Climate Change Essay

Climate change and the loss heritage

Antarctic’s ice melt and accelerating sea level rise, the growing number of large wildfires, intense heat wave shocks, severe drought and blizzards, disrupted and decreased food supply, and extreme storm events are increasing to happen in many areas world wide and these are just some of the consequences of global warming. The fossil fuel we burn for energy coal, natural gas, and oil plus the loss of forests due to disforestation, in the southern hemisphere are all contributors for climate change. In the past three decades, every single year was warmer then the previous year and the warmest 12 years were recorded since 1998. We are overloading our atmosphere with carbon dioxide and trapping the heat and recently, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere reached 400 pmm. Not just environmental issues are rising due to carbon dioxide increase but more and miscellaneous issues are appearing as climate change becomes more severe. For example, regional models and local analyses agree that Mongolia has become noticeably warmer and the climate change effect is damaging their millennial of historic nomadic lifestyle and even came to the peek of extinction. The Mongolian nomadic pastoralists became highly vulnerable to many an unusual climate impacts and extreme temperature fluctuation that have led to inadequate pasture land and loss of enormous number of livestock, often faces hostile environmental conditions that led o entrenched pastoral poverty. This essay focuses on how the climate change impacts the qualitative and quantitative value of indigenous culture and nomadic life style, and how the economy struggles in the magnitudes of massive migration of nomads to urban area while it fails to value t...

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...estions of resilience and capacity of the government value of heritage and people who are dedicated in preserving it.

As to the ambition of monetizing the entire range of impacts caused by climate change, and adding app all the consequences unto numbers profundity tells how people have lost the sense towards ecological quality and cultural heritages unless it is converted into fictional number values. As mentioned in Frank Ackerman’s article, our moral obligation to protect the lives and livelihoods of constituents and our future generations is a matter of numerical numbers, and so it looses all the meaning because when economy starts working efficient and starts filling out the gaps of the monetary values, all will start seem normal but the truth is any estimate of cost and profit is not fixing the main overarching environmental and cultural damages.