After all these years of emission into the atmosphere, climate change is here, because we create it.
Climate change is actually one of the first problems on Earth we need to resolve. It does more than just warm up the planet, it affects living beings because of wildfires or melting ice, and affects the land, oceans and glaciers.
We need living beings to preserve the earth. Today, I think humans don’t really try to find a solution to stop it, we just do everything possible to live with it. Maybe one day, we will be able to live normally with climate change, but some of our habits must be changed.
I know a famous place in the mountains in the east of France called La Mer de Glace (The sea of ice). This place is like a big glacier on the ground (like a sea). When I went to this place five years ago, the ice had almost gone, and today it’s worse.
Five years ago, I hadn’t realized that climate change caused this. But now, because I’m older, and I try to learn more about our planet, I know how close the danger of climate change is.
For now, the big consequence of climate change is the weather. We can already see important temperatures change with the summer becoming hotter and the winter colder.
The land depends on the weather and animals depend on the land. This is like the line: “Each living being depends on something else on Earth.” If only one of them is disturbed by climate change, it’s all the environment which will be impacted.
We can’t totally eliminate climate change, even if we stop all our activities, because we still use most of them like factories or cars. But we can change our habits and our way of thinking.
We are not the only generation on Earth who will know and live with climate change. Future generations need to know what it is.
Climate change doesn’t depend on the past and what we did to get here, but on the future, and how we can change it.
Justine Mievre is an environmental science student at Brooks Secondary School.
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