Introduction
It is an interesting fact that the global average surface temperature has increased by one degree since the nineteenth century. Furthermore, all the Earth’s area covered with ice is constantly reducing by 3.2% every three decades. These signs demonstrate that the menace of global warming is not a hoax. The main point of this research is to identify various possibilities and consequences that might be caused by global warming and to discuss theories of this phenomenon’s prevention.
Global Warming Consequences
According to NOAA, the oceans’ temperatures are constantly rising, which can be witnessed by an increasing level of waters in multiple maritime cities. Moreover, some meteorologists have already identified which regions of our planet are likely to be flooded, and which territories will have to face hydrological droughts. It is estimated that many countries’ economic systems will fall due to global warming because some poor Commonwealths will start taking loans to provide themselves with the vital amount of supplies. Moreover, some living regions that will be overheated or flooded will be abandoned by the native populations. People will start to inhabit much safer places and territories, which will also present a problem of overpopulation because there is a lack of such places on Earth.
Food and Supplies
Laura Geggel (a scholar who develops strategies of humanity’s opposition to global warming and works with New York University’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program) claims that the ecosystems that humanity uses for producing food will also be damaged by global warming. This issue is essential for our planet’s population due to the possibility of famine. The majority of seas will not be able to provide people with seafood anymore due to the increasing temperature of the sea waters.
This natural phenomenon is estimated to exterminate approximately sixty percent of edible fish species. Moreover, different farmers are likely to go out of business due to the possible lack of supplies for the livestock, which will decrease valuable food resources. The prices for food might also increase due to its inaccessibility in different parts of the world.
Healthcare and Electricity
The governments of many European countries are also concerned about global warming’s impact on humans’ health because some lethal diseases may become widespread around our planet due to the rising temperature. Moreover, Geggel says that many hospitals and clinics might be destroyed, which will increase the number of patients in other healthcare facilities. The populations of mountainous regions might suffer from skin cancer, whereas African lands are likely to stay uninhabited due to the local unbearable weather conditions. Besides, the world’s oceans, rivers, and seas provide humanity with a certain percentage of electricity every year. Global warming might also reduce the productivity of this energy source by flooding multiple power stations.
Ways of Preventing the Vital Problems
Steven Rose, a Senior Economist and Technical Executive from Electric Power Research Institute stated that the menace of global warming is close. Various governmental leaders are currently developing and considering all possible and efficient ways of preventing or lowering the detriment of the world’s population. Decreasing the temperature in different countries is a challenging process that requires a plethora of investments.
For instance, multiple factories manufacturers, and other inefficient facilities might be closed or renovated according to the new standards of venting, working process, and required resources. One of the most significant problems that increase the temperature in the atmosphere is the fuel that people use for their cars, ships, motorcycles, and other vehicles on a daily basis. As different kinds of fuels are mixed with oxygen, the sun’s temperature can easily heat the air up. Therefore, many city administrations in developed countries are considering the laws that restrict people to drive cars with explosion engines in particular territories.
Instead, people are allowed to use vehicles that run on electric power. Besides, it is essential to use only natural or ecological material for erecting such buildings as private houses and offices. Joeri Rogelj is a scholar who researches on connecting insights from geographical science with climate policy and energy modeling. Rogelj works at the IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis). Rogelj and his colleagues claim that the climate agreement that was established in Paris by European and other countries’ leaders obligated responsible people to develop and to imply various solutions to the forthcoming problem in the territories of their Commonwealths. The provided requirements are to reduce the temperature on Earth by two degrees.
Analyzing all the aforementioned information, it becomes evident that the main problem that humanity has to overcome in order to prevent global warming is to reduce the usage of our planet’s resources by saving its energy in different ways. It is estimated that people’s gadgets consume approximately fifteen percent of the world’s produced electricity. Moreover, the Earth’s population produces more carbon dioxide than it is possible for our atmosphere to cope with.
Conclusion
The main point of this research is to demonstrate and to accent on some possible consequences of global warming. Although this natural phenomenon does not depend on the actions of humanity, there are various methods that might help to prevent and to prepare people for this catastrophe. Global warming will lower the quality of life on the surface of Earth by reducing the food sources, increasing various disease dispersion, and so on. Some people do not understand that the menace of global warming is real and might entirely change humans’ life on Earth. This unawareness might be even more dangerous than multiple floods and droughts around the world.
Works Cited
Geggel, Laura. “How Would Just 2 Degrees of Warming Change the Planet?” Live Science. 2017. Web.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017. Web.
Rogelj, Joeri et al. “Paris Agreement Climate Proposals Need a Boost to Keep Warming Well Below 2°C” Nature, vol. 534, no. 1, 2016, pp. 631-639.
Rose, Steven et al. “The Paris Agreement and Next Steps in Limiting Global Warming.” Climatic Change, vol. 142, no. 1-2, 2017, pp. 255-270.