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Climate Change: An Invisible Enemy

 Waqar Ahmed: The Productivity Science

What you can't see, you can't fight with it.

Few Important Facts:

  • Paris Climate Agreement restricts post-industrial states to limit the inevitable temperature rise at 1.5 C from the preindustrial temperature scale.
  • Due to air pollution because of fossil fuel burning, there are about 13 deaths per minute recorded around the world (UN).

This week, successful world leaders gather in Glasgow to lay out their groundbreaking strategic policies to curtail the climatic catastrophe. According to the Paris Climate treaty, the world would reach 1.5 C at the end of the 21st century, but thanks to the rapidly growing economies like China and India, this mark would be surpassed at the end of the third decade of the 21st century. There will still be seven decades left and if the Carbon emissions didn't go down, humanity will have to pay the cost far beyond its predictions. Due to the rise in global mean temperature, this planet is likely to face more wildfires, frequency in natural hazards, tsunamis, and it would be a normal occurrence when the climate doesn’t fit well with human behavior. How the world treats this ominous issue in this COP26 and further beyond will determine our future on this planet. It's obvious that an eyewash won’t help get away from this issue; therefore, a befitting answer is required from world leaders to share a joint vision to provide  solution to this most anticipated global issue. As we know a global catastrophe needs global unity to relinquish the threat that challenges global existence, respectively.

Humanity has prevailed for centuries and from the evolutionary time until now, we all have one thing in common, we eat food. That food comes from the earth. Today, we are able to have enough amount of food to feed the stomach of our loved ones, but that brings us to ask a crucial question. We are enjoying this privilege because our previous generations cared for the future and preserved the ecosystem for us to live better lives. Having said that, what kind of future are we leaving for our future generations who have yet to see this world? When they get to realize the horrible situation they are trapped in, they will ask this question to themselves, who messed this up when we (the future generation) didn’t do anything?

Climate is an existential threat to all humanity irrespective of borders. We are all into it. It’s not the time to finger point and waste time finding the culprit. It’s time to stand together against the menace of global warming. Let’s push our leader to carve out policies that favor the curtailment of Carbon and switch towards renewables as soon as possible. If we failed to recover from the carbon pandemic in this century, our future generations might never be able to fight this Frankenstein monster as the intensity of today’s carbon is far lesser than it would be a century later.

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