Climate Crisis and Clean Energy
Presently we all are living in a technologized and globalized world with lots of inventions and advancements in different fields. This tends to realize that we have come across development which is a positive view point. At the mean time negative externalities are also creating through this development process. Climate crisis is one of such serious issue that the whole world is facing and struggling to provide solutions for this problem. According to the “Cause and Effect” concept of Lord Buddha, the climate crisis is the effect where the cause is the human activities which tended to create this crisis.
Climate crisis refers to the global warming, climate changes and their effects. Global warming is occurred by the long term heating of the earth’s climate system or rising of the earth’s temperature as a result of the human activities such as fossil fuel combustion, nitric acid production, changes in natural greenhouse gas, release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), use of commercial and organic fertilizers, biomass burning, deforestation etc. The air pollutants and greenhouse gases released through this human activities get collected in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation and they last for years in the atmosphere and trap the heat and make the earth hotter. When the earth gets hotter, it causes for melting of glaciers, rising of sea levels leading to floods, driving plants and animal species to extinction and rising of air pollution.
It has been recorded that the years 2016 and 2020 were the warmest years and the earth’s average surface temperature has increased by about 2.12 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century due to the increased carbon dioxide emissions and other human activities. Also the people on earth have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration by 47% since the industrial revolution commenced (Global Climate change).
Climate change refers to the long term change in the average weather patterns of the earth. Global warming is one of the key reason for the climate changes. If this climate change continues, the people on earth will have to face for lots of problems. The temperature will continue to rise, frost free season will be lengthen, changes in precipitation patterns, more droughts and heat waves, hurricanes will be more stronger and enormous and it is expected that the sea level will be risen by 1 to 8 feet by 2100.
The people should be keen on the increment of the utilization of clean energy in order to minimize climate crisis because there is a linkage between climate crisis and clean energy. Clean energy means the energy produced from renewable sources it doesn’t pollute the environment when utilized and it doesn’t release greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. It means clean energy helps to minimize global warming, climate changes and finally tends to minimize the climate crisis. Apart from that, clean energy helps to preserve the natural resources, to reduce the risk of natural disasters and to minimize the air pollution. The wind power, hydro power, solar powered energy generation are some of the examples for clean energy.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) includes seventeen goals implemented in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly which are to be achieved by 2030. Among those seventeen goals, there are two goals namely “Affordable and clean energy” and “Climate action” which are implemented with the intention of ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy to all and for taking urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts. If all the countries in the world work with the aim of achieving these goals, this climate crisis issue can be minimized and the usage of clean energy can be enhanced (The 17 goals).
Minimizing this climate crisis is not only a responsibility of the leaders or government of the countries but also an important responsibility of each and every individual living on the earth. We all get lots of benefits from the nature but in return for that we have done nothing for the environment. We all owe a huge debt of gratitude for the benefits that we gained from the nature and we are liable to protect our environment. Therefore let us all work together to protect our globe by considering it as a prime duty of all of us.
References
Global Climate change. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
The 17 goals. (n.d.). Sustainable development. Retrieved from sdgs.un.org
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