想象一下小北极熊，其母亲被水包围。只有一小块冰块在他们脚下漂流。冰慢慢地分开了。小北极熊漂移了，耸了耸肩。发抖并用水浸湿，卷曲起来。随着小冰山慢慢越来越小，母亲越来越近。几英里附近没有冰。母亲需要找到食物，但是她已经疲惫了，试图让她的孩子活着。 2016年12月，二十五个冰川减少到十五个，为什么会这样呢？重视气候变化和全球变暖，人类需要采取行动，因为它改变了自然，动物和人类。气候变化影响人类的健康，可以使动物濒临灭绝或灭绝。虽然放缓全球变暖的进程缓慢，可能是一项艰巨的任务，但人们还需要采取行动以免为时过晚。
我们的环境是我们生活的重要组成部分。大多数人甚至不知道导致气候变化是人类。由于我们的行动，动物和所有的自然都受到负面影响。根据“气候变化的影响”，“地球的南北四极对于调节地球的气候至关重要”。两极都特别容易受到全球变暖的影响，影响整个地区或整个地球。融化的冰川极大地影响着我们世界的淡水生态系统。海洋和河流的水位正在上升，也吸收了二氧化碳气体，以防止其流向大气层。全球变暖增加了“二氧化碳浓度使海洋更酸性”。海洋中的海洋生物可能灭绝或被破坏。植物可以随着温度和碳水平急剧变化而死亡，而其他生物需要在海洋，湖泊和河流中适应和生存。 “温暖的空气可以保持较高的含水量”，这意味着随着水位的不平衡，干旱，极端天气模式和洪水可能发生。淡水生态系统被“排水，疏浚，拦水，污染和开采”所制定，这些都是人类的行为。这些行动进一步加强了天气的负面影响。天气模式影响某些地区的植物或自然物种。根据气候变化的影响，雪豹，犀牛，大象，北极熊和更多的动物也受到影响，“气候变化发生得太快，许多物种都适应”。动物的领土一直在萎缩，由于海上升水平或融化的冰川，让动物搜寻新的地区住房或可能灭绝。一些动物依靠气候变化影响的天气模式。 “敏感的珊瑚和藻类”是“从氧气中饿死”的。这意味着珊瑚可以漂白或可能灭绝。动物依赖珊瑚和藻类食物，栖息和隐藏于捕食者身上。这些都是由于动物受到的气候变化而造成的后果。
此外，有些人认为动物是唯一受影响的人，但人类也受到影响。人类并没有意识到他们正在做的一切都在摧毁自己。根据气候变化的影响，一项研究是由于气候变化导致的极端天气死亡人数已经增加了多年。建筑物和城镇的损坏每年需要数十亿美元来替代用品和建筑物。极端事件的准备也增加了成本。在洪水或其他极端事件发生后的许多地区，人们纷纷涌入新的土地进行定居和紧急关注。根据全球变暖影响，由于“极热，灾害，疾病，空气质量，空气中的二氧化碳”等因素，人们的健康也受到影响。我们生产的危险化学品会破坏大气中的臭氧层，保护我们免受有害的阳光。阳光中有害元素会引起热浪和干旱。人类的呼吸和心血管功能衰竭都是空气污染的结果，也是引起哮喘或过敏等症状。根据气候变化的影响，“内部温度控制的丧失可能导致一系列疾病”。增加温室气体可引起热中风，热痉挛，热耗竭和高热。在极端寒冷中，会发生冻伤和体温过低。已经经历气候变化的地区的强度增加，导致更危险的疾病和健康影响。极端天气的突然变化不允许人们适应。心理上，气候变化引起焦虑，压力，抑郁和自杀。社会关系紧张，压力障碍加剧，侵略，暴力或犯罪行为。这些都是我们不小心采取行动的后果。
另一方面，减缓气候变化需要无数的时间和手段。人们需要现在采取行动，而无力解决它。根据国家地理杂志，如果我们不顾一切地留下这个问题，即使我们结束气候变化，改变的事情也许会停留。当北极冰川融化时，他们再也不会突然出现。如果冰川消失，生活在北极的动物如海象，北极熊和海豹都不能永远游动。不仅在北极，还有其他动物因温度变化而失去家园，不能适应。除非我们开始放缓气候变化，否则环境的一个行动，如融化多年冻土，可能导致一系列事件，使气候变化更加致命。多年冻土“释放二氧化碳和更有效的甲烷”。多年冻土是冰冷的，冰冻的地面已经困了碳数千年。这个过程更加恶化气候变化。其他人说这只是一个问题，我们可以随时修复，永冻层只是一个问题。气候变化还有很多其他问题。水滴降低，濒危动物，灭绝动物，枯萎自然。
因此，所有这些问题都是从人们开始的，所以人类是解决这个问题的。基本上，人们需要停止或至少减缓全球变暖对地球的利益。全球变暖以许多不同的方式影响世界，例如造成动物灭绝并影响人类本身。人们可以很轻松地帮助环境，拯救许多生物。人们可以采取的行动是针对气候变化，在家里节约能源，停止使用空调，甚至不要浪费食物的东西。全球变暖是一个严重的问题，人们现在需要采取行动，否则太晚了！
Imagine a polar bear kit and its mother surrounded by water. Only a tiny piece of ice was drifting under their feet. The ice was slowly breaking apart. The kit drifts away, squeaking with terror. Shivering and drenched with water, the kit curled up. The mother edges closer as the tiny iceberg was slowly getting smaller and smaller. No ice was near them for miles. The mother needed to find food, but she was already exhausted, trying to keep her kit alive. One hundred and fifty glaciers have been reduced to twenty five in the December of 2016. Why is this happening? Climate change and global warming need to be taken seriously and humans need to act now because it changes nature, animals, and humans. Climate change affects human health and can make animals endangered or extinct. Although the process of slowing down global warming is slow and can be an arduous task, people still need to take action before it’s too late.
Our environment is a big part of our lives. Most people aren’t even aware that humans are the ones that are causing climate change. Thanks to our actions, animals and all nature are being affected negatively. According to The Effects of Climate Change, “Earth’s north and south extremities are crucial for regulating our planet’s climate”. The poles, especially, are vulnerable to global warming and the impacts of it can affect an entire region or the entire globe altogether. Melting glaciers greatly impact our world’s freshwater ecosystems. Ocean and river water levels are rising, which are also absorbing carbon dioxide gas to prevent it from reaching toward the atmosphere. Global warming has increased “carbon dioxide concentration which make oceans more acidic”. Sea life in the ocean could go extinct or be damaged. Plants could die as temperatures and carbon levels change drastically while other organisms need to adapt and survive in oceans, lakes, and rivers. “Warmer air can hold a higher water content,” which means as water levels become unbalanced, droughts, extreme weather patterns, and flooding can occur. Freshwater ecosystems are contrived by “drainage, dredging, damming, pollution, and extraction,” which are all acts of human beings. These actions furthermore strengthens the negative impacts of weather. The weather patterns affect plant or nature species in certain regions. According to The Effects of Climate Change, snow leopards, rhinos, elephants, polar bears, and many more animals are also being affected and “climate change is happening too quickly for many species to adapt.” Animal’s territories have been shrinking due to rising sea levels or melting glaciers, leaving animals to search new areas to shelter or possibly going extinct. Some animals depend on weather patterns, which are affected by climate change. The “sensitive coral and algae” are “starved from oxygen”. This means that coral can bleach or possibly become extinct. Animals depend on coral and algae for food, shelter, and to hide from predators. These are all the consequences due to climate change that is animals are affected by.
Furthermore, some think animals are the only ones affected, but humans are being affected too. Humans don’t realize that everything they are doing are destroying themselves as well. According to The Impacts of Climate change, a study had been about the amount of deaths from extreme weather that had risen over years, due to climate change. Damage to buildings and towns need billions of dollars to replace supplies and structures each year. The preparation of the extreme event also add on the cost. In many regions after flooding or other extreme events, it sends people swarming for new land to settle in and emergency attention. According to Global Warming Affects, people's health are also affected due to “extreme heat, disasters, diseases, air quality, and carbon dioxide amounts in the air”. The dangerous chemicals that we produce break the atmosphere’s ozone layer that protects us from harmful sunlight. Harmful elements in sunlight causes heat waves and droughts. Human’s respiratory and cardiovascular failures are all results of air pollution, also causing conditions like asthma or allergies. According to Impacts of Climate Change, “Loss of internal temperature control can result in a cascade of illnesses.” Increasing greenhouse gases can cause heat strokes, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and hyperthermia. In extreme cold, frostbite and hypothermia can occur. Areas that are already experiencing climate changes have increased intensity, causing more dangerous diseases and health effects. Abrupt changes in extreme weather do not allow people to adapt if they could. Mentally, climate changes cause anxiety, stress, depression, and suicidality. Social relationships can strain, stress disorders can strengthen, and aggression, violence, or crimes can be performed. These are all consequences of our careless actions that we are committing too.
On the other hand, to slow down climate change comes with a price and a myriad of time and tactics. People need to act now while it is within out power to fix it. According to National Geographic, if we leave this problem carelessly, things that changed might stay, even if we end climate change. When arctic glaciers melt, they never just suddenly appear with a snap again. Animals that live in the arctic such as walruses, polar bears, and seals can’t swim forever if the glaciers fade away. Not just in the arctic, but other animals are losing their homes due to temperature changes that they can’t adapt to. Unless we start slowing climate change, one action of the environment, such as the melting permafrost, it can lead to a chain of events, making climate change even more deadly. Permafrost “releases carbon dioxide and more potent methane”. Permafrost is icy, frozen ground that has trapped carbon for thousands of years. This process worsens climate change even more. Others say that it’s just a problem that we can fix anytime, permafrost is only one problem. There are many other problems about climate change. Water ph levels lowering, endangered animals, extinct animals, and withering nature.
Therefore, all of these problems had started with people, so humans are the ones to fix it. Essentially, people need to stop or at least slow down global warming for the good of the planet. Global warming affects the world in many different ways, such as causing animal extinctions and affecting humanity itself. One could easily do much to help the environment, saving many organisms. Actions people can take are speaking up against climate change, saving energy at home, stop using air conditioning, or even something as easy as not wasting food. Global warming is a serious problem, and people need to take action now before it's too late!
- Rumi Liao
