How to prevent climate change?

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If you don't consider climate change a serious problem that concerns you personally, it is time to change your point of view. The fact is that — not a super villain. Bad guys, as we often see in the movies, come over all at once and crave violence. Even supervillains love to tell the main character what inspired them to bad things. And while the main character listens to the story of a super-villain, he manages to come up with how this villain to defeat. Climate change over all just did not come and tell you too, nothing going. While we dilly dally, gobbling up hamburgers for both cheeks, the situation on the planet getting hotter. And yet, to feel the protagonist of a blockbuster can each of us, if aware of how to prevent the disaster.

What is climate change?

The Climate has varied throughout its history for various reasons. Today, however, Earth's weather is a bit crazy and that we gone to her head. We are more than 7 billion and everyone needs food. We want to live in a comfortable environment, beautifully dressed, to purchase a variety of products — from personal car to cocktail straws and cotton swabs. To ensure that these goods came directly to our house, built a huge industrial enterprise, the smoke from which gently envelops the smog of our cities.

Not surprisingly, nuclear power plants, deforestation for agricultural needs and population growth of the planet . According to recent scientific data, we live in an age of climate crisis. Yes, global warming is happening right here and now. And to make it a little easier to imagine this situation, let us remember a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke "childhood's End": according to the story, landed on the Ground flying saucer, but there is no one came. It is stuck in Earth orbit for many years, and the representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations communicating only with their chosen person.

Cover of the series "childhood's End", shot on the same product A. Clark

Imagine that climate change — this is the flying saucer. It is directly above us and it seems that nothing is happening. However, after 30 years of creature living on it will gradually begin to arrive on Earth, followed invariably follow natural disasters. The good news is that each of us can contribute to the fight against global warming. However, for this we will have to significantly change their way of life.

How to deal with climate change?

So that the average temperature on Earth has risen to two or three degrees Celsius by 2050 (recall that the three degrees — this is the worst scenario), humanity must reduce emissions to zero. It is advisable to do this right now, however, countries such as the UK plan to stop air pollution right by 2050. And the British lads, because countries such as China, though concerned about climate change, but so far only in words. In the debate about the problems caused by global warming, join us.

According to the chief scientist in the field of environmental protection UK, Professor Ian Boyd, people have to reconsider their consumption habits. To change from private cars to bicycles, eat less red meat or even to abandon it, to buy less clothes and items, without which you can easily do. According to scientists, the General public poorly understands the extent of the problem relating to cessation of the emissions to the atmosphere.

City, shrouded in smog.

But — understand how to abandon habitual rate of consumption. According to scientists, the world state needs to launch an extensive educational program to deal with this problem. You will also need a number of measures to ensure that activities that pollute the environment has become unfavorable.

Professor of the Department of biology at the University of St Andrews Ian Boyd in an interview with BBC news said, "Our way of life harms the environment. We love to consume, but the more we consume the more we consume the planet's resources. To consume more we increase these resources or produced, as a consequence, we generate waste. While consumption is constantly increasing".

Needless to say, which has led to excessive consumption and one-time use plastic products? Recently we wrote about the fact that in addition to seabirds and whales, plastic eat even turtles.

Possible drastic changes?

Experts agree that the need to achieve significant technological advances in how we use and reuse materials, but also need to reduce the overall demand for traditional goods. That is, we need to radically change your behavior and change your lifestyle. Each of us needs to realize that the reduction of emission of harmful substances into the atmosphere is impossible if we do not diminish your consumer appetite.

The Impact of climate change is clear and requiresurgent actions from countries around the world. However, some experts did not hide his pessimistic attitude about the future of the planet — too much needs to change in a very short time. What do you think, can our world in the near future to abandon the mass consumption of everything?