Climate Change: Irreparable Damage or Potential for Recovery?

Climate change has damaged the planet beyond repair. It is too late to save it from complete destruction. To what extend do you agree or disagree with this statement? Give reasons for your answer by outlining the evidence for/against.

Before the ‘Industrial Revolution’, humans mainly focused on agriculture or fishing, which produced little amount of pollution. Then, from the invention of machines, people started to rely on them because of their convenience and productivity. Although the usage of machines leads to the rapid development on economy, it has been causing serious consequences to environment by producing more pollution. Damages have been obviously done to environment by human activities. However, this situation can be changed, despite the damage done by human activities to the Earth, it is not too late to repair it as countries start to cooperate and establish

Some people claim that there have been produced large amount of greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere. It is already too late to save the planet as the extreme weathers like heat waves, extreme rainfalls and droughts, have already appealed currently. Also, there is a fact that ‘Extreme hot days in Australia are getting hotter, with the rate of very hot (greater than 40°C) daytime temperatures increasing since the 1990s.’ (Healey, 2014) Also, the global warming speeds up the ice melting. In Arctic, the ice coverage in September 2007 is less than 80%of what it was in 1970s and the wintertime ice extent is sharking by 4% per decades. (Henson and Clark, 2006) ‘As the snow and ice melt, they become less reflective and retain more heat because the darker surface reflects less