, those in areas that have witnessed one or more extreme weather events will probably have more to say than the rest of us, unless one deliberately and continuously seeks information about the subject.
It has been a while since the subject of climate change has been trending, even if it were to be just within the scientific world and occasional mention in the news when it comes to the political side of it. That was in the past though. Nowadays, more people know about climate change even if it were to be just on the surface because the negative effects of it are clearly playing out and constantly being carried by the news.
There is absolutely no way we can talk about erratic climate and its mitigation without talking about the emission rates of greenhouse gases, especially those that are linked to anthropological activities as very little can be done to the emissions that are due to natural events such as volcanic eruption. While greenhouse gases play a huge role in the overall functioning of the earth's ecosystem and make it habitable to mankind, they become harmful to the planet beyond certain concentration thresholds in the atmosphere.
The greenhouse gases primarily function to absorb some of the radiation from the sun and keep the planet at a temperature that is habitable by man. Without these gases, the entire planet would just be a mass of ice without any living organism. However, as more and more anthropological activities lead to more of the gases being emitted, more radiation from the sun is being trapped leading to an increase in the global temperature, also known as global warming.
Temperature is a very important variable when it comes to climate as it acts as the control center for all other climatic factors such as precipitation, pressure, wind, salinity in the oceans, etc. Hence, a little variation in the global temperature can cause huge multiplier effects on other climatic factors. Because these factors often work together to produce certain weather phenomena, an increase in the world's temperature brought about by greenhouse gases leads to unpredictable weather conditions.
Mitigating Climate Change
Scientists have been advocating for the mitigation of climate change for a while in order to forestall events bordering around extreme weather as some parts of the world are currently experiencing. There have been different policies in place at the inter-governmental level to limit emission rates and return the planet to its former self. A carbon tax is even a thing in some places of the world which is an amount of money paid by individuals or the government for their emission-driven actions.
At another level, campaigns have been launched worldwide against the removal of forest layers as these serve as sinks for one of the greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide. In addition, the use of fossil fuel is gradually being replaced by other forms of renewable energy to further reduce emissions to the atmosphere. Unfortunately in all these mitigating actions, the whole world is not on the same page and the concentration of greenhouse gases has always been rising.
While some regions of the world can boast of having taken significant actions to cut emissions, some regions of the world cannot say the same, either due to insincerity or because they cannot simply afford to take those actions. Many countries still depend largely on fossil fuel for different purposes, forests are constantly being removed and replaced with non-forest structures, many technological products are still based on emission.
In underdeveloped and developing countries, poverty is a major driver of actions that lead to emissions, especially when it comes to the degradation and removal of forests. Forest layers are explored for timbers, firewoods, and other forest products that serve important purposes for the populace. Agricultural activities and food production remain based on slash and burn practices. Many of these countries are entirely on an opposing page to the rest of the world because their survival is largely based on these activities.
We either sink or float together
One thing about emission is that one can never know where the effects would be. A gas released at one of the extreme parts of the world will eventually diffuse and thin out. In other words, the entire world shares only one atmosphere, and what is released into it in one part of the world eventually gets to the rest of the world. Hence, an integrated approach is required if there is anything else to be salvaged in the situation.
First, the governments of the world need to be sincere in their approach. Many industries are still busy polluting the environment with different pollutants with the government turning blind eyes because they pay huge amounts in taxes. Government should rather focus directly on cutting emissions instead of leveraging on it to generate more income or in high hope that heavy taxation will deter profit-seeking, environment-oblivious capitalists.
The onus is on the entire world to come together and end poverty in every part of the world because the activities in one part affect the rest. We cannot keep playing the game of I do not care if my neighbour dies of hunger as long as my own stomach is filled. Eventually, that your hungry neighbour might die and the stench from his corpse will make your home inhabitable. It is a known fact that the world has enough resources to end poverty/hunger at every corner if only people would be less greedy.
Every inhabitant of the planet should be self-conscious of their environment and limit emissions either directly or indirectly. This can be achievable by continuous campaigns, policies, and law formulation. Activities leading to emissions should be criminalized but before doing so, economic situations should be improved so that people do not have reasons to go the criminal way except for greed. All efforts to limit deforestation, promote reforestation, etc would start yielding results if there are alternatives.
We either be ready to put in the effort to mitigate climate change or be ready to pay the ultimate price of destroying our planet.
Further Reading
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
- https://www.who.int/health-topics/climate-change
- https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/adaptation-mitigation/
- https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/effects-of-climate-change
- https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/
- https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/what-we-do/mitigation
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Climate change is a battle for everyone. Climate change mitigation should be a collective global effort. I strongly agree that we never know when and where it hit. We all deserve a world without pollution, but our actions seems to opposite tp what we dream of.
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Superb post mitigation of climate change is something everyone has to take an active part in before it gets to late
I am shocked when I see people not believing climate change is happening do they have blinkers on it is so evident all around the world eith changing weather patterns
On a side not I think the term global warming is part of why some don’t see the change as happening climate change causes extremes in both heat and cold
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Good to see this kind of post here.
It's a truth that at many places extreme changes are taking place.
But still most of the people and the Governments don't want to do anything about it.
I think we all have individual responsibility towards nature and we should try to fulfill that responsibility of ours.
Thank you
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You may miss the sign of the times in saying so. As it seems, governments all over the world do promote the demonstrations on "climate change". It's becoming one of the hottest topics. And it very well could be the case, that the governments will interpret their citizens in this way:
etc. etc.
While this may sound reasonable at first sight, this could be an eco-dictatorship, if a culture cannot develop slowly into such new paradigms but is coerced to an abruptly shift towards it.
Also, you can count on the fact that the big companies will not accept a profit loss in what they like to mass produce and sell to the peoples and will stay too big to fail, acting as their own legitimized entities outside of democracy.
It's been a while since I read your blog. It's good to know you are still logging in.
I wonder at those who consider this climate change issue to be exaggerated. The seasons as I remember it are gradually evolving into something else and it is worrisome. I hope solutions can be found in my life time.
Apart from raising our voice, still many are attempting to pollute and harm the environment in their
As far ann I have noticed, deforestation is not only making us devoid of free oxygen also causing the wildlife to die.
We announce eco-friendly stuff but only for advertisement, from bottles to cars if everywhere this culture would be supported. We will have enough strength to protect our planet from getting wounded.
I just wish this shouldn't happen
As you say, "poverty is a major driver" and we need to focus on offering poorer nations incentives to fall in line. There needs to be more ingenuity around combatting food poverty. This should not simply involve hand-outs though, but rather education on crop farming, food production, population management, renewable energy sources. "Give a man fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for life" is how the saying goes. You made an important point about the need to tackle the underlying reasons that prevent a large portion of the world's economies from tackling climate change.I came to your post via #dreemport
Tell me, in which project you are currently working? Do you support or run a repair café? Do you help people to maintain and repair their devices, so they can reuse it or up-cycle them? Are you in a local agri-culture group and help with the planting and harvests? Are you a worker at a local market who brings and sells the goods to the people? Or a small scale farmer who runs a shop on his property? Or, maybe, you are a lawyer, concerned with the bureaucratic hurdles to make it possible within urban cities to get allowance to develop spaces into food gardens or otherwise friendly activities? Do you read hundreds of boring pages of technical nature in order to understand how you can meet the requirements?
What is it, you do?
Hi to you,
If you want to do something for your environment, you might be exceedingly busy right now putting together your own group, in conversation with the locally accessible political actors, proposing small-scale solutions on how to bring the much-touted environmental friendliness into being, without looking to the large-scale solutions that, if we so choose, will also offer us just that.
You would need a lawyer to explain the legal and bureaucratic hurdles you would inevitably encounter in the regulatory catalogue of what you are and are not allowed to do as an individual. You would have to deal with hundreds of pages of documents of a bureaucratic and technical nature, learn a language and a subject matter to give your local authorities a handle with which they would have to convince their superiors.
They would have to be inspired in such a way that they would refrain from the fact that there is no mass market to be developed here, but, on the contrary, first of all investments have to be made and spaces have to be created, which in turn encounter opposing interests. You would have to get the local politician away from his assumption that the upcoming election campaign is more important than your small-scale solution, with which no media coup can be landed. All this would take hard work, many hours of your life, for which you would not even be paid, let alone be able to rally many fellow campaigners around you, who would also bring a lot of time and patience to keep the conversations alive and the counter-arguments out of the way.
If the common people were so interested and concerned about their living space, their front gardens would not look like vacuumed living rooms, devoid of life. Meaning, people like to talk about the end of the world and are afraid of everything possible and impossible, without recognising their own inertia. I do not exclude myself from this. I have neither the knowledge nor the inspiration to deal with technical (very very boring) details and to found citizens' initiatives, because when you then call them together and want to motivate them to take responsibility for their own activities, the citizens like not to know what to do and expect you to tell them.
If these words do not frighten you, if you remain enthusiastic about a technical solution and still want to work on it against all odds, I sincerely wish you all the best. There are always people who do just that. Of course, they are not very well known or famous. You would have to look for them in your environment and find them, if you are not such a person yourself, and then support them with your time and your strength.
No offence.
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It really makes me wonder what would happen with combined with a catastrophic natural climate change event like similar maybe to the one of a large volcanic eruption of like a Krakatoa in the late 1800s.