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Climate change-is there hope?
I saw a twitter thread stating we have 2 years to fix this or humanity will end in 2050. I looked it up and scientists are saying it too-I've heard either Earth will be uninhabitable or human civilization will collapse due to what I assume will be recource shortages and violent storms.
I'm 16 and it gives me mad anxiety that I won't grow up or get to do the things I want to because the Earth will collapse. I also know there are corporations who are mass destroying rainforests and the ocean who don't plan on stopping and who caused this mess in the first place, and my dumbass president (I'm American) won't even admit it exists. If 2020 elects a Democrat or even a Republican who acknowledges climate change it may be too late.
Unlike political or economic crisis, this isn't something that can just be fixed. It's nature, it's unavoidable. So is there any hope, really? Are people blowing it out of proportions? Is anyone doing anything?
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I have studied this too. Some scientists spread the doom story. It is of course possible that we destroy the earth enough that at some point, there will be mass deaths due to a lack of food (famine) and clean water for just one result. However there are scientists who have studied it from a different angle and what they have found out about climate change and the earth heating up, is not because of what humans are doing to it. That is another issue entirely. No one can predict how fast humans will destroy the planet to a point that only a few people may still be able to survive on it.
However, scientists have found that our planet isn't the only one heating up in our solar system. All the other planets in our solar system are also heating up. And we know there are no humans on the other planets doing stuff that causes them to heat up. So they realized there must be a natural cycle where a planet heats up but likely does the same in the other direction, also growing colder until it becomes like winter all the time. They have the last ice age to study. So the process is slow moving because the ice age was a long time ago and we are living at a time when we see polar caps melting. I have seen many trees among healthier ones that stand there looking dry and leaves all brown, or pines orange, and the whole tree is dead, not getting enough natural rainfall to help it keep living. I used to see glaciers and snow on mountain ranges from a distance, as a child during summer time. I can see two mountain ranges and both have no snow, and the glaciers are almost not visible anymore as they are much smaller. So if I saw the before of mountains at age 10, and here we are 50 years later, I's say that is a pretty quick difference. To me it means we've gotten to the tipping point at which things will continue to heat up. Without enough water to water crops and animals, and plants can't survive heat and wither, we will at some point be facing global famine. More animals go extinct and many humans will die simply due to lack of food and water and no escape from hotter temperatures. When we reach the point in the cycle where its gotten to the hottest point, then it will just as slowly start to get cooler every 50 or 100 years until the planet reaches another ice age.
The only real problem is that if our planet was totally clean and not damaged by humankind, we would have a better chance of surviving. However when our most precious source- water has been compromised from leaking nuclear reactors, dumping toxins/trash into rivers, lakes, oceans, sewage leaking into water sources, the chemicals sprayed in the sky to help create a shield to help stop the heating up and these chemicals eventually fall and land on soil and get into water supplies, and fracking/digging for oil below the water table isn't without leakage and water is flooded with crude oil and toxic to humans and animals in areas where fracking has occurred and continues to happen, leaks from oil pipelines, tanker boats losing the gasoline/oil in water, plus more, there will soon be very little clean water left and water is life. No one can really know exactly when our polluting the planet will cause the kinds of problems you are hearing of when combined with the heating up that we can do nothing about because that itself is a natural cycle. Is there anything we can do then just about our using up of precious resources on the planet and polluting it. Yes, the knowledge is out there,but due to money hungry people at the top, inventors with alternative sources for fuel for one example, have been shot down, even thought they are driving vehicles they outfitted to run on stuff other than electricity or gasoline. There is corruption in many levels around the world. Just using the gas example, the rich oil tycoons would stand to lose their fortunes if overnight the world changed to using alternative sources of energy, to name a few, tidal, wind powered, solar. I can't prove it but if its not happening, then certain key figures in governments around the world must be accepting money to keep their mouths shut and go along with the old ways instead of working on laws to put gasoline out of business and make use of alternative sources. These are people greedy to accept tons of money now to enjoy a luxourious life now with fancy homes, cars and several vacations a year and properties owned in many places, not thinking ahead about what is left for their children, great grandchildren. 2 years is likely not enough time to fix things. If just in gas issues, we have spent decades slowly polluting our planet, then it is stupid to assume it will take much less time to fix it. Fixing will take something that will never happen, ridding the planet of all the greedy who don't care and continue to halt progress toward a safer cleaner world. That will not happen because that would mean God stepping in, taking away free will and striking those people dead. Since that won't be happening, we are sadly on this terrible path. What gets me is a report I read online some time age regarding solar energy. If land the size of one state, I can't remember for sure but it was in the south so I think it was texas....so if land the size of texas was only used to cover with solar energy panels, no one living there. The energy collected from just land that size, would be enough to cover all the electricity needed to power the rest of the whole country. That is amazing. Scientists and mathematicians came up with that and I believe it. If the planet is heating up, it would be terrific to have such a thing in place and then everyone could own air conditioning run on the solar energy source and that already solves just one problem. If some of these other ways to power cars, trains, planes, etc were used, we would no longer be digging for oil so eventually, the planet will be able to be cleaned up. I know you are young and depressed but even a few people can do something to change their immediate surroundings on the planet. What I'd like to see is a smaller town where a set of solar engineers set up the panels on non used land in the town and the facility for storing that kind of mass energy and powering an entire towns needs on only solar, no more gas station, just electric cars and when it is working so well, it can be a model for the rest of the state, country and the world. There are more people like you and me than those few who number among the money greedy who run things around the world. So if the masses refused to go along with the governments plans and demanded the same as the first enviromentally friendly town, then things may just begin to turn around. It would be something that might take your entire lifetime devoted to. The bigger the ship you want to turn, the longer it takes to make that turn. But at least you would know you did your part in changing the future for following generations. I am not including myself in something this grand a scale because i am not young anymore. I can only do what little I can, and gettling solar energy for my home is about all I will be able to swing. But I would like to see this done as an entire community which wouldn't be taken care of by government and only be funded by people wanting to see the same kind of change and willing to live in a model city to show others it is possible.
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