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Climate Change Persuasive Essay

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Climate change is the most dangerous threat to the people of this planet, but it is the poorest, most vulnerable people who will experience the harshest consequences. Those located in the developing nations are exponentially more vulnerable than even the least fortunate citizens lucky enough to live in developed countries. It is these people, when faced with their regional climate change effects, which will allow the richest citizens of the world to profit from their misery. The neoliberal model that has emerged has created a system that privatizes the services once provided and funded by the government, and it is this economic model that has given rise to disaster capitalism. It is because of this reason that I believe climate change is denied …show more content…

Thermal expansion and the melting of continental ice sheets and glaciers are raising sea levels. Predictions are complicated with this issue because as the atmosphere absorbs more and more greenhouse gases the faster the melting will occur. When only 1% of the three largest ice bodies on Earth melt, the Greenland ice sheet, the west Antarctic ice sheet, and the east Antarctic ice sheet, there is a sea level rise of 76 cm, which is not including the melt runoff from smaller glaciers and ice sheets all over the world. Now this is simply a rise in the water level, however combining sea level rise with land subsidence will amplify flooding (subsidence is the sinking of continental land which occurs after subduction zone earthquakes, ground water over use, and has many other causes). Every coast line will change, flooding the most populated and dangerous areas, I say dangerous because nuclear power plants are built on the coasts to access sea water for facility cooling and catastrophic damage will add additional poisons and toxic nuclear waste that will travel around the planet. (SkepticalScience). In 2008 there is an estimated 20 million climate refugees, as these events continue it is projected that there will be 200 million climate refugees by the year 2050.

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