Consequently, global warming is not seen as a priority in our everyday lives and a door of opportunity is left wide open for global warming to spread rapidly. .
Look at Greenland - for example - who has the potential to have sea levels raised about 20 feet if glaciers melt completely. Greenhouse gas emission, on its current pace, will deteriorate any remainder of Greenland's ice sheet in just a few decades (Kolbert p.55). Another example of climate change is in the island of Sarichef, Alaska, where Inuit people have already had to relocate due to flooding caused by rising sea levels. But where's these stories in the news? If there was a higher priority to make light of the effects of global warming, I think more people would truly understand the devastation that is occurring in communities around the world. It takes effort, but it is that same little effort here and there that will help humans solve the global warming crisis. .
In the last 20 years, the average global temperature has raised 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, species around the earth have adapted. Mating seasons are now earlier and last longer due to warmer temperatures in the late winter. Droughts are a more common occurrence. According to the San Jose Mercury News, "California's current drought is driest period in the state's 163 years of recorded rainfall history." Clearly global warming is a problem and could become an even bigger problem if humans, as a whole, continue to view it as somewhat irrelevant to their lives. As society marches on, people's time will continue to shrink, which means even less time from developing a viable solution to purify and balance out the environment. .
Besides the difficulties of time scale, global scale has its own problems that make the finalization of a solution almost intangible. It is unrealistic for people to think we can address everyone's environmental needs when not even one country has mastered and solved the climate change problem within its own borders.
