Essay 4: Climate Action
There is no country that is not experiencing the drastic effects of climate change Greenhouse gas emissions are more than 50 percent higher than in 1990. Global warming is causing long-lasting changes to our climate system, which threatens irreversible consequences if we do not act. I find that global warming is a serious issue, although second to the possibility of nuclear war, and that it could potentially destroy our way of life and planet as we know it. Note I did not say destroy Earth because that would be too extreme; there will likely be some organisms or even humans left to rebuild in the rubble. However, if left unchecked, it can and will trigger a disaster. If the temperature goes up another few degree, methane pockets underneath the oceans will be able to burst. Also, large amounts of methane hidden under ice, with the ice gone, will be able to emerge. Methane, CH4, is an even stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, somewhere on the scale of ten times stronger. And after that th