Global warming is no longer a future threat but an actual nightmarish reality. The easiest way to understand this phenomenon is that the earth’s surface temperature rises because of an increase in greenhouse gases from the usage of fossil fuels. This, in turn, results in melting glaciers, famine, unprecedented natural disasters, and an imbalance in our ecological system, leading to the loss of habitats and the endangerment of different species.
The effects of global warming are resounding and ravaging. With the recent changes in weather, and natural disasters occurring all across the globe, even causing devastation in advanced and developed countries like the USA, China, South Korea, Japan, and France, the world can no longer wear the blindfold and claim climate change is a future occurrence. The world we live in today is deteriorating pretty quickly, and even countries that don’t contribute to the major world pollution index are most affected by climate change and global warming. This is a crisis that can no longer be avoided or deflected.
Industrialization, rapid deforestation, usage of pesticides, burning of fossil fuels, and other damaging practices need to be halted and organic. On the other hand, renewable energy and reusable resources need to be used to curb this ongoing crisis. While global warming is not the same as climate change, climate change is the major factor that contributes to it. The reason it is termed a crisis is that when there is a disbalance in our ecosystem, it automatically puts a certain section of living beings under the threat of extinction, for the theory of survival of the fittest to test, as those able to adapt to the ever-changing climate will survive; others will go into extinction.
To avert this crisis, measures need to be undertaken as this is not a problem for certain countries or nations. It’s a universal problem, as life forms before human beings have gone into extinction and entire life forms were wiped out. Defossilization, decarbonization and going green, planting trillion trees, stopping deforestation, and levying heavy taxes and penalties on industries are some effective ways of averting this crisis.
If one needs in-depth knowledge regarding this crisis and how to avert it as well as understand the vision required to make the world implement the go-green wave or organic and sustainable usage of energy resources, ‘The New Earth Manifesto: A New Operating System and a Radical Paradigm Shift’ by Amar Kapoor M.D. is quite informative as well as an interesting read, where the author illustrates the issue of climate change, as well as how, global warming is not just a major crisis but the crisis! He discusses in detail what is at stake and why the planet and humanity need saving. The book outlines the need for a proper protocol with systemic changes to face this crisis head-on instead of simply using the age-old methods for disaster and crisis management.
