The Crisis of Climate Change

Lately, when I have been listening to or reading about the current news, climate change has been a popular topic of discussion. Climate change has been a problem for some years. I can still remember talking about climate change in a middle school science class. Now that I have gotten older, when I hear about climate change I recognize that it stems from so many different kinds of things. In the article, “Capitalism Is What’s Burning the Planet, Not Average People,” the author of the article talks about the Paris Agreement. The agreement is to keep the global average temperatures to rise only one and a half degrees Celcius. The article then states that “In reality, the target is crude: we have already reached 1.1 or 1.2 degrees Celcius of warming, and our current climate can hardly be described as safe.” When the temperature increases by one and a half degrees Celcius, the sea level will rise by two to three meters. It would be detrimental to let that happen. Not only would the sea level rise, but an occurrence of extreme heat would be around 4 times more likely to occur, according to the article. If we were to let the global average temperature rise every year, the sea level would continue to rise, and instances of extreme heat would be more and more likely to occur. Eventually, we would be struggling to deal with such dangerous conditions. With the pressing matter of this issue, why is there not more funding for global warming? How can people in society make changes as a whole to reduce global warming?