I watched a documentary called “An Inconvenient Sequel” Link:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Sequel:_Truth_to_Power
I wrote an essay about the documentary and what I learned from it.
First, I am going to talk about what is already happening to the world from climate change. The world already has a lot of problems and it’s getting even more severe in recent years. For example, Greenland. Greenland is a large island and the ice there has been melting. Greenland has lost 532 billion tons of ice, and the water that melts from Greenland all goes to the ocean and affects the people living in Greenland and also goes to other countries like for example Miami, Florida USA. Miami, Florida is flooding because of the glaciers melting in Greenland. So it connects from one problem in climate change to another problem. We can also see in a disease expansion for another example. Zika and malaria are diseases near the equator, but now it’s coming up to the north including countries like Japan. Natural disasters are also becoming more powerful and frequent. In 2013 in Tacloban city in the Philippines, there was a very strong typhoon that made 4.41 million climate refugees, and thousands of people died. Because of the water vapor coming up into the air from the soil, when there are storms, it just causes rain bombs and water comes flushing down from the sky, just like what happened in the movie ‘Weathering with you’.
The second point I would like to talk about is global collaboration. Because this isn’t an issue about one country but it is all connected so all of the countries have to collaborate. We started to see good hope in collaboration such as the Paris agreement. The Paris agreement is an agreement that avoids dangerous climate change by limiting the number of fossil fuels that the world uses. All of the countries met up in Paris to talk about climate change. Thankfully, the US is also back again to this agreement after President Biden’s administration and I truly hope this will play as a good international platform to bring this collaboration forward.
The last point that I want to mention is there are also hopeful movements to solve climate change in technology, business sectors. It is becoming very clear that carbon dioxide emission is one of the major reasons for the climate crisis. Burning fuel and fossil fuels for energy produces a lot of carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide that we are emitting right now will stay on earth for 10000 years. There are many companies and countries that are installing renewable energy production such as solar energy, hydro energy, and wind energy.
Not only the country like US or EU, but the second-largest country, China also made their decision for more usage of renewable energy that brings Beijing’s air pollution more moderate.
As a responsible individual, I would like to study more about climate change since it is impacting the world greatly. I would also like to spread awareness and take action.