Although many of us don't see the immediate affects of climate change and the changing carbon cycle, what we do now greatly impacts the lives of our children and grandchildren. Climate is the overall average of weather for an area, so just because the Midwest has increasingly harsh winters, doesn't mean that the climate isn't warming overall. Just because the climate is getting warming, doesn't mean that the trend can't be stopped. The burning of fossil fuels and deforestation and two major causes of greenhouse gas emissions that we can cut down on. If the world keeps carrying on at the same rate of creating greenhouse gases, scientists and estimated the effects on the climate by the end of the 21st century.
Surface temperature changes by end of 21st Century
Climate change has already affected the American society and economy when it comes to agriculture. Changing freezing and thawing times have caused many farmers to lose crops due to late freezes and this is a major loss of revenue for these people. The impoverished around the world also suffer because of climate change because they are the ones that are most vulnerable to the effects. They are the ones that will have decreased food supply, fewer places to live and work, as well as more vulnerable to diseases that attack the weak and hungry. Decades of efforts to move forward in decreasing poverty will never get anywhere if climate change keeps being put on the back burner.
World Bank's Open Learning Campus, 2014
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