Crazed weather conditions and the corporate greed for money

Belarmino Dabalos Saguing
Rome, ItAly 01/03/2014

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Destructive climate changes happened in the last 150 years, because we have thickened the layers of gases in the atmosphere and because of this heat from the sun gets trapped instead of being bounced back to space leading to global warming. The trapped heat of the sun influence the sea and the wind or the aspects of climate. Climate changes are natural in millions of years but in the last 100 years we have warmed up the planet faster than ever, now reaching dangerous level.

All because of human greed. The increasing need for energy globally has apparently also lead energy producers to a “fossil fuel addiction”, with coal energy becoming the single biggest source of carbon emissions globally. Thirty percent of global carbon emissions come from coal power plants. the world has been warned as early as 1865 of increasing carbon levels in the atmosphere but the “business as usual trajectory” of still using fossil fuels continuous to this day.

Industrial carbon emissions (downloaded phoyo)

The various commitments by countries like the Kyoto Protocol signed by UN member countries in 1997 has failed. Canada withdrew from being a party to the protocol in 2012 while the United States signed it in 1995 but has yet to ratify it. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency study shows that the 2012 estimates put China in the top spot with annual emissions of 9,860,000 in thousands of CO2 tons while the United States is second with 5,190,000.

And if that is still not enough, we continue to complicate matters with uncontrolled deforestations to satisfy the large scale loggers’ greed for money. Forests are great purifiers of air. Data from 2002 shows that only 20 percent left of forests is left in the Philièppines alone, only 3 percent of it are virgin forests. Only 4.3 percent of corals are left in good condition and the same study shows that 90 percent of fish stock are depleted.

The effects are global. The United States has suffered severe hurricane and other climate changes, and so is Europe. We have rrecvently sampled the effects of global climate changes.

It is high time to think of changing our orientation from love of money to love of humanity and nature.