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This image above shows the effects global warming has had on Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p><\/div>\n
The snow on top of this mountain provides water to millions of Africans, and once it is gone these same people will be without access to freshwater.\u00a0 Because of situations like this in Africa and around the globe, it is critical that climate change policies address and stop the cause of this more recent problem: human beings wastefulness.<\/p>\n
Controversy, however, still surrounds whether or not humans are the cause of global warming, which I intend to clear up.\u00a0 Within this debate a scientific consensus has already been reached that the source of carbon is human beings.\u00a0 The question is whether this increase in carbon (by human beings) is definitively causing climate change.<\/p>\n
Science has concluded that without a greenhouse affect the Earth would be well below freezing.\u00a0 For this reason, ice & snow records along with tree rings show that a greenhouse affect and carbon gasses have always been present in the atmosphere. However, within the past century, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, it appears that carbon and greenhouse gas emissions have dramatically risen.\u00a0 For instance, since 1800 the atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen from 280 to over 370 parts per million.\u00a0 Because fossil-fuel utilization rates have been measured, it appears that their rates explain the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n
Moreover in the past it appears that atmospheric carbon dioxide rates were caused by the fact that Earth is naturally highly radioactive.\u00a0 It appears that since the Industrial Revolution, this radioactivity has declined.\u00a0 On account of the sources of this radioactivity, largely volcanoes and the deep ocean, losing their spark then the only logical connection is that fossil fuels are the cause of global warming.\u00a0 This information, along with fossil fuel utilization rates, implicates humans as a significant cause of the recent changes in CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n
The question is what can we do at this point.\u00a0 Scientists have for decades been conducting research and presenting their findings, with limited to no success.\u00a0 This leads me to think a new approach is necessary for action to be taken.<\/p>\n
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This images from the BBC shows the faces of global warming and what will happen if immediate action is not taken.<\/p><\/div>\n
Peter Singer, a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, wrote \u201cFamine, Affluence, and Morality\u201d to describe the moral obligations shared by all humans.\u00a0 He states, \u201cIf it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening\u2026we ought morally to do it,\u201d because he believes that most of the major problems in the world such as poverty and pollution are global issues.\u00a0 Applying this concept to global warming, because scientific evidence has not swayed policy makers to create stringent climate change policies then I would suggest we use images of the people will suffer most to sway policy makers.\u00a0 If we can\u2019t do it for the Earth then lets at least make change for the people who will suffer if immediate action is not soon taken.<\/p>\n