Imelda Operio's Learning School

Quezon City

S.Y 2020 - 2021

How to reduce Global Warming?

CHAPTER I

I. Introduction

There are lots of reasons why we have this Global warming today, it is primarily caused by
humans because of putting too much carbon in the atmosphere. For some people, global
warming really affects their source of income. Global warming is one of the worst consequence
of the climate change we have today.

What is a Global Warming?

Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth's climate system observed since the pre-
industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning,
which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere. It is the unusally
rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to
the greenhouse gases released by people burning fossil fuels.

What are the effects of Global warming?

Each year, scientists learn more about the consequences of global warming, and many agree
that environmental, economic, and health consequences are likely to occur if current trends
continue. Some effects are melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts will cause
more dramatic water shortages and increase the risk of wildfires in the American West. Rising
sea levels will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern Seaboard, especially in Florida, and in
other areas such as the Gulf of Mexico. Forests, farms, and cities will face troublesome new
pests, heat waves, heavy downpours, and increased flooding. All those factors will damage or
destroy agriculture
and fisheries. Disruption of habitats such as coral reefs and Alpine meadows could drive many
plant and animal species to extinction. Allergies, asthma, and infectious disease outbreaks will
become more common due to increased growth of pollen-producing ragweed, higher levels of
air pollution, and the spread of conditions favorable to pathogens and mosquitoes.

Why is it important to stop the global warming?

Heat waves will become more frequent and severe around the world, affecting hundreds of
millions—or even billions—of people if we don't act. Short-lived climate pollutants can be
dangerous air pollutants with harmful effects for public health, ecosystems, and agricultural
productivity. Acting now to reduce these pollutants contributes to meeting the Sustainable
Development Goals related to air quality, health, and food security.Short-lived climate
pollutants can be dangerous air pollutants with harmful effects for public health, ecosystems,
and agricultural productivity. Acting now to reduce these pollutants contributes to meeting the
Sustainable Development Goals related to air quality, health, and food security.

What can we do to help reduce Global Warming?

As individuals, we know about the small actions we can take to help reduce the emissions that
cause global warming due to climate change. As the world warms, extreme weather events are
becoming more frequent and intense, sea levels are rising, prolonged droughts are putting
pressure on food crops, and many animal and plant species are being driven to extinction. It’s
hard to imagine what we as individuals can do to resolve a problem of this scale and severity.

Some simple ways we can do to reduce the global warming is to use energy wisely. Get
charged up with renewables, the global push for cleaner, healthier energy is on. With costs
dropping every day, renewable energy is the best choice for the environment and the economy.
Eat more meat-free meals or buy any organic and local whenever possible, specially don't waste
food and grow your own, these are simppe ways we can make our diet more climate-friendly.
Reduce your transportation emissions because it will also make healthier, happier and help
reduce the air pollutions from vehicles that can trigger the global warming. Young people have
the most at stake when it comes to climate change. All over the world, kids, teenagers and
young adults are taking matters into their own hands in inspiring ways. Help them grow their
movement by joining and supporting them however you can. Find a group in your home
community and ask how you can help. If you’re an adult, be careful not to take over. Be
humble. Listen. Let the youth lead.

Solar panels and wind turbines turn sun and wind into electricity without releasing greenhouse
gases. As the technologies have scaled up and converted energy more efficiently, they have
come down in price to become cheaper than fossil fuels globally. Recycling helps reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by reducing energy consumption. Using recycled materials to make
new products reduces the need for virgin materials. This avoids greenhouse gas emissions that
would result from extracting or mining virgin materials.

II. Background of the Study

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to stopping or slowing global warming, and each

individual, business, municipal, state, tribal, and federal entity must weigh their options in light
of their own unique set of circumstances. Experts say it is likely many strategies working
together will be needed. Generally speaking, some examples of mitigation strategies we can
use to slow or stop the human-caused global warming is we can switch to renewable sources of
energy (such as solar and wind energy) to power our homes and buildings, thus emitting far less
heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. We can drive electric vehicles instead of those that
burn fossil fuels; or we can use mass transit instead of driving our own cars. We can conserve
energy by better insulating our homes and buildings, and by replacing old, failing appliances
with more energy-efficient models. Where practicable, we can counterbalance our annual
carbon dioxide emissions by investing in commercial services that draw down an equal amount
of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees or carbon capture and storage
techniques. Support more local businesses that use and promote sustainable, climate-smart
practices such as those listed above. We can consider placing an upper limit on the amount of
carbon dioxide we will allow ourselves to emit into the atmosphere within a given timeframe.

III. Related Literature and Study

This questionnaire‐based study explored school students' ideas, both scientific and
idiosyncratic, about the extent to which various actions might contribute towards reducing
global warming. Many students appreciated that a decrease in industrial and vehicle emissions
could play a major role in this reduction, and producing energy from renewable sources was
another popular idea. Fewer students appreciated the role that actions by individuals, such as
“saving” electricity and recycling paper, might play; perhaps suggesting that young people feel
disempowered about this issue. Misconceptions that confused sources of local pollution, such
as bonfires and street litter, with pollution on a global scale diminished over the age groups.
One major misconception appeared to be the idea that reducing nuclear power would diminish
global warming, whereas in fact nuclear energy, despite its environmental hazards, might be an
option to fill the gap between carbon‐based and renewable energy sources, at least in the
medium term. In view of the potential confusion that might be caused to students by the
complexity of the issues, we suggest that actions to help reduce global warming might be
taught within a taxonomic framework of reduction, recycling, replacement and raising.
(Reference: iopscience.iop.org)
 As the global population continues to rise, and attempts to increase arable land area come in
sharp conflict with the necessity to retain forests on one hand and pressures of urbanization on
the other, the wave of global food shortage that has hit the world recently is likely to hit us
again and again.

The increasing pressure on land is making meat production from macro-livestock less
sustainable than ever before. To add to the diminishing pastures and broadening demand-
supply gap of food grains are the shortages arising due to the diversion of some of the food
crops for biofuel production. There is also an increasing use of fodder for generating biomass
energy. The result is that even as the demand for animal protein keeps on rising with the
swelling global population, there is every possibility that attempts to meet this demand would
face serious crises in the coming years. The adverse impacts of global warming are conspiring to
make the situation even worse than it otherwise would have been.

The present review brings home the fact that one of the possible ways to get around this
problem is to extend the practice of entomophagy – use of insects as human food. As of now
entomophagy is practiced in some regions and some cultures, but, by-and-large, the bulk of
global population stay away from it. It is even looked down in several cultures and forbidden in
some others. The review brings out the irrationality of omitting edible insects from human diet
given the generally higher quality of nutrition they contain as compared to food based on
macro-livestock. This aspect, coupled with much lesser consumption of energy and natural
resources associated with insect-based protein production, makes entomophagy an option
which deserves urgent global attention.

The authors highlight the relatively stronger sustainability of animal protein production by
way of insect farming because, pound to pound, the production of insect protein takes much
less land and energy than the more widely consumed forms of animal protein. It is estimated
that over a thousand insect species are already a part of human diet and the nutrition offered
by several of the species matches or surpasses that which is contained in traditional non-
vegetarian foods. The paper also deals with the relevance of entomophagy as a potentially
more ecologically compatible and sustainable source of animal protein than the red and the
white meat on which most of the world presently depends. In the emerging global pattern
based on an expanding share of renewable energy sources, entomophagy fits in as a renewable
source of food energy for the future. (Reference: sciencedirect.com)

IV. Recommendation

Global warming is the major challenge for our global society. There is very little doubt that
global warming will change our climate in the next century. If implemented now, a lot of costs
and damage that could be caused by changing climate can be mitigated. By this short study on
how to reduce global warming, it can give us idea on how to help this problem overcome in the
future. Let us join project world impact and learn how we can help the environment in our own
little ways.

Changing agricultural practices and ending food waste around the world are among
recommendations made by scientists charged with looking at ways to mitigate global climate
change. "Agriculture globally contributes about 10 to 12 percent to greenhouse gas emissions,"
the author said. "If you add in forestry it moves it up to around 25 percent. Agriculture is
significant but not the major contributor and has declined slightly, percentage-wise, since the
last report in 2007, not so much because agriculture has changed that much but because the
energy sector is contributing more. (Source: Kansas State University Research and Extension)

Prepared by:

Dianalyn B. Catalan

11-ABM

Submitted to:

Sir Mark Padernal