Chazer Dan Manuel

WA #3: Socio Political Essay

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November 7, 2007

For every action that an object makes, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is
how the law of interaction states it. Comparing the law to what is happening today, every single
thing that a person does even if it is just simple, leads to different major catastrophes. These
catastrophes ruin the lives of people by wrecking their houses, damaging their daily living and
especially killing them. One of these main catastrophes is global warming, which has already
been studied for many years now, but scientists still have no idea on how this disaster can be
solved.
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal. Far from being some future fear, global
warming is happening now, and scientists have evidence that humans are to blame. For decades,
cars and factories have spewed billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and
these gases cause temperatures to rise over the past century. Additionally, the warming is caused
mostly by excess burning of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Furthermore, raising animals for food is another cause of the said calamity as well as land
degradation and pollution of air and water. It appears to be one of the most notable contributors
to the most dangerous environmental problems at every scale.
The most obvious impact of global warming is changes in both average and extreme
temperature and precipitation. For most places, it has resulted in more hot days and fewer cool
days, with the greatest warming happening over land. Warming has enhanced coastal erosion, has
lengthened the growing season, has melted ice caps and glaciers, has caused cities to run out of
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water, and has altered the range of some infectious diseases among other things. It has also put
pressure on ecosystems, the plants and animals that co-exist in a particular climate, and has also
caused the extinction of numerous species by exterminating the climate zones in which they are
able to live. The residents of poorer countries who do not have the resources to fend off changes
in climate are going to suffer most. In the future, it is very likely that the continuing rise in
temperatures will lead to more frequent heat waves and virtually certain that the seas will rise,
which could leave low-lying nations awash in seawater. Moreover, warmer temperatures will
alter weather patterns making it likely that there will be more intense droughts and rain events.
Experts say that the buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cannot be
quickly reversed with existing technologies. Because of the scale and time lag, scientists say that
a better strategy is to treat human-caused warming more as a risk to be reduced than a problem to
be solved.
Ultimately, global warming has impacted life in many ways, and it is indeed a threat to
the entirety of earth. So, people have to act quickly before it is too late, or else they have to pay
for the price.