Climate Change And Environmental Threats

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This paper examines the factors that led to the climate change and environmental threat particularly air pollution and also identifies the roles of the Chinese government in resolving the environmental crisis. Every single day, globalization is keeping moving forward and makes human unpredictable what will happen in the future include human security. As in the case of climate change, as the same thing occurred to human security threats because they related each other. The rapid in industrialization, the gradually growth of economics and the globalization in China contributing to the factors of environmental crisis and climate change to their society. Consequently, these transformations gave the negative impact on human security which is in economically, domestically, agriculturally and the most important thing is the health of human. Therefore, those issues will be challenges to the policy makers of the Chinese government to identify the suitable policy to implement and also find a way to confront these issues as a responds to the resolving the environmental crisis and climate change.

FACTORS CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) is the major causes of climate change in China. These gases emitted from the “transportation, energy development and mining plans and projects” (He, 2013). The implication of greenhouse is a natural atmospheric process which is emerges due to the highest population in China, dependent on coal and inefficient planed urbanization which is contributed to the greenhouse gases such as “Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), suphurhexafluouride (SF6), hydrofluourocarbon (HFC) and perfluourocarbon (PFC)” (Mohajan, 2014, p. 191). The temperature in atmosphere space...

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