By: Zamoya Pettigrew
When people hear the phrase climate change, many ideas come to mind. Animals, food, humans, ecosystem, ice caps, emission fumes and a whole bunch of others, however, the list is too long to write. Day to day, Earth experiences a breakdown of its functional systems as humans live on their everyday lives not caring much about their planet. Now I don’t mean to blame the human population, but let’s be honest, society is a strong contributing factor in the development of climate change. The Earth is crumbling, the humans are populating, and people don’t understand what they can’t see.
When it comes to scientists coming up with ideas to decrease the growing levels of climate change, the idea of zero waste has come into play. Zero waste is an opportunity for earth to get a break from the destruction piles of trash while people use reusable bags for groceries and/or food, “that will decrease the amount of toxic waste that transmits into the air from garbage and especially plastic”, Freshman Lynn Colton expresses. The emissions of toxic waste like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, get released from all types of items that burn, causing high climate change levels. If you think about it, county waste dumps burn and leave items to decompose every day that no one sees. Lynn says, “Heavy machinery and cars release massive number of fuels and other fumes that travels within the air and affects the weather patterns”. Now I’m sure the thought of climate change effecting weather patterns probably did come to mind, but not as much as a solid idea. Unfortunately, climate change is another reason why this season has been filled with loads of storms and the annoying separation between hot one day and cold the next.
As we know, 71% of the world is covered with gallons of ocean water filled with millions of species of aquatic organisms and the other 31% covered by forests filled with millions of small mammals. Producing fumes that conflict with stable weather patterns, happens to have a great effect on animals as well. Junior Rebecca Stewart expresses, “Depending on the animal, they either live in cold or warm water, so if the water is warm then they have to migrate somewhere else and vice versa of cold water”. All types of chemicals travel through the air, fall, and then find their resting place in the ocean, effecting the homes of the animals if they have to migrate somewhere else. At the rate the oceans and the air are depleting, the thought of moving to new planet may be a thought to come into play. Rebecca stays she’s “never really thought about that before, but I would semi-think so cause if the earth really goes to shambles, then what the heck are we going to do”. It takes time to find life on a new planet and resources, but maybe the discovery of a new planet to live on is a good idea to go through with given the state of the world.
Climate change has causes many of struggles with the human population and everyday life. Climate change not only effects humans, but as well animals as their homes are contaminated with chemical fumes destroying the make-up of a daily life. Polar ice caps are melting, food for humans is decreasing, and continues to break down day by day.
When people hear the phrase climate change, many ideas come to mind. Animals, food, humans, ecosystem, ice caps, emission fumes and a whole bunch of others, however, the list is too long to write. Day to day, Earth experiences a breakdown of its functional systems as humans live on their everyday lives not caring much about their planet. Now I don’t mean to blame the human population, but let’s be honest, society is a strong contributing factor in the development of climate change. The Earth is crumbling, the humans are populating, and people don’t understand what they can’t see.
When it comes to scientists coming up with ideas to decrease the growing levels of climate change, the idea of zero waste has come into play. Zero waste is an opportunity for earth to get a break from the destruction piles of trash while people use reusable bags for groceries and/or food, “that will decrease the amount of toxic waste that transmits into the air from garbage and especially plastic”, Freshman Lynn Colton expresses. The emissions of toxic waste like nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, get released from all types of items that burn, causing high climate change levels. If you think about it, county waste dumps burn and leave items to decompose every day that no one sees. Lynn says, “Heavy machinery and cars release massive number of fuels and other fumes that travels within the air and affects the weather patterns”. Now I’m sure the thought of climate change effecting weather patterns probably did come to mind, but not as much as a solid idea. Unfortunately, climate change is another reason why this season has been filled with loads of storms and the annoying separation between hot one day and cold the next.
As we know, 71% of the world is covered with gallons of ocean water filled with millions of species of aquatic organisms and the other 31% covered by forests filled with millions of small mammals. Producing fumes that conflict with stable weather patterns, happens to have a great effect on animals as well. Junior Rebecca Stewart expresses, “Depending on the animal, they either live in cold or warm water, so if the water is warm then they have to migrate somewhere else and vice versa of cold water”. All types of chemicals travel through the air, fall, and then find their resting place in the ocean, effecting the homes of the animals if they have to migrate somewhere else. At the rate the oceans and the air are depleting, the thought of moving to new planet may be a thought to come into play. Rebecca stays she’s “never really thought about that before, but I would semi-think so cause if the earth really goes to shambles, then what the heck are we going to do”. It takes time to find life on a new planet and resources, but maybe the discovery of a new planet to live on is a good idea to go through with given the state of the world.
Climate change has causes many of struggles with the human population and everyday life. Climate change not only effects humans, but as well animals as their homes are contaminated with chemical fumes destroying the make-up of a daily life. Polar ice caps are melting, food for humans is decreasing, and continues to break down day by day.
