Global warming is one of the most threatening forces affecting the world today. The adverse effects of global warming are becoming more and more apparent. Climate change is a direct result of global warming. We are now seeing more hurricanes and tropical storms, and they are getting to be more intense storms.
One of the main reasons global warming is unstoppable, is because people continue to use fossil fuels, even though we know we shouldn't. We also have no structural plan to stop using fossil fuels any time soon, either. Humans are using the atmosphere as if it were a giant dumping ground for pollutants. Gas-powered vehicles are still being sold, even though the technology for electric vehicles is now available.
Of course, the main reason this is going on, is because of all the money being made by oil. Oil is a huge business which is killing our planet. Here is the main reason why global warming is unstoppable. If we were to completely stop using fossil fuels today, the greenhouse gases still remain trapped in the atmosphere for several decades. So even if we stopped using fossil fuels, it could take 200 years or more for the greenhouse gases to go away. Between 65% and 80% of CO2 released into the atmosphere dissolves into our oceans over a period of approximately 20-200 years.
The rest of the greenhouse gas is removed by slower processes that take up to several hundreds of thousands of years. What this tells us is that after 200 years of not using fossil fuels, we will still have a lot of greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere permanently.
Of course, the more we continue to use fossil fuels, the worse the global warming will get. So even though our planet has warmed, and our climate has gotten worse. We can still benefit from ceasing to burn fossil fuels. The sad reality though is that it would take a miracle for our governments to outright ban the burning of fossil fuels. If humans completely stopped burning fossil fuels because of a new law enforced by all countries. We would be left with no cars to get around in, many who rely on cars and trucks would be stuck.
Panic would no doubt be a consequence of such a law, and many people would surely also break the law. Such a law hasn't even been talked about yet in the mainstream news. No one dares admit that we would need such a law, it would be like admitting the god-awful truth.
We are so addicted to oil and fossil fuels that we blindly burn them. Or maybe people do realize that burning fossil fuels is bad, but they don't care.
It is of my opinion that most people would rather kill their own planet then face 5 to 10 years of hardship. 5 to 10 years of hardship is what we would face if we were to completely stop burning fossil fuels. We would go through a period of adaptation, and during that time we would develop new technology to sustain us.
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