Environmental Change Speech Changing Climatic Conditions

Question: Discuss about the Environmental Change Speech for Changing Climatic Conditions. Answer: Speech Ozone layer depletion, Global warming, Greenhouse emissions are some of the terms we have been coming across for quite some time now. All these terms are related to the changing climatic conditions of the world, putting forth the bare reality that mankind is facing today. With the idea of increasing production and income, the world witnessed industrialization. This phenomenon not only resulted in mass production of a wide variety of products making our life luxuries but has also brought with it certain devastating situations. The concepts ultimately resulted in evil activities like deforestation, increasing pollution accompanied by a constantly rising temperature. A little too late, the residents of the world realized that changes need to be made in the lifestyle if it is intended to sustain mankind on the precious green earth. To make up for the cons of the fast degrading situation of the only habitable planet, the necessity of preparing certain path to amend the condition was felt (Intergovernmental, 2014). One might be wondering if the climate has really changed the condition of the World so disastrously! It might seem fine today, because climate changes affect human life just the way it affect the glaciers. The change is slow just like a melting glacier (Cohen, 2014). The changing climatic conditions may not have an impact today, but it is bound to affect our future generations. Suffering from devastating situations like floods, drought, scarcity of natural resources and rising temperature would be common (Trenberth, 2014). The devastating situation is evident and does not need anyone to point it out separately. Do you remember the temperature of Canada a couple of years ago? Was it like it is today? Did so many natural calamities occur at these frequent intervals? Was it so hot, so cold, and so rainy? I am sure you have noticed the difference. So the question arises that what actually lead to these changes? Is it the dependency on technology and the need to earn more? We have all became the captives of technology and development. There is no one to blame because no one has made mistake, technology has brought advancement and helped us to achieve the unachieved. It falls in our responsibility to decrease the side effects of the same. There are several ways of participating in the process of making the World sustainable. One can contribute in activities like gardening or planting trees. Careful use of water and other natural resources and would definitely help the environmental condition to improve (Intergovernmental, 2015) Our country is bountiful in crude oil, minerals and timber. However, if these resources are consumed at the same rate as today, it is only a matter of time before we run out of these resources. An investment in the generation of renewable resources of energies, such as, solar and wind energy would help in sustaining the natural resources of Canada. The investment is small compared to other industrial investments but it will open the doors to countless energy industries creating jobs for growing next generation bio-fuels, building solar panels, innovative battery technology and so on. A billion dollars invested in a coal fired power plant creates around 900 jobs, but when the same is invested in solar would create 1,900 jobs and when invested in wind would create 3,300 (Hoffman, 2013). Also, it is an understatement to say that coal mining is a dangerous job. Therefore, it can be said that simply changing to an alternative energy rather than using up the non-renewable energy sources wo uld help in creating a better environment. At the same time it will help in employing large number of people (Rogelj, 2013). Another activity to combat with the changes is by decreasing our carbon foot print. To do the same we would have to shift from high carbon activities to low carbon activities. These low carbon activities are labor intense hence are strong drivers for job creation, especially in clean transport, recycling, and clean infrastructure and energy sectors (Stone, 2012). Investing in small changes in and around our houses and work environment by using insulated doors, continuous gardening, using programmable thermostats etc. would help to create jobs in the small scale industry. Using energy efficient infrastructure could be an extremely easy way to save the earth. Why use more power on equipment that would not only affect our pocket but also release toxic gases such as Chloro Fluoro Carbons and pollute our nature. On the other hand, investing in energy efficient equipment would result not only in saving money, but would also result in consumption of fewer natural resources. Not to mention, need for innovation and creative technology that would help in a greener earth is at its zenith today. Several small scale industries and startups such as food processing industries, poultry, fishing, road side vendors, leather products manufacturer and others, today are coming up with plans and equipment that would help everyone to adopt to the climatic changes (Bulkeley, 2013). It is us who have to give these companies the chance to help us create a better environment. The above mentioned small scale companies have the ability to increase the hiring capacity in the current industry providing employment to simple labor as well as innovators who work on either sides of development (Hoffman, 2013). Energy industries may not need a lot of manual labor once set up but have the potential to increase the need to labor for pipelines, transportation and manual set up activities. It is true that all the above ideas would cost us more than the conventional methods. However, the concept is not only to give our best to make sure we have a greener earth but also that there is an opportunity for increasing employment in the country. It is our responsibility to make sure that we take certain opportunities to see the brighter side of a climate change investment, where creating jobs and increasing the economy of the country goes side by side. Let us hope that our mere investment would be a contribution to return the favor that nature has done to us. References Bulkeley, H. and Castn Broto, V., 2013. Government by experiment? Global cities and the governing of climate change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(3), pp.361-375. Cohen, J., Screen, J.A., Furtado, J.C., Barlow, M., Whittleston, D., Coumou, D., Francis, J., Dethloff, K., Entekhabi, D., Overland, J. and Jones, J., 2014. Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather. Nature geoscience, 7(9), pp.627-637. Hoffman, A.J. and Woody, J.G., 2013. 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