The decrease in the performance of the agricultural sector will cause critical food shortages, and for millions of people a loss of income, severely affecting the developing countries. The migration from developing countries, which will place a huge burden on the social network and economy of the developed ones.
Alongside the disasters mentioned above, we shouldn’t be neglegent to prepare for dealing with the inevitable social changes that climate change brings along.
The extreme effects of altered sea and air currents are severely threatening the agricultural sector in all parts of the world, with droughts, floods, hail, acid rain, extreme storms, forests and bushfires.
CLIMATE CATASTROPHY IS
INEVITABLE, BUT WE CAN SLOW IT DOWN AND PREPARE FOR WHAT COMES
The physics
It can be interesting to think of our planet as a bubble in space. Energy produced in this bubble results in heat production. The majority of the heat generated is stuck inside and start to build up. Climate change esentially is the long term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns on Earth. It can be a natural phenomenon, such as variations in the solar cycle. The problem started when climate changed rapidly and unnaturally, due to the escalating population and the wasteful lifestye of mankind. Since the 1800s, human activities have been the main cause of climate change, dominantly due to burning fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal.
As a consequence of the second industrial revolution, the effects of this phenomenon notably accelereted. Imagine how many cars pour greenhouse gases each minute of the day and how many fossil power plants are running non-stop to provide the increased quantity of power needed! Remember
the many thermonuclear experiments conducted during the last century!
The exponential increase in temperature has became inevitable.
But what exactly happens when the temperature is being constantly increased in our supposed bubble?
With the rising heat, huge amounts of melting polar ice end up in the oceans, causing the temperature, pH, and flow of the water to change. The hotter the athmosphere, the faster the ice melts. After entering the ocean, it starts to cool down the water and the air, resulting in an even faster flow of water and air, creating more frequent and stronger storms. These changes will drastically reduce fish stocks over the next 10 years, endangering the livelihood of people around the globe and the food supply of hundreds of millions. The decrease in the mass of the polar ice may result in unpredictable plate tectonic behavior. Therefore more frequent and stronger earthquakes are expected along fault lines.
Increasing water scarcity will be a major concern, even in developed countries.
By 2050, rising sea levels will pose an serious threat to coastal cities and their surroundings.
