For this course, you will be required to write a 5-7 page Term paper in which you will detail a proposed response to climate change. Please focus on one particular topic pertaining to climate change. For instance, focusing on the melting of polar ice sheets, the dwindling GBR, intensity in hurricane systems, more frequent El Nino movements, etc…
You will explain in detail:
- Anthropogenic climate change and how we have altered the climate
- Provide a detailed analysis of how the climate has shifted
- A proposed response to the climate shifts
Your paper also needs to have the following:
- Works cited/bibliography page at the end of the paper
- A map to the region you are writing about
- Peer-Reviewed Academic Sources
Sabreen Awad
Geol. 106
March. 28, 2021
The growth of industries is a threat to climate change. As the human population continues
to grow, more factories are constructed to enhance sustainability. This increase in the number of
industrial activities leads to more burning of fossil fuels (Park, 2015). Based on the
Anthropogenic climate change theory, the rates at which climate changes currently are alarming.
It is very fast and can lead to more adverse consequences. Humans are destroying the planet,
thus, affecting all that lives. Billions of tons of gases are emitted into the atmosphere each day,
tons of petroleum products disposed into the sea, and solid matter filled in the lands. As income
rates rise, people gain the ability to possess cars and start their production plants. These
adversely affect nature. Automobiles contribute a lot to pollution in urban areas, making the air
unconducive. Global warming is taking place very fast as the ozone layer is getting depleted.
There is a need to come up with the most effective strategies to save the planet.
Several solutions are at exposure. However, the best proposal entails regulating and
controlling industrialization. This means that all activities that industries engage in should be
monitored and controlled to make sure that they do not contribute to pollution. Policies must be
formulated to oversee industrialization (Rowell & Van Zeben, 2021). Adverse climate shifts take
place as a result of the activities of man (industrial pollution). If these are controlled, the rates of
pollution will go down, and the shifts will not be rapid. For the last three decades, the rate at
which climate shift is taking place is worrying. The industrial revolution plays a significant role
in these changes (Stephenson, 2018).
References
Park, J. (2015). Climate Change and Capitalism. Consilience, (14), 189-206. Retrieved March
29, 2021, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/26188749
Rowell, A., & Van Zeben, J. (2021). Climate Change. In A Guide to U.S. Environmental Law
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191-232).
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Stephenson, M. H. (2018). Energy and climate change: An introduction to geological
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