How Will Global Warming Affect Us?

If we are to believe that global warming is a reality, then how will it affect us all in the years to come and what can we do about it?

Rising sea levels would cause severe flooding which would displace thousands of people and the country’s agricultural system would be badly affected. Coastal flooding would affect animals and plants and of course fresh water supplies.

Many islands would disappear. Coral reefs would be submerged subjecting the local population to stronger storm surges.

Cities would require extensive infrastructure developments to ensure the supply of utilities such as power, communication, transportation and most importantly fresh water. Attempts would have to be made to reduce the impact of further flooding.

So it would seem that the lifestyle we have become accustomed to will have to be adjusted if we are to reduce the impact of these catastrophic events.

CO2 emissions will have to be reduced. Building companies must ensure all homes are more efficient in their use of electricity and gas, and their insulation is of the highest standard to avoid gas emissions entering the atmosphere.

Businesses will probably be asked to pay an addition tax on their energy use. Electricity companies may have to guarantee to supply 10% of their electricity from renewable sources.

Low carbon building programs will be introduced to provide grants towards installing microgeneration technologies.

If the planet is undergoing this dramatic change in it’s atmosphere it’s obviously going to affect what and how we eat, how we cope with increased weather changes and how we travel around the world.

It’s sensible to assume there is justification for much of the information we have been given with regard to the reasons behind the change in our weather patterns. Therefore it seems reasonable to also assume that we should change things in our lives to try to prevent global warming reaching disastrous proportions.

By buying ecologically friendly equipment, by stopping the destruction of our rainforests and helping the people in those areas to sustain themselves in ways other than selling their habitat, we’re going to cut back the dangerous emissions and hopefully control the so-called greenhouse effect.

There is still a great deal of controversy over the subject of global warming, with both sides seeming to present a reasonable case. In the end we are relying upon the scientists who claim the planet is in crisis, and those who claim it is all so much nonsense. Does anyone really know?

Whoever we choose to believe, it makes sense to try and cut back on some of the poisonous gases we’re emitting into the atmosphere if only for the sake of our health and that of our children. Whether global warming is a reality or not, we are responsible for our planet and by trying to keep it as clean and disease free as possible we must surely also be helping to prevent global disasters.

It’s therefore up to us to ensure the leading politicians of the world face up to this fact and attempt to make it a cleaner, healthier environment for us all.

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