Angelika Cotejo

BA Psychology IV-A

Before the Flood: A Reaction Paper

So, what is really climate change? Is it a change in temperature? In humidity?

Climate change affects more than just a change in the weather, it refers to seasonal
changes over a long period of time.

Since elementary, I have been exposed to the issue of climate change, they are being
discussed together with global warming. Since then, I was aware of the situations that
affects our environment, like, illegal logging, improper waste disposal, dynamite fishing,
land, air, and water pollution, and etc.

Climate change is getting worse overtime. Humans are still not aware of the Earth’s
depleting climate. The glaciers are melting faster than it should be, the sea levels are
rising, the forests are balding, the biodiversity in our ecosystem is degenerating, the
animals and marine life are going extinct, corals are dying, floods are getting worse
because there are no longer trees to stop them, the plastics in the ocean are as many as the
fishes, waste disposal is not getting better, soil erosion, acid rain, and we humans are still
clueless no matter how many signals the Earth is giving us. We ignore all these signs and
we wonder why is there climate change.

Humans are always the one to be blamed for all of this. We are the one who is
inflicting all this toxins in our environment and atmosphere. We cut down trees and
replace them with factories who exerts harmful smokes and no trees to clean carbon
dioxide in the air. Globalization and industrialization is good for our economy but not for
our environment, the chemical waste and toxic by products that they produce pollutes our
water resources and causes air pollution

Since institutions are privatizing the Earth’s resources and human population is
increasing overtime, our limited resources cannot handle the rapid growth of our
population. Our resources has been commercialized. Humans are producing so much
waste that our renewable resources can’t keep up. If we continue with this kind lifestyle
and behavior, we will come to a point where we will be depending on the supply of
artificially manufactured clean water to drink. Let us not wait for the time when we will
have to buy artificially manufactured air that is safe to breathe.

Human as we are, it is our responsibility to live sustainably. If we live only by our

means and take only what we need, the world would be a much better place. We should
use our voices to campaign for the betterment of our environment. We should all take part
in renewing our resources since we are the primary consumer. The change starts within
us, big or small, a change is a change. Earth being a common atmosphere, we shouldn’t
consider it as our common dump. We all want our homes to be clean, then why can’t we
do it to our Earth, it is our common home anyway.