Why We Need to Take Climate Change Seriously

7 min readDec 20, 2020

Our future grandchildren’s well-being is at stake.

It is crazy to think our beautiful planet could become as hot as a ghost pepper. Our planet is on the way to be quite dangerous for our future grandkids, so dangerous that they are not going to be able to survive.

Climate change is when the temperature is changing for a long period of time. Over recent years, the temperature on Earth has been rising dramatically. The rising has had a negative effect on the planet already, and it is only going to get worse.

We all must try to save our planet for the future. Because it can be fixed, but we have to take it seriously. Before, it is too late.

Over the years, our planet has been going through changes that will have a horrible effect on us in the future. It has been all over the news, but people continue to do things that cause all of us harm.

First, we all have to realize what the real problems are, so we can try to reverse the downfall of our planet.

Droughts and Tropical Storms- The rising temperatures can cause a rises in droughts and tropical storms. Droughts can cause desertification that could kill animals and people living there. Most of the time when a place has been wiped out it is going to be extremely hard to recover it. Tropical Storms can cause communities to be destroyed and water to become contaminated.
Loss of Sea Ice- The Arctic and Antarctic are melting. They are the homes for so many unique animals, and it could be taken away from them. The rising temperatures are causing some animals not to be able to survive. For example, the beautiful polar bears are dying because they cannot adapt to the new weather. Polar bears have a body structure made exactly for the cold, and their bodies will not survive this change in weather.
Shortages of Food and Water- The natural disasters and the changes in precipitation that are caused by climate change are going to cause agriculture to go downhill in the future. Some people are not going to have food to eat or water to drink because it is going to be limited if things do not start to change.
Sea levels - Climate change is causing sea levels to rise which is horrible for the planet. The rising will cause erosion because the waves are coming on land. Also, storms are only going to get worse because of the rising sea levels. People are going to lose their homes and businesses if climate change continues.

Nerem, R. S., B. D. Beckley, J. T. Fasullo, B. Hamlington, D. Masters, and G. T. Mitchum. “Climate-change — driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018).

We should all see that the planet is not happy with us because we are not treating it right. Some of us are not even paying attention to the horrible effects of climate change that we are facing.

Our atmosphere is not going to keep protecting us if we do not stop contributing to climate change. The atmosphere is what allows us to live on Earth. If we did not have it, we would all burn to death.

You would think that since our lives depend on the atmosphere that it would get taken care of, but it is not. It is falling apart, and it is affecting us now. It is only going to get worse if we don’t start changing things.

According to CNN, “Expect approximately 650 excess deaths per year caused by extreme heat by 2050”(Marsh 4)and that is only 30 years from now. People are going to start dying from climate change, and we have to do something about it.

We can do simple things to save the planet like recycle, use less transportation(when possible), and turn off electronics(when you are not using them). It is time that we all start doing our part, so our planet can prosper. Because climate change CAN be reversed, but we must do the small things first.

Marsh, Rene, et al. “Here’s How Climate Change Will Impact the US.” CNN, Cable News Network, 1 Mar. 2019, www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/health/climate-change-impact-by-region/index.html.

“Causes of Sea Level Rise.” Union of Concerned Scientists, www.ucsusa.org/resources/causes-sea-level-rise-what-science-tells-us.

Why We Need to Take Climate Change Seriously

Written by Algie