Chapter 12 Reading
Climate Change
Section 1
Rapid growth of world's economy and population threatening the planet's natural resources was the cause of the UN Conference in 1972 on the Human Environment within Stockholm, Sweden. Planetary boundary ideas in the 1900s revolved around the understanding of those boundaries themselves and the different kinds that were predicted within the Limits to Growth book published about the future downfall of the 1920's. It wasn't the limitations that the usage of minerals that the main concern was about, but the affects that it would have ecosystem itself, the biodiversity, and ability the atmosphere has to take in greenhouse gases it's emitting. The problem was not that people were focusing on the environmental effect alone, but the little knowledge that scientists at the moment did not know enough about it as well. Realistically, countries with higher income tend to have the largest green house gas emissions while the less fortunate countries have much lower green house gases, in correlation to their low-income economy. Though the poor countries are emitting less GHG, they are the countries being affected by it the most by the climate change problems it brings about. The second most global crisis after global warming is taking effect on reducing the climate change problem and the little corrective action we actually put to use. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with the European Union (EU), is an organization that has thought up many different ideas based on various perspectives on the solutions for climate change. Some of these ideas include bringing in experts on fossil fuels and importers from all over the globe to find positive ways of using renewable energy.
Section 2
Everything that society had known at the publication date of this book on sustainability was found out by scientists by the 1900's. In the 1980s, Arrhenius had correctly calculated the effects of the doubling of CO2 and recalculated those same effects years later, though his timing was inaccurate. Overall, the seven major problems we contribute to the world are the creations of global crisis, world mobilization to work toward the progress of that crisis, the affect of generations to come, GHG emission, increase climate change crisis, the complexity of climate change solutions, and energy sectors correlation to one of the world's most powerful companies.
Section 3
Mitigation is the means to coming about the reduction of GHGs that are causing global warming. The current goal standing is less than or equal to 2 degreed Celsius above the mean industrial temperature. Adaption is the preparation of safer living causing effective life-styles with climate change. Safeguarding cities from storm surges and the protection of crops is a major form of adaption. Though little, adaption can highly affect the world's environment. Three key steps of "deep decarbonization are energy efficieny, reduction of CO2 emission, and fuel shift from direct use of fossil fuels to energy efficient sources. Zero-carbon geothermal energy powers Iceland, which is used for electricity production and water heating that is distributed throughout the homes and offices of communities. Other places such as Britain maintain power plants with low costs and high productivity rates at about 12% of the world's electrical generation. The indirectness of zero-carbon technologies with the means to reduce carbon emission . More energy efficient forms of reducing the emission on CO2 are described, such as electric vehicle charging points.
Section 1
Rapid growth of world's economy and population threatening the planet's natural resources was the cause of the UN Conference in 1972 on the Human Environment within Stockholm, Sweden. Planetary boundary ideas in the 1900s revolved around the understanding of those boundaries themselves and the different kinds that were predicted within the Limits to Growth book published about the future downfall of the 1920's. It wasn't the limitations that the usage of minerals that the main concern was about, but the affects that it would have ecosystem itself, the biodiversity, and ability the atmosphere has to take in greenhouse gases it's emitting. The problem was not that people were focusing on the environmental effect alone, but the little knowledge that scientists at the moment did not know enough about it as well. Realistically, countries with higher income tend to have the largest green house gas emissions while the less fortunate countries have much lower green house gases, in correlation to their low-income economy. Though the poor countries are emitting less GHG, they are the countries being affected by it the most by the climate change problems it brings about. The second most global crisis after global warming is taking effect on reducing the climate change problem and the little corrective action we actually put to use. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with the European Union (EU), is an organization that has thought up many different ideas based on various perspectives on the solutions for climate change. Some of these ideas include bringing in experts on fossil fuels and importers from all over the globe to find positive ways of using renewable energy.
Section 2
Everything that society had known at the publication date of this book on sustainability was found out by scientists by the 1900's. In the 1980s, Arrhenius had correctly calculated the effects of the doubling of CO2 and recalculated those same effects years later, though his timing was inaccurate. Overall, the seven major problems we contribute to the world are the creations of global crisis, world mobilization to work toward the progress of that crisis, the affect of generations to come, GHG emission, increase climate change crisis, the complexity of climate change solutions, and energy sectors correlation to one of the world's most powerful companies.
Section 3
Mitigation is the means to coming about the reduction of GHGs that are causing global warming. The current goal standing is less than or equal to 2 degreed Celsius above the mean industrial temperature. Adaption is the preparation of safer living causing effective life-styles with climate change. Safeguarding cities from storm surges and the protection of crops is a major form of adaption. Though little, adaption can highly affect the world's environment. Three key steps of "deep decarbonization are energy efficieny, reduction of CO2 emission, and fuel shift from direct use of fossil fuels to energy efficient sources. Zero-carbon geothermal energy powers Iceland, which is used for electricity production and water heating that is distributed throughout the homes and offices of communities. Other places such as Britain maintain power plants with low costs and high productivity rates at about 12% of the world's electrical generation. The indirectness of zero-carbon technologies with the means to reduce carbon emission . More energy efficient forms of reducing the emission on CO2 are described, such as electric vehicle charging points.
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