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For many years, people had prioritized economic growth over the environment, but now there is a change in how the world does business. This year President Obama veto the Keystone Pipeline that would have brought oil sand to U.S. refineries from Canada, the pipeline would have come with jobs, oil, and environmental risk, he did not want to risk it. So yet again, the president was at odds with congress, and congress tried to override his decision, but half or just over half decided not to overrule…

The rising of temperature in the world has been thought of as a major problem for officials, but soon, it will affect you and me too. Climate change to you right now may not seem like a big deal to your life at the moment, but some of the things you may read here, could change the way you think. Even though people think the world is not changing climate, there are true facts that are leading to it, it is necessary that the community should consolidate to prevent the climate from increasing while…

Five times in the history of Earth, mass extinctions of unimaginable death scale almost wiped out most of the life on the planet. The last event occurred 65 million years ago when Earth was impacted by an asteroid killing the dinosaurs and other organisms (70 per cent of the species). The deadliest of these extinction events happened more than 252 million years ago. The event is known as the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event or the “Great Dying” that killed around 90 per cent of all species on…

As of now earth is home to more than 7.4 billion people, which was 7.2 billion just last year. The world 's population is quickly rising and the earth cannot sustain an infinite amount of people. The idea of population control raises a lot of questions throughout our society, and the common problem of overpopulation in a country is almost ignored when it comes up. What happens when the earth becomes so full of people that the earth itself is overpopulated? Do we start migrating to Mars and other…

Global warming is the process in which sunlight that is being redirected back into space gets trapped inside of the Earth’s atmosphere due to the abundance of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The more heat that is trapped and absorbed by such gases causes the overall temperature of Earth to rise. It is natural and anthropogenic – human induced – climate changes that are attributed to increased gases in the greenhouse effect, though anthropogenic changes play a larger role in global…

An Inconvenient Truth is a fascinating documentary about global warming by director Davis Guggenheim. The film is based on a multimedia presentation that gave Al Gore in over a thousand cities around the world in recent years and presents a disturbing picture of the destruction that is causing global warming and horrible future that awaits us if this problem is not addressed soon. Gore presents a graph demonstrating a connection between CO2 levels and temperature during 600.000 years based on…

Imagine a future where a growing population experiences shortages of food and water as well as growing temperatures. These gradually increasing temperatures bring with them such dire environmental consequences that not only are many different species threatened with extinction, civilization finds itself threatened as well. Though this sounds like the setup for a science fiction movie, this is actually just one of the possibilities for the future due to the long term effects of global warming.…

In “Now or Never”, Bill McKibben uses an academic, yet casual, style while addressing the world on the topic of global warming. McKibben starts his essay by urging that what we do in preventing global warming will determine what kind of planet we leave behind for future centuries. The essay develops further by stating that global warming is scientifically sound. McKibben provides scientific research, showing that temperatures around the planet are on the rise. The essay takes a turn, however,…

Finally, many countries, make reaching a comprehensive international climate change agreement difficult by taking on defensive attitudes rather than constructive ones regarding the degree of responsibility they have in global warming in comparison to other states. This, is a determining factor in how much they believe they should need to make changes and contribute to reducing their emissions. In her article: “Negotiating challenges and climate change”, Joyeeta Gupta uses negotiation theory to…

The Automation Enigma World problems have always faced society. According to a Pew Research study “ISIS, and climate change”(1) were the top two global threats that people were afraid of. The biggest global threat that face humanity is one that has also greatly improved our lives. That threat is Automation. In this paper I’m going to explain why it’s the greatest global threat, how Automation has effected me, solutions that experts have given in the New York Times “Room for Debate”, and what my…