Climate Care

For many years, we have been taking our environment for granted. We have been letting nature itself fix what we have been altering. But several things have shown us how wrong we are, and the climate changes are one of them. It is quite clear that scientists from all over the world disagree on the levels of such alterations and the risks it offers, but what we know for sure is that, no matter how much it affects our planet, it is definitely happening. Therefore, we must start caring about our environment, and this means caring about the climate.

Global warming is affecting the entire world as we know it. Snow and ice are melting in a faster pace causing the sea levels to rise and consequently threatening several species, such as the polar bear which is being left without no natural habitat. The polar bear needs the ice to survive, and even in Alaska, there are moving up north in search of better grounds. Moreover, we have been witnessing many floods, devastating storms, droughts, which mean damages to ecosystems and their species. What happens is that people are taking too long to realise is that even a small change in the average temperature has huge effects on our planet. But, the signs are everywhere. Even the USA, which refused to cooperate with the world's struggle to reduce CO2 emissions, is now experiencing its consequences. There have been more catastrophic hurricanes assaulting the country than ever seen before. Even the USA national parks are under threat, affecting several animals, including their wildlife symbol, the grizzly bear. As we can see, climate care is vital at this point.

We all know what is causing so many events: the greenhouse effect phenomenon. But what cause such phenomenon? Mainly, it is caused by methane, nitrous oxide, and especially CO2 emissions. Furthermore, most of these emissions are due to the use of fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal burning), to chopping down forests, and farming, which alone is responsible for half of all emissions. Next on the list is energy consumption. Simply, the cost for the environment is too high. We must help protect the Earth; we must care about the climate if we want things to have a different ending. It is past the time to start doing something about it.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential. All our day-to-day activities have an impact: flying, driving, heating our home, using electric devices, etc. So, we should start at reducing fossil fuel consumption by having well insulated houses, by switching off whatever is not being use, by driving less and taking public transportation more, exchanging old devices by energy efficient ones, avoiding plastic product, recycling, controlling our waste, among others. In addition, there is a new trend which involves calculating the amount of CO2 one produces and offsetting it. Offsetting here means compensating our CO2 emissions by funding projects on renewable energy, forest restoration, energy saving, etc. There are several websites that provide such calculation, for example www.climatecare.com. Many companies and a great deal of people are adopting this trend. It is easy to become environmentally friendly. Because if you care about what our future generations are going to inherit, you must care about the climate and the alterations it provokes on our planet.

Lucien Oliveira is a freelance writer with strong interest nature and wildlife. You can find more about earth, global dangers and climate care. Read more about nature.