As Climate Change Heats Up, The Global Population’s Knowledge Is Being Forcibly Cooled
We learn early on in school that the earth goes through a lot when it comes to climate and environment. We soon learn the effects of our greenhouse-like atmosphere and how that manipulates environments and populations. As history tells us, climate change research has been conducted for centuries. And, finally in the early 1900’s we started to understand what we as humans were doing to these factors. Researchers have been measuring the rising surface temperatures and ocean acidity for years with numerous amounts of breakthroughs. What started out being informative discoveries about our planet have turned into taboo and petty arguments between corporate figures (such as the new administration of the United States) and environmentalists (including various science agencies that are being unfunded), especially in the United States. Taking factuality and accountability is the only way for our society as a whole to come to make a difference and change the damaging future big businesses are creating.
At first, the attitude towards climate change was genuine and respectful. The global consensus was focused on information and curiosity about what was happening to our planet. The BBC states in 1965, “A US President’s Advisory Committee panel warns that the greenhouse effect is a matter of ‘real concern’.” And, in 1975, “US scientist Wallace Broecker puts the term ‘global warming’ into the public domain in the title of a scientific paper.” Today,
those breakthroughs would seem mediocre and controversial to most of the uneducated general public. That is because the world’s temperature is not only changing, but the attitudes as well. A trickle-down thought-wave is happening through persuasions of big business and corrupt politics. Companies influence countries, and in-turn sometimes even controls the countries. They are constantly relying on non-renewable resources/fossils fuels to fund their (outdated) energy needs and their economic needs. Not only are the business practices being done damaging, the extraction processes cause irreplaceable destruction to our environment. Extracting these resources have the risk of causing air and water pollution, damage to public health, wildlife and habitat loss, water use, land use, and global warming emissions. It is not a coincidence that the production and interpretation of climate facts are being eschewed by big businesses and government agencies. According to fortune.com,
“U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website, two agency employees told Reuters, the latest move by the newly minted leadership to erase ex-president Barack Obama’s climate change initiatives. With the new administration taking office in the US, they have completely done away with the past plans on updating energy programs and combatting climate change.”
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