Climate Change - A Global Challenge, A Global Concern

Climate change is currently one of the most talkedalready gone extinct because the abrupt alterations in
about issues of modern times. One can read about itweather patterns have made it impossible for them
almost everywhere. Climate change can beto survive. 100 to 1000 times higher than the
considered synonymous with global warming as it canaverage, or background rate, making our current
be defined as a change of climate which is attributedperiod the 6th major mass extinction in the planet's
directly or indirectly to human activity that alters thehistory! If we don't act now, it won't be long before
composition of the global atmosphere and which is inwe will be facing our won extinction.
addition to natural climate variability observed overWe must act now while we still stand a chance. Each
comparable time periods.and every one of us, in our own little way, can help.
Most people couldn't care less about climate changePlanting trees and conserving fuel and energy is the
because they think it is just a simple change ofbest way to stop our dreaded enemy. If you have
sometimes the weather's too hot and sometime thevacant parts in your lot, grow plants and trees in it,
weather's too cold than usual. But climate change isn'tconserve gasoline and electricity whenever possible.
as simple as this, for climate change has the potentialThe less fuel and energy we burn, the less we
to alter the very ways we live our lives. Unusually hotcontribute to the green house effect. One more
temperatures, mostly caused by the thinning of thething we can do is spread the word to our friends
ozone layer and the green house effect has causedand relatives. If we combat climate change together,
rapid melting of the polar ice caps resulting inwe will prevail.
continuous rising of sea levels. The sea levels haveLet us patronage green energy and lessen the
risen so high they have begun to devour islands, andburdens we have brought to Mother Nature. Let us
even entire countries. Right now, a huge part of thesupport the revolutionary Biosphere Technology - the
country of Maldives has already been swallowed bynewest process of getting sustainable energy which
the ocean, and experts believe that Indonesia mightturns waste into green electricity.
be next. If things go as they are now, time will comeWe all live in the same planet; it is our obligation to
that the entire earth will be submerged under water.preserve it. So let us do our part now, and save
Not only does climate change threaten to deprive usMother Earth. Climate change is something that
of our land, it also ends lives of living beings thatconcerns us all, it is a challenge that we must all
cannot adapt to the chaotic weather the world isovercome.
experiencing. Many species of plants and animals have