Rising Temperatures Threatens Life on Earth

Global warming refers to a steady rise in the earth temperature. Life on earth thrives on a temperature of between 30-45 degrees. A rise in the temperature therefore threatens the life on the planet and destabilizes several features that sustain the same. Since 1971, the temperature has risen steadily owing to fraudulent utilization of resources on earth leading to the emission of poisonous gases. The ecology has a mechanism of sustaining the life within it; the earth has an atmosphere that maintains the temperature among other fundamental features of the planet that sustains life (Schlossberg, 55). The ozone layer that encloses the planet creates a greenhouse effect capable of sustaining both the temperature and composition of air thereby ensuring that the water remains in a liquid state. Global warming is a result on careless human activities that have consequently destroyed environment and has severe ramifications most of which threaten the existence of life in the planet as portrayed in the discussion below.

Among the factors that have contributed to global warming is environmental degradation, humans interact with their environment carelessly thus resulting in the massive loss of forest cover among other vital features of the earth. Trees are vital aspects of the planet; they have a mechanism of maintaining the carbon level on earth thereby stabilizing the global temperature. However, increased human activity and encroachment into the forests have resulted in the loss of large forest covers. Humans have successfully reduced the sizes of the great equatorial forests in both Brazil and central Africa among other areas. Additionally, such calamities as forest fires have compounded the problem resulting in loss of huge forest c...

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...ind of products they buy and the use of electrical devices. However, global warming is major caused by the amount of heat released to the atmosphere which as a result breaks the ozone layer. Global warming has had negative effects on the nature of the earth and everything in it. It has led to death of plants and animals, varying climatic changes, the rising and falling of the levels of water in the oceans, lack of rain in various areas especially the semi-arid regions, drought and famine in a larger part of Africa and other continents and has destabilized the ecology system. To solve the issue of global warming, deforestation must be stopped, people should implement the use of energy and products that can be recycled, use vehicles that save on energy and emit less gases and creating awareness on the effects of global warming and how it can be reduced in the society.