The document discusses potential advantages and disadvantages of global warming. Some suggested advantages include increased plant growth in cold regions, prevention of an ice age, and opening of the Northwest Passage. However, the document argues these advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. Major disadvantages are increased insect-borne diseases, economic impacts of climate change effects and migration, increased energy use and pollution from hotter weather, and destruction of cultural sites.
The document discusses potential advantages and disadvantages of global warming. Some suggested advantages include increased plant growth in cold regions, prevention of an ice age, and opening of the Northwest Passage. However, the document argues these advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. Major disadvantages are increased insect-borne diseases, economic impacts of climate change effects and migration, increased energy use and pollution from hotter weather, and destruction of cultural sites.
The document discusses potential advantages and disadvantages of global warming. Some suggested advantages include increased plant growth in cold regions, prevention of an ice age, and opening of the Northwest Passage. However, the document argues these advantages do not outweigh the disadvantages. Major disadvantages are increased insect-borne diseases, economic impacts of climate change effects and migration, increased energy use and pollution from hotter weather, and destruction of cultural sites.
The so-called advantages of climate are out there—if you're really looking but do they compensate for the disruption and destruction wrought by the disadvantages? Again, the answer is no but for die-hard fans of the global warming trend, advantages might include the following suspect scenarios:
The Arctic, Antarctic, Siberia, and other frozen regions of the
earth might experience more plant growth and milder climates. The next ice age could possibly be prevented. The Northwest Passage through the formerly icy Canadian Arctic Archipelago could arguably open up to transportation. Fewer deaths or injuries would occur due to arctic conditions. Longer growing seasons could mean increased agricultural production in some areas.
Disadvantages: Health, Social, and Economic Impact
In addition to climate change affecting weather patterns and food production, which in turn have a negative impact on the future of human race as well as the planet, climate change can also put the hurt on people's pocketbooks, the economy of an area on a larger scale, and health in general:
Insect-borne diseases increase. For example, if insects don't die off in an
area because it no longer reaches the cold temperatures it once did, diseases those insects may carry—such Lyme disease—can proliferate more easily. People from poorer, drier, hotter, or low-lying countries may attempt to emigrate to wealthier or higher-elevation locales seeking better (or at least nondeadly) conditions, causing tension among the existing population. As climates warm overall, people use more energy resources for cooling needs, which will lead to a rise in air pollution and deaths from increasingly hot weather conditions that cannot be mitigated. Allergy and asthma rates go up due to pollution exacerbated by the earlier and longer blooming of plants. Cultural or heritage sites are destroyed due to increased extremes and acid rain.