Update: A Worsening Crisis

As you’re starting to read this article, world leaders are tackling a problem that could affect us all. Yes, and that is climate change.

For decades now, climate change has become a worsening problem. We are emitting hundreds of tons of greenhouse gasses every minute and constantly polluting the environment all around us. And that is why there’s the Conference of the Parties, COP, or the United Nations Climate Conference, which calls on world leaders to take action against this crisis. This year is the 26th climate conference. It started on Oct 31st, held in Glasgow in the UK.

We are emitting much greenhouse gas from fossil fuel burning, deforestation, electricity production, etc. As Earth warms, ice starts melting around the poles, making sea levels rise, increasing flooding. So how do we prevent all this? It’s not like one individual can achieve that much.

That is why world leaders are discussing and agreeing to various treaties. One example is the Paris Climate Accords, which focus on limiting temperature rises, adopted by 196 parties at COP 21. Each of these agreements is a step toward the solution of climate change, net-zero emissions. That means that we have to cut most of our emissions. Of course, there have been many of these efforts before. But we need to try harder, to have more crucial countries, countries that rely on the mentioned fossil fuel burning and other things like deforestation, to agree.

So how urgent is this crisis? After all, you can’t feel the warming day by day. However, this crisis is looming just above our heads. Think of it in another way. In the depths of the oceans, a terrifying thing lurks, waiting to attack shores. It’s no monster, but a wave, a tsunami, caused by underwater earthquakes. Though it seems harmless at first, as it reaches land, it grows in size, bringing devastation, uprooting trees, crushing buildings and cars, swallowing anything in its path.

It may seem like natural disasters are just unstoppable, but there’s always a solution. We can monitor earthquakes and take extra precautions by building floodwalls. It’s the same with climate change. When it reaches the shore, it’s already too late. Scientists and experts predict that if we don’t take action by 2050, the world could get dangerously hot. The temperature would mean that many crops will be unable to grow. And the sea level would have risen slightly and continued to rise. Many of the world’s coral reefs housing hundreds of species of undersea creatures could get wiped out. Places like Thailand, where there is much rainfall per year, could suffer water shortages. So it’s just unbelievable what effects climate change could have on the globe in the next few decades to come.

Please share this article, let everyone know about how significant climate change is. We should take action together, as humanity has always done through many hard times. Sometimes, maybe just that small part you’re participating in could change the course of history. That’s the end of this production from the New News Newsminute. Thank you, and tune in next time for more. Oh, right, do you know another reason the climate change conference is called COP? Because of climate cops!