Did you know that the earth s climate is gradually changing due to human beings?
We take full responsibility to this accusation due to our day to day activities. These
activities alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of
greenhouse gases. These such gases primarily include carbon dioxide, methane, and
nitrous oxide. Our dependency on fossil fuels for energy plays a huge role on our
planet s fate. The coasts of all countries could become immersed underwater if the
polar icecaps were to melt, due to the greenhouse effect….. largely, due to us.
So what will we, as habitants of this planet, do to prevent this catastrophe?
In 1992, a few nations came together to sign the Untied Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as the UNFCCC. These
industrialized nations agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by the year
2000. However, such leading nations like the United States and Japan simply could
not meet this goal.
On December 11, 1997, negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC
were completed. It committed the industrialized nations to specified reductions on
the emission of six greenhouse gases. The United States had to reduce our
greenhouse gases by 7% below the 1990 levels between the years 2008-2012. The
The Term Paper on Bhopal Gas Tragedy 3
Bhopal Gas Tragedy is known to be a cataclysmic in the industrial world, an incident occurring at the Union Carbide plant located in Bhopal, India (Bhargava 1). The complex reverberations of such a prevalent disaster continued to send quivers through a company, an industry, political and bureaucratic leadership of a nation, and the lawful and policy instruments by which two countries India and the ...
US, only counting for 2 1/2% of the world s population, has made use of 25% of
the worlds energy resources.
While this agreement not only lowered the developed nation s emission of
greenhouse gases, plus hurting these nation s economies, the deal basically left the
developing nations completely out of it. True, these nations did not have the
technology and other luxuries that developed nations possessed; but sooner or later
these developing nations will become developed , thus contributing to the global
warming problem. And here we go all over again.
If it were up to me, I would have proposed that ALL nations cut back on
their greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, not all nations would have to cut back on
the same percent. Instead, the leading nations would cut back the earlier proposed
percent, or some percent in that vicentage, and the developing nations would cut
back on just a little. Therefor, their economy won t be damaged too badly, and also
these countries produce no where near the amount of gases that developed nations
produce.
To me, this idea is both logical and fair. True , I may not know all there is to
know about the greenhouse effect and global warming, but this idea makes since to
me. But I ll leave this one up to the professionals.
