GLOBAL WARMING: ARE YOU PREPARED FOR IT?

UNEDITED SAMPLE EDITORIAL ARTICLE
Geraldine A Refareal
I–Blaise Pascal


It is very alarming that global warming and the ozone depletion is on the rise, the question is, are you prepared when it strike?

What is Global Warming? How does it affect our daily lives? Who are responsible? How did it spread? We need to answer these questions to overcome our enemy so that we can overpower and diminish it before it’s too late.

Global warming is the heating of the earth’s surface and atmosphere caused by The Greenhouse Effect, wherein the source of heat is from sunlight trapped in carbon dioxide. When this happens, the oxygen level of the atmosphere becomes lower than that of carbon dioxide with the trapped sunlight. When this spreads it will pile up in the atmosphere and result to what we call now as global warming. This causes the oceans to evaporate and the ozone to deplete.

Many results of global warming are the rising of oceans which will lead to droughts which will lead to famine, ozone depletion which leads to skin diseases caused by ultra-violet rays present without the layer of ozone above it and the heating of the polar ice caps which will lead to the second flooding of the earth (the first was after the ice age). If the droughts lead to famine only few people will survive and when the second flooding happens, no one will surely live and only half of Mt. Everest will be the only land formation.

It only proves that we must now stop global warming down to its roots. The root couldn’t be animals because they do not have the intelligence enough to be part of even an inch of it. It also couldn’t be plants- they're the ones who lessen global warming! So it comes to us, and don’t even doubt what this paper means because it tells the truth. Every person contributes to global warming - even a piece of candy wrapper can lead to global warming because of the processes it goes under to produce it and to dispose of it. It shows that we are responsible, that we, as students even if very little can contribute to the stopping of global warming. How?

As students we can build a crowd of believers that we must save the earth before any of its results happen. We can segregate and lessen the non-biodegradable waste by improvising and recycling. We can encourage cigarette makers and smokers to stop, help make the world a better place for the next generations to come and be able to pass it so that our mother earth can live longer.

So don’t do to the environment, what you don’t want the environment to do to you and remember that prevention is better than cure!