climate change as a global challenge
Contemporarily if anyone were to recount the global challenges, climate change would be on the top of the list. The distinctive thing about climate change that it is not a partial inflicting epidemic. When the problem of climate change hits, it tends to affect almost the whole globe. Even though some places are hit more than others, no place can claim to have been isolated from the global temperatures problem. Another difference is that when the issues of climate change hit, it affects different countries and regions in varying modes. The impacts that will be stomached by one country tend to be different from the ones on another land, but the unification line is that they are all detrimental. Hence no community can boast of privilege when it comes to climate change. The only thing that differs is the magnitude of being hit. Some regions have a grace period of survival, while others do not have even time for disaster preparedness. Besides being a challenge, climate change has brought nations together in the endeavor of trying to fight the mammoth in the globe. A good example of such coming together to solve it is the G20 summit, where world leaders made climate deals. Climate change thus is a global challenge not for a few regions just, but one worth calling for global unification if it is to be managed.
The period of the Industrial Revolution can be traced back to the 19th century, the first, but industrialization has been rising to even higher ranks in the 21st century. Much of what people recognize about industrialization is the merit factors where a lot of industries have been growing to the advantage of the rising population. But there is the overlooked side of climatic challenges that they usher to the environment, water, and the air. There are release wastages that are released to the water putting the lives of individuals at higher risks. And specifically, in this case, there are releases in the air, including dangerous and toxic chemicals (Lin et al., 2015). With numerous industries today using fuels and other waste emitting sources of energy, the environment cannot be spared a huge magnitude of destruction. Today climates are rising in different parts of the world because the emitting of gasses has destroyed the O-zone layer, which is supposed to protect humanity from the dangers that they are being posed to. Humankind is now left to the mercies of the sun in a lot of regions because there is no layer to protect them anymore. And if the challenges that people are facing today are not enough to give a warning, then the next generation will find a world in an even worse state.
Due to the prevalent changes in climatic conditions, there is no doubt that the world is at risk. For communities that heavily depend on agriculture for sustenance, they are not now guaranteed of the tomorrows. In fact, no one is guaranteed because even though there are people who do not depend on agriculture to make a living, they still use the commodities that come from agriculture to survive (Kurukulasuriya & Rosenthal, 2013). Humankind, therefore, might get extinct if the prevailing conditions continue to go on. There will be no food in the next centuries if the changes in climate are meant to go on. The bigger problem is that no one is caring for what happens today. People are still trying to use every means to get themselves rich. It does not matter the path that they are going to use to get to the top of economic classes, as far as they get there, nothing else is solid. Wealth is the ultimate goal in the generation that the world is at.
There are questions that are left unanswered by the greedy generation that sees nothing further than the money can go. One of the questions is, what is wealth without health? Secondly, how long money can sustain a person if there is no place to buy food? And lastly, what type of a world will our grandchildren fin? Wealth is indeed being immersed, but with the emission, the climate is changing for worse. As a result, people are being affected by the lack of food and dangerous rays. There are a lot of cancers in the world that has come from direct exposure to harmful sun rays (Cristofanilli & Fortina, 2013). Malnutrition is also hitting different regions because of the lack of a balanced diet. Foods are not being produced because the temperature conditions are not favorable.
In conclusion, climate change is hitting the world hugely today. Different regions and countries have been hit differently, but that does not erase the fact that the consequences are evenly distributed. The impact that hits one area will affect the other differently. And that is why there is no time to look at the situation get beyond management; nations are coming together to put measures on regulations. There is life beyond wealth, which is what the perpetrators need to grasp if the road to heal the wound of climate change is to heal.