Climate change is affecting everyone and everything on Earth. With the little effort most people have, our world will become uninhabitable by 2050 according to NASA.
Since the early 1980’s, people have excessively continued to use natural resources for the worse of endangering the environment: burning fossil fuels, creating greenhouse gasses such as CO2, over hunting animals and decreasing the greenery “population”.
“We must look at the reasons people are not acting in order to understand how to get people to act,” according to Janet Swim, chair of the American Psychological Association. Humans don’t contribute much to helping the planet for a physiological reason of overall laziness determined by the task force of the American Psychological Association.. Helping with the climate crisis can be expensive, but does not explain the lack of help and commitment.
In retrospect, people and most living things don’t like change. If one possible aspect of our lives changes, the rest becomes out of place. The first thing that would go is our health; with the toxicity that’s become our daily routine, from walking in heavy machinery areas to simply swimming in an intoxicated local pond, our physical health is deteriorating. This leads to our mental and emotional health declining, as we continue to live in such circumstances. Any health that’s involved with the human body is essential and important to us.
Humans are not the only ones being affected. All the plants that surround us, the animals we care for, and the creatures that run free are impacted by our actions too. The animals living out in the wild don’t have many of their resources anymore. With the plant life dying off because of polluted air, rain, groundwater and strained sunshine, the food that might be used for the animals is gone. The environments for critters are being destroyed. They have no homes and die off. With less animals at our disposal, hunting rates have changed and the natural effect and benefit of animals, such as completing an ecosystem, is wearing off.
Most of this was and still is preventable. As fossil fuels power most homes, workplaces, and modes of transportation, there are many other resources that could have been used in place such as solar, wind, or water powered sources. As Krishna AchutaRao, professor at the Indian Institute of Technology said, “The impacts are frighteningly more impactful than I – and many climate scientists I know – expected.” Much is at stake between animals, humans, and ecosystems if the continuation of the use of natural resources for the worse.
