Global Elders

clean air regulations, knowing full well that these regulatory means may increase the cost for more vehicles in the production and sale to consumers. Next, the sitting presidential administration has a stake since they usually promise to address global warming – they want to leave office with positive marks in this area. Alternatively, the court system, specifically the Supreme Court has a stake since their decision sets precedent for future similar cases. And finally, the people of the U.S.…

Are humans causing global warming? For the past fifty years these questions are being asked more and more by scientists who believe that the Earth’s climate is getting steadily warmer at a frightening rate. Earth 's ever-changing climate has seized the attention of scientists whom would have world accept that without a great change to human behavior, the world will end up destroyed. However, scientists are using unreliable information from unreliable sources, as well as scientists do not have…

population. In return, agriculture adds to this effect because farms release methane. Trees and other plants are needed because they yet they take carbon dioxide in and release oxygen which is good for environment and if significant, can even help fight global warming. These plants are being cut down at an alarming rates also due to human activities. Although, the earth has always had warming trends, the current warming trend is more significant because it is occurring at an extraordinary rapid…

Negron At this point in time, the world has reached a point of no return climatically and the impacts of “Global Warming” are inevitable. Given current atmospheric research, climate change is proven to be a true, unnatural feedback caused by human activity. Due to the medias selective exposure of climate change information, specifically of the skeptic views of the topic, society has not grasped global warming as a current and vital issue. Additionally, the refusal to join climate protection…

The Kyoto Protocol was designed to fight the global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming is defined as the increase of the earth’s average surface temperatures due to the greenhouse effect, which acts to trap heat that would have otherwise escaped from earth. The Kyoto Protocol is able to reduce global warming by forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, therefore reducing the greenhouse effect. The initial goal of the Kyoto Protocol was to reduce worldwide…

I believe that the human population is on it’s way to reaching carrying capacity and we as a nation will continue to grow exponentially and we will exhaust our resources inevitably. There is no one who knows exactly when the human population will exceed all resources but scientists are able to predict what the limit is and what would happen. As of 2011 scientists estimated that the maximum carrying capacity for the world would be around 9-10 billion people. The problem with so many humans…

Warrant: we should value our life and the environment we live in Claim: we should not produce and buy cut flowers backing of warrant: Back of warrant: a lot of people get sick of inhaling harmful chemicals. High amount of CO2 can contribute to the global warming Rebuttal: there are more things that are harmful and produce more CO2 than planting and transporting flowers Flower is not a novel object to us, as almost all of us have seen flowers once in our life, either by…

In the “Perceptions of Climate Change: Linking Local and Global Perceptions through a Cultural Knowledge Approach” Beatrice Crona unraveled “the complexities of local vs global perceptions around climate change,” and essentially realized that there is a big difference between actuality and perception of how climate change is affecting the world (Crona, Wutich, Brewis & Gartin, 519). Climate change is not just a local problem, it is a global nightmare. It is not only a short term snag; it…

have a hand in what we call global warming. Global warming can be defined as a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth 's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect. This is caused by an increase in pollutants such as carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons, and results in climate change, the melting of polar ice caps, and rising of sea levels. Our…

On April 25, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident happened in Chernobyl. An explosion and fire in Nuclear Reactor Number Four sent radiation into the sky and caused ecological damage that would create abnormalities in nature for decades. This has given humanity the responsibility to restore that part of the environment. As a species that inhabits the world, it had become their responsibility of them to take care of the habitats of the planet. The environment is a beautiful thing that was…