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How many times have you heard about the climate crisis, how many times have you seen posts about the bushfires and ice glaciers melting on social media, how many times have you liked or posted a photo on your Instagram story acknowledging the climate crisis? Now think about what you have done positively to activate change. Climate change is a serious worldwide issue. Internationally and domestically we are losing the battle to make a difference and to something positive towards halting the spiralling effect of climate change. In Australia we are currently battling the hazardous drought and bushfire season, In Antarctica, the icebergs are melting, In Iceland, they held a memorial service for the largest lost glacial iceberg. The world is heating up, there are thousands and thousands of facts and statistics worldwide to prove that the world is heating up. So why is everyone ignoring it? People are so caught up in materialistic dreams and the network of money, that they simply don’t care why or what is heating the earth. People are too self-centered to even consider that we need to make some immediate adjustments to how we live. The future generations will be growing up in a constant sense of fear, concerned about their welfare and the fear of the unknown. In contrast, it can be said that the older generations had a good life and were blessed with opportunities. Therefore the question needs to be raised, so why can’t we? The answer is clear to all, we need to change what we are doing and we need that change now.
Initially, global warming is one of the harshest forms of climate change. Since 1880, the global temperature has risen by nearly 2° Celsius, in 2012 the arctic sea ice sunk to the lowest in history on record at only 3.57 million square kilometers while in 1979 it was around 7.9 million square kilometers, 2003 we have lost 1,870 gigatons of ice sheets in Antarctica and from the ice glaciers melting the sea levels are rising 3.3 kilometers per year. Meanwhile, the dramatic climate change is causing havoc for our environment, Entire animal ecosystems are collapsing and animal welfare is at an all-time low. Since 2010, the entire polar bear population has dropped by 40%. With only around 20,000-25,000 polar bears left worldwide. Another critically endangered animal is coral, coral bleaching is a serious threat to the world's underwater ecosystems, coral bleaching is when coral becomes anxious from the change of network, instigating it to lose its color and ultimately die off. Approximately only 46% of the world's coral is considered healthy. We need to change course if we want to stop further habitat loss and ensure resilient wildlife populations, both in the Arctic and around the world.
In the world today Australia is being called the ‘country on fire’ over 60 major fires are burning at this moment. 20 of them remain uncontained, and these statistics do not include pop-up spring fires. The Amazon Rainforest major fire in 2019 burnt around 600,000 hectares of forest was burnt and only lasted 1 week. However, the recent Australian bushfires have burnt 1.7 million hectares (4.5 Million acres) and have lasted for nearly a month. While the fires have been raging through bushland and affecting rural homes. In the natural ecosystems located in the fires, 2/3 of the koala population has been wiped out. Nearly 400 of the 700 koalas located in the forest have been killed. In 2018 there were 16,000 recorded bushfires in August worldwide. In 2019 there have been nearly 80,000 bushfires during the same time. What is going to happen to these statistics in 2020? In one-year the bushfires have increased by 5 times. It is no myth, global warming is coming. Careless acts have led to the inevitable ending of life as we know it. “You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes” – Greta Thunberg.
The world's carbon emission levels are skyrocketing dramatically. The world is heating up around us, and one the world starts to heat, it is extremely hard to stop it. The Amazon rainforest prevents carbon emissions enormously. In 2016 when the major Amazon forest fire took place, 0.2% of Amazon was burnt, realising 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in less than 4 months. That is nearly as much as Denmark released in an entire year of coal mining. As far as the Amazon forest goes it is still burning, it is still on fire destroying thousands of hectares of protected rainforest. Meanwhile, we are releasing millions and millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from forest burning, and we are also losing the most important trees in history for major carbon emission prevention. The Amazon releases 6% of the earth's oxygen and is named the carbon emission sink, meaning it absorbs immense amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and we are currently losing it.
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