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figure 1 source: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Environment/TrendTemperature Fossils fuels are running dry low, with an expected less than fifty years worth of it left for mankind's consumption.For the past century or so, mankind has leisurely used fossils fuels as though it's limit was a bottomless pit.Now, we face a progressing problem of shortage of fossil fuels. New sources energy are being invented to replace fossils fuels which take millions of years to form.We have been depleting nature's resources and using it to benefit ourself but harm nature. There are still many ways that the environment is suffering, such as pollution of water and the piling stacks of waste that we produce every single day.I definitely agree that the environment is indeed suffering.We are implementing measures to slow down the process of nature depleting but we may never be able to completely stop it neither can we reverse the harm that has been done.We can only do what we can, that is to reduce further suffering for the environment. yeechern XD
Is the environment suffering? Are we doing more harm instead of protecting mother nature when it has given so much to us for the past centuries?The artic circle gapping ozone hole is expanding every single day.Ice bergs are melting, ice shelves are breaking apart, increasing the sea level.Flowers are blooming outside of their seasons.Nature is telling us we have to do something to save our Earth.
Carbon dioxide emissons has drastically increased over the years so have sulphur dioxide emissons.Industrialistion has led to the rise in number of industries and factories which means increase sources of pollutants.The poisonous gases produced then escape into our atmospere.Carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide mainly adds up to the acid rain that plummets down onto our Earth.These acid rain destroy sculptures such as the greek scultures and statues in Greece.The rain falls into ponds and rivers, acidifying the waters causing it to be an uninhabitable enviroment for aquatic life to survive in. Benefits for human race but problems for mother nature.Is that really a right thing to do?
Sky-high greenhouse gases contributed to enlarging the already gapping hole in the artic circle. These greenhouse gases trap heat and prevent radiation from being reflected into space.As a result, there is a significant increase in the global temperature today as compared to a century ago.Ice shelves breaking apart, ice bergs melting increase the sea level.Low-lying land will soon be submerged like the lost world Atlantis. Artic creatures are not able to migrate through the artic because their paths have been obscured by the melted ice.With reference to figure 1 below,
global temperature increased about half a degree celcius. This will result in increased flood risk, impact on various aspects of human race such as agriculture.
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