“On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is “unequivocal,” and that human activity has “very likely” been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had “likely” played a role.” (NYTIMES)
After attending a lecture (sitting next to Prof. Scheller) about climate change and the various effects it has on the planet, I decided to look deeper into exactly what is the issue and is there anyway that we (as a society/race/species) can slow down, stop, and even REVERSE the adverse effects we have inflicted upon our planet.
Lately it seems like climate change is a topic that many people have been bringing up and I have even heard it talked about in regular conversation, but it is not something that I feel we are urgently trying to deal with. What are we planning on doing with this?? It is having disastrous effects on biodiversity and even soon to be crop diversity. In the latest article we read for class, Brown and Funk state that, “some of the most profound and direct impacts of climate change over the next few decades will be on agricultural and food systems.”
What are we as a society doing to stop this? I don’t believe that “going green” is really the adequate answer seeing as not everyone is doing it (Montana doesn’t know this concept about green except for the fact our trees happen to be that color).
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