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CHALLENGES FACING THE WORLD TODAY
1.Global Warming / Environment 2. Poverty 3. Impending Oil Crisis 4.Over Population 5.Disease - Cancer, AIDS etc 6.Terrorism
GLOBAL WARMING
This thin layer is being thickened by pollution. When there is increased levels of CO2 temperature goes up as more heat is being trapped in the atmosphere.The Earth's ecological system is the most vulnerable part of the Earth's atmosphere.
The Ozone Layer is thin enough that we are capable of changing it's composition.
In 65 ,000 years from ice records from Antarctica, CO2 levels have never been above 300 parts per million.
Today CO2 levels are way above what they have ever been. Over 400 parts per million
Ifwe keep burning fossil fuels at the current rate, in less than 50 years it will be 800 parts per million.
Due to this increase in CO2 levels the temperature of our atmosphere is increasing.
One of the many consequences of this temperature increase is that the glaciers of the world are melting rapidly.
40% of the World's population relies on drinking water from the rivers and springs that are fed by the melting water of these glaciers.
Within the next century,
40% of the World's population face a serious shortage of water because of this melting.
The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland
has more than doubled over the past decade.
Glacial ice currently covers a tenth of the Earth's surface and the average ice cap is 1500m thick.
That's a substantial amount of water.
Small temperature changes can make a large difference. After the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago, the average global temperature went up by just 5 degrees......
but it was enough to raise the sea level by a massive 120m!
The ten hottest years on record have occurred in the last 14 years.
When ocean temperatures get warmer that causes stronger storms.
Japan has set the record for typhoons in recent years - 10 typhoons!!!
The US has had a record number of tornadoes - 1717!!!
The US has experienced a string of big hurricanes ending in Katrina.
The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes
has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places
like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
At least 279 species of plants and animals are already
responding to Global Warming, moving closer to the poles.
Deaths from Gglobal Warming will double in
just 25 years - to 300,000 people a year.
Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss of shelf ice
in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.
Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction by 2050.
But, isn't there disagreement between scientists about the effects about Global Warming, whether it is real or not?
Actually not really. Papers from scientists have been reviewed on every article published on Global Warming over last 10 years. A 10% sample taken of 928 articles. How many disagreed that we are causing global warming?.....zero.
Has this happened before?...
Yes...
the Tobacco Industry.
There are good people in politics across the globe, who hold this crisis at arms length, because if they acknowledge it and recognise it, the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.
"it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
Quote by Roger Reveille
It took 10,000 generations to make the population 2 billion people.
Then in one human life time population will go from 2 billion to 9 billion.
Something very different is going on, we are placing more pressure upon the environment.
Only two nations on Earth have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the
US and
Australia.
POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS
Steps to creating change either personally or globally are:
1. Awareness: Education is the key to promoting personal and global awareness. Doubt, apathy and indecision are the enemies to the World's problems.
2. Interrupt the old pattern or habit: Associating PAIN/PLEASURE e.g. realising that if we don't change our current actions it will lead to massive pain in the near future but if we do, it will lead to the pleasure of saving our delicate world.
3.Find an alternate pattern: i.e. Finding new renewable and greener energy sources but ideally in a commercially sensitive way so as not to destroy our economies.
4.Condition in the new pattern: Reinforce the new actions and behaviors until they become habitual.
SOME PRACTICAL THINGS YOU CAN DO
Change a light: Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent one will save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
Drive less: Walk, bike, carpool or take public transport more often. You'll save on pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don't drive.
Recycle more: You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.
Check your tyres: Inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Every gallon of petrol saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!
Use less hot water: It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead, 350 pounds of CO2 saved per year.
Avoid products with a lot of packaging: You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
Adjust your thermostat: Moving your thermostat just 2 down degrees in winter and up 2 degrees up in summer, could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.
Plant a tree: A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over it's lifetime.
Turn off electronic devices: Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you're not using them will save thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
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