Global Warming: Get Use to It

After seeing Al Gore and reading this article I realized Global Warming is a problem with a difficult solution. Global Warming is real but the steps needed to be taken in fixing it are complex. Al Gore thinks that if our government can properly aids and lead the fight against Global Warming by makes people cut CO2 emmissions and change the attitudes then we can stop it. However, in the article “Global Warming: Get Used To It,” Fareed Zakaria explains that “even if we adopt the most far-reaching plans to combat climate change, we would still watch greenhouse gases rise for decades.” Although it does not directly link with the topic of the Hudson River it does interlap with many problems that we look at in class everyday.

Fareed explains that with the increasing population rates throughout the world even the efforts taken to reduce future greenhouse emissions will not stop the irreversible damage that has already been done. Zakaria believes that “in addition to our efforts to prevent and mitigate climate change, we need to employ another strategy—adaptation.” For example, to prevent further damage from global warming in places like New Orleans, we must be prepared for the disasters by strengthening the levies. Although it is very costly to respond to adaptation and prevention, it is necessary for the survival of our dirty planet. The longer we wait to adapt, the more costly it will become. We have entered Biosphere 2. In order to survive we must “stop talking and start acting.” By preparing, adjusting and adapting today to this New World we live in our species will hopefully have a chance to continue to thrive.