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Assignment Blog # 2

The debate on climate change, also known as global warming, has been constantly grabbing the attention of many environmentalists, researchers, politicians, and citizens all over the world. I think that climate change is a very important global issue that could directly and indirectly affect the world. Contrary to some belief, climate change is real and it continues to affect the entire world. With all of the technological advances in today’s bustling global society as well as steady rates of population growth, climate change impacts physical and biological organisms. The main gateway for humankind in conjunction to climate change globally is the increase of greenhouse gas emissions. Direct physical effects include the melting of glaciers, warmer temperatures during spring and summer months, warming of bodies of water, abundance of weather pattern changes as well as disturbing plant and animal entities.  An increase in the population somewhat inadvertently effects climate change. No type of population control in majority of the world exists. All seven of the continents in the world are affected because of climate change produced by mankind. To ignore this global issue could have detrimental consequences on our world.

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson raised a widespread of public concern regarding pesticides and pollution of the environment. Her book facilitated the ban of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane) pesticides in 1972 in the United States. Her book catalogued environmental impacts of DDT pesticides. Silent Spring also questioned the releasing of large amounts of chemicals into the environment and its effect on the ecology as well as human health. The title "Silent Spring" was meant to evoke a spring season without any birds being heard as a result of the pesticide abuse. Silent Spring also raised important questions of the impact of the chemical industry and humankind impact on nature. Rachel Carson recognized the importance of the environment and how it continued to effect humankind in both the short and long term scales of time.