Global Warming Crisis

Today we can often hear the term, "global warming." The one of the main reasons why we can hear that term so frequently is that the problems that are caused by global warming are affecting almost all aspects of our lives. There are some examples of it are following: climate change, appearance of new diseases, negative impact on economic activities. Firstly, according to the statistics of temperature change of the earth during the last century, we are experiencing the most unstable climates ever. By having dramic growth in temperature, we have been damaged by many kinds of natural disaster such as severe hurricanes and melting glaciers. Those negative effects predicts that we will have tragic natural disaster within next 50 years or so. Also, it is projected that most species will be extincted at the end of 21st century because of the growth of temperature in earth. Secondly, new diseases have appeared during the last century due to the increasing temperature. As an example, SARS has become floushied because of warm atmosphere which allow virus to survive longer. Lastly, global warming is causing negative effects onbusiness activities as well. In the past, natural resources such as water and gas considered as infinite resources. However, due to the influence of global warming, we are predicted to suffer from the shortage of those natural resources. Along with that, insurance fee keep increasing because increasing of number of natural disasters and disease that might kill people. Furthermore, it is also causing conflict between interest groups about environment. Overall, global warming became an issue that we should be concerned in order to maintain lives that we have lived until now.

Personally, I also learned and heard about global warming since I was an elementary school student. At that time, I did not really think the issue is important to be concerned. However, since when I was in high school, I have started to realize that global warming is a serious issue as I keep experiencing climate change every year and hearing about news related to natural disasters caused by global warming. Actually, I am taking meteorology class now in San Jose State University. As I have gone through the semester, I even recognized how important to solve the problem for us in order to prevent to have catastrophic moment in the future. Although today's global warming is mainly caused by a few developed nations which began to industrialized earlier than other countries, global warmining has become an issue for countries all over the world. Since it is affecting all nations on the earth, we are required to act global as a whole. Some efforts made by a few nations will not be able to solve this complicated issue. Rather than that, all people from all over the world should act simultaneously in order to overcome the difficulties. Now it is the time for us to make a decision whether having bright future as we have had during the history of mankind or being ready to have a doom's day.
And I finally believe that it is totally up to how we react to today's situation.