Everyone needs to make money, it is the one
way they can provide for themselves and their family. With money, people buy
houses, pay bills, they buy clothing, and buy food for their family as a way to
show their love and respect for one another. But people take the amount of
money they take in for granted. Many people in the U.S. each year go broke buy
buying things that they feel like they need, even if they can't afford it. Every
day, more and more people are left on the streets to starve. But buying things
they can't afford isn't always their fault. Food prices go up and down on the
charts every day. One day, bananas may cost $1.00 a pound, but then next, they
may only cost $.50 a pound. This roller coaster
ride is due partly to climate change. In the article, "Climate Change Seen
Posing Risk to Food Supplies", it says that "Climate change will pose sharp risks to the
world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production
and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar,
scientists have found." If nothing is done to prevent Global
Warming, soon, none of us will have food.
The article "Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food
Supplies" by Justin Gillis can be found on the New Your Times link:
Scientists say
that "They are already seeing the harmful effects in some regions."
Climate Changes are caused when people release greenhouse gases (like CO2) into
the air. This can also be referred to as the Greenhouse effect or Global
Warming. Each year, we let out more and more green house gases, and every year
the risk of food supplies increases. In the article it says that "The
warning on the food supply is the sharpest in tone the panel has issued. Its
previous report, in 2007, was more hopeful."
All the time,
scientists do experiments to see how certain crops will react to the climate
change. They see how well they will survive, and how much they will produce with infinite
amounts of Carbon Dioxide in the air. The groups of scientists that experiment
with "main reports every five to six years."
To all the negatives,
there is a positive. For Climate Change effect the food supply, the negatives
are that there won't be enough food to supply people with and that the extreme
weather conditions will result in animal extinction, the benefit would be that
northern lands could produce more food than they do now, "On the food
supply, the new report finds that benefits from global warming may be seen in
some areas, like northern lands that are now marginal for food production."
But the one positive doesn't cancel both or one of the negatives, instead that "global
warming could reduce agricultural production as much as 2% each decade for the
rest of this century." With the production rates decreasing by 2%, the
demand rate for food is predicted to raise by about 14% as the population is
growing. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, "9.6 billion, from our
7.2 billion today, will acquire to eat richer diets."
With the giant
increase of people, will lead to an even bigger demand for food. But "Any
shortfall would lead to rising food prices that would hit the world poor hardest
as has already occurred from price increases of recent years." There will
be more and more people to feed, and the average size of a person will
increase. Global food demand can be met
in the future by putting new farms and new ranches to use. If this were to
happen, it would be good for the economy
but terrible for the climate or environment, which is basically the main topic
of this article. More and more people would get good paying, easy jobs that don't
take that much work. But with a farm comes animals, and automobiles. Animals
and automobiles together are very bad for the environment. Animals are constantly
banging and pounding on the soil which kills the plants. Automobiles, like
tractors, are also very bad for the environment because of the gas they need to
work productively, the smoke that comes
out of them, as well as pounding all over the ground.
But it is never
too late to change this Climate Change from happening. Although it may be
costly and the changes wouldn't be seen for a few hundred years, people that are
here now should be thinking about the future instead of getting caught up where
it doesn't count. In the New York Times article, it says that "The
document also finds that it is not too late for cuts in emissions to have a
strong impact on the future risks of climate change, though the costs would be
incurred in the next few decades and the main benefits would probably be seen
in the late 21st century and beyond."
Life is too short
to be made perfect. But it is your one shot to do something that counts and
could be later known as life changing. Most planned out dreams do not come
true, only a few do every now in then. So instead of failing over and over
again at making your life perfect, why don't you set the future people up for
success.
Teamwork is everything.
You will find it being used in almost everything you do. Team work is basically
impossible to escape. No matter how hard you try, people will be using
teamwork. It separates tasks and activities into steps that are easy and
capable of accomplishing. So why don't people make it easier for themselves and
other people and use teamwork to provide for their family. In the end, money is
still the most important thing right? Money , money, money, and more money. People
need to stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about how you effect
others.
