The Global Challenge of Climate Change

Running head: THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The Global Challenge of Climate Change
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1THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is a major concerning issue in the modern world. The political powers,
environmentalists and global leaders like Pope Francis, are undertaking advanced research works
to explore the impacts of the climate change and to figure out ways to tackle this big global
challenge. Climate change and global warming are affecting the sustainability of the planet and
measures are taken to address the reasons resulting in climate change. The effect of climate
change is highly visible on the natural resources, such as, Avramova (2019) writes about the loss
of glaciers in the CNN website. The author mentioned that the glaciers could disappear from
almost all the major mountain ranges across USA, Western Canada and Central Europe within
this century given the rate of ice loss due to global warming. Between 1961 and 2016, there has
been a loss of 9000 billion tons of ice from the glaciers. The loss of ice implies a rise in the sea
levels by 27 millimeters. The study was conducted on 19000 glaciers through satellites and 450
field visits and thus, the results were far more credible and significant. Moreover, loss of glaciers
can destabilize the mountain ridges, and the localities that depend on glacier water in dry
seasons, such as, in the Peruvian Andes, would be deprived of water supply for household and
agricultural works. The alarming situation is that the sea level will continue to rise and lives of
the billions of people living in major cities along the coastal areas, such as, New York, Tokyo,
London, and Sydney, will be at risk.
The issue highlighted by Avramova (2019) is quite a serious global challenge. Apart from
economic, cultural and political dimensions of globalization, the ecological aspects can also
destabilize the globalization process. Thus, people must be aware about the climate change and
global warming as a severe global challenge. These are mostly caused by the greenhouse effect.
Level of consumption increased at an exponential rate and to meet the demands of the growing
population, the level of production of all types of goods has increased too. It has led to a rise in