RACHEL GABBERT
PERSUASIVE ESSAY AND PERFORMER MONOLOGUE
Sarp SAKIPAĞA
CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
Have you ever considered a world without peace? A world without nature. A world with diseases a hopeless world. If we continue climate change these will be real in the future. Actually it ' s happening right now. Diseases are spreading across countries, ice is melting from Antartica and northern parts of the world, hundreds of species go extinct every day and it’ s all because of us humans. Climate change is a serious problem and we should stop it, we must stop it.
Greenhouse gases keep world warm from outer space. But as we keep using fossil fuels and products that causes climate change we create more greenhouse gas. Earth gets warmer and warmer day by day because of greenhouse gases. Last ten years we have recorded the top ten warmest years since we started on 1950s. Earth is getting warmer.
Huge ice parts of Antartica melts because of Earth getting warmer. 400,000,000 tons of ice melt every year. When these ice melt sea level of world rises and there would be enormous floods enough to get many cities that we live in. If you are not near to a sea don ' t be happy because of climate change there won ' t be enough water in if you ' re not near to a sea. And these floods are not the only disasters. For example according to the website A student’ s guide to climate change“ One of the effect of climate change is heat waves and hurricanes.” Sea level had risen 17 cm in the last century. Our sea level are rising because of climate change.
The products we use that causes greenhouse gases is bigger than we think. Furniture like fridge or washing machines creates climate change too. We use fossil fuels while creating electricity and fossil fuels creates huge amounts of carbon dioxide that is one of greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide comes from cars, trucks, ships, planes etc. while we are burning fossil fuels to make them move. We are using so much products that causes climate change.
But the biggest cause of climate change is meat consumption. Meat comes from farm animals that we raised for food animal agriculture. These farm animals use % 45 of our land and conserves ⅓ of our fresh water. To make meat out of those animals we use tons of water, big areas and while making the meat, animals cause waste and methane. Because of these wastes comes from farm animals dead zones in oceans are created to put the waste. And these wastes cause methane one of the greenhouse gases. For example according to a video from YouTube named Fight Climate Change, Eat Less Meat“ Each cow emits 65 gallons of methane every day.” Transportation of these animals causes greenhouse gases too. We should stop eating this much meat to stop climate change.
What can we do? We can stop it. We can go to near places with bike. We can use electrical cars. We can get our electricity from renewable energy sources like solar panels, wind and sea wave energy. We can use less products that causes climate change or we can use alternative ways to make our daily jobs without them. We can prefer eating vegetables more than meat. If we want to these things we must stop some of our daily habits. Climate change is a serious problem that we must stop. It ' s in our hands to save our planet or continue killing it.
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