Expanish Volunteer Blog
Climate Change at the End of the World? Help in the Fight Against Global Warming While Abroad in Argentina.
In the past few decades, the world has seen an unprecedented climate change, also known as Global Warming, a topic that has taken the world by storm and is literally forcing us to change or be changed.
Whether you are volunteering in Argentina or living back in your home country, some common questions across the board are as such:
- ‘Are we actually being affected by climate change, or is it just media hype?’
- ‘I can’t see the damage, is it really that bad?”
- “Will I even be alive to see the affects of climate change?”
Interested in the answers to these questions?
- The latest report from the World Conservation Union stated that 40% of the world’s species are being threatened… Global warming being the main culprit. The entire world has reported severe damages from natural disasters over the past few decades with the highest death rates ever recorded. Human deaths are on the rise due allergies, heat waves, and most of all disease, mostly thanks to climate change.
- Greenland is melting, the glaciers are disappearing, grass is growing in the Antarctic, oceans are becoming acidic due to chemicals from eroded rocks, rivers are drying up, and animal and plant species are dying. Perhaps these are not things you see on a daily base as they are not taking place in your backyard…but it doesn’t mean they are not there.
- In the next 50-70 years, scientists predict to lose the majority of the world’s glaciers, to see wine production fall due to harvesting problems, ski mountains will close due to little or no snow, the number of salmon will decrease by 90% by 2090, polar bears will be almost extinct by 2050, deaths from smog will raise by 80% by 2030, poverty will rise 50% by 2050 due food and water scarcity, and the list goes on. If you will be alive in the next 50 years, you will be up to your ears in climate change problems.
More information can be found at: The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming
Questions like the ones above are not the fault of people, but they are the fault of ignorance. One way or another, last night’s soccer game or today’s traffic new cast is taking over the importance of issues such as climate change and until we begin place these words in the mouths of every global resident, climate change and global warming will indeed be unavoidable.
No matter where you are in the world, the best way for climate prevention is to spread the word. Write to the government, take part in local climate change committees, and most of all stay informed. Whether you are studying Spanish in Buenos Aires with Expanish or not, we ask you take climate change seriously and begin to help in the fight against global warming.
