Opportunities and Applied Possibilities for Positive Social Change on Climate Change

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Climate Change: Opportunities and Applied Possibilities for Positive Social Change on Climate Change

There is no doubt that the global warming and climate change is an important social issue affecting human kind today. As identified in our earlier topic, global warming and climate change have resulted in negative impacts on our environment. Over the last three decades, there have been notable changes in temperature levels and weather patterns. Global warming is caused by increased emission of harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The current changes in climatic patterns are mainly caused by our social activities and practices. These are not limited to our rapid globalization, urbanization and industrialization of the global society (Adger, Arnell & Tompkins, 2005). Since this issue of climate change is a major problem today, different governments and societies have implemented a number of possibilities and opportunities towards positive social changes in order to deal with the menace. There are several incentives and approaches which have been encouraged and promoted to deal with the problem.

It is obvious that climate change results in adverse environmental effects. There are increased efforts and initiatives being promoted by governments and business models to deal with the social challenges towards climate change. To begin with, global policies have been made to deal with this menace. For instance, we have the measure targeting to reduce the level of carbon emissions in order to reduce global warming (Shah, 2011). Different governments around the world are also promoting the use of renewable energy sources such as wind power because it is sustainable. Population control in some countries such as China is playing a huge role to address the social challenge towards climate change. When human population pattern and settlement is controlled, the rate of environmental destruction is significantly reduced thereby addressing all issues related to climate change.

The other opportunity existing today is that we have both underdeveloped and developed nations signing treaties as an effort to curb this menace. The popular Kyoto Protocol was signed in an effort to stabilize or reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. The major challenge is that there are still some nations that have failed to honor the treaty. Other policies being put in place include geo-engineering as a proper approach to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into our atmosphere. Although the social, economic, and political aspects seem not to favor these policy implementations, there is the need to educate the society in order to strategize and come up with the best processes to deal with this menace (Ruddiman, 2005).

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There are also policies put in place to proactively deal with climate change and address the opportunity towards a sustainable world. In Canada for example, there is an Environmental Policy which is aimed at improving the conditions in the country. According to Maslin (2007), Northern Canada is one of the global regions significantly affected by continuous climatic changes. As a result, there are Environmental and Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGOs) such as Greenpeace, WWF-Canada, Sierra Club and Ducks Unlimited that have been working hard enough to address the effects of climatic change. These organizations have managed to address the social challenges affecting ...

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