Nature's Wake-Up Call

   

I'm gonna talk about what is meant by nature's wake-up call. I think I should talk about this one, right now we are experiencing a climate and ecological crisis, which is really in a severe state. We have been lulled by the universe for too long. The earth has given us everything we want that we asked for, until we are at a point where the earth is getting tired of fulfilling all human's unlimited desires, and we are totally being ignorant. However, many people who do not know about this, are not aware or do not even care. So I want to make them aware of this, make them wake up, and do something about it.

1. Summers and winters keep getting warmer

Global Climate Report - January 2019

Global warming is not a mere issue, but it has an impact on the earth's current temperature. Summer and winter are increasingly showing increasing temperatures. Several countries in the hemisphere report heat waves. In 2018, the UK has had a summer break since 2006. This shows that the current heatwave is 30 times that of the previous season. Not only occurs in summer, but temperature increases also occur in winter. on February 26, 2019, the temperature showed 21.2 degrees Celsius recorded at Kew Gardens London. It was the hottest winter day in England.

2. Biodiversity is threatened, flora and fauna and their habitats are also threatened

Global patterns of terrestrial vertebrate diversity and conservation

I'm just going to take a few small examples that occur in Australia. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is damaged by global warming. Research results reveal that warm water affects coral reproduction. "The number of new corals in the Great Barrier Reef decreased by 89% after the loss of adult corals due to global warming in 2016 and 2017. Oh yes if you want to know, What is coral bleaching? Corals have a symbiotic relationship with small seaweed called ' zooxanthellae "that live in and care for corals. When sea surface temperature rises, algal corals come out of the corals. The loss of algae causes corals to bleach. Also, what their effects are on animals. possum, cannot even survive a day at temperatures above 29 degrees Celsius, the temperature recorded at Mount Bartle Frere is 39 degrees Celsius, and this results in wet tropical species being under threat of extinction.

3. Shrinking Ice Sheets

Antartica Mass Variation

Alaskan glaciers experience surface melting. Alaskan glaciers melting 100 times faster than previously thought. They calculated that glaciers melt underwater at speeds of almost 5 feet per day in May and up to 16 feet per day in August. Then in season, warmer water increases underwater thawing. Usually, less than 6 degrees Celsius, the water in LeConte Bay is relatively warm to ice, and even to other fjords around the world. Greenland is experiencing surface melting and melting of Tidewater Glaciers. The same thing happened in Greenland, the area lost an annual ice four times greater than what happened in 2003.

Now research is finding more worrying that the Greenland Ice The sheet has undergone rapid and irreversible changes. From 2010 to 2018, ice loss averaged 290 gigatons per year. If all of the Greenland Ice Sheet melts, the global sea level will rise by about 20 feet or 6 meters. Rising sea levels make the area around the coastline at greater risk of flooding, erosion, and the danger of large storms. This reminds me of the reason for moving the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to Kalimantan, because of environmental issues. Jakarta will be predicted to sink by 2050 due to massive flooding near the coast.

4. Tropical Diseases

Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease

Climate change can cause tropical diseases to spread globally. Dengue is the world's fastest-growing mosquito-borne virus, currently killing some 10,000 people and affecting around 100 million per year. As global temperatures are rising, Aedes aegypti mosquitos that carry the disease could thrive in places that were previously unsuitable for them and benefit from shorter incubation periods. A recent study published in the scientific journal Nature warned that, in a warming world, dengue could spread to the US, higher altitudes in central Mexico, inland Australia and to large coastal cities in eastern China and Japan. Even what happened recently is a case of dengue fever in Sri Lanka, the outbreak nearly killed 300 people.

5. The amount of forest is getting smaller

I will say again that climate change and global warming will cause natural forest fires, apart from human forest fires for industry and agriculture. When forest areas burn, carbon that takes decades to store is immediately released back into the atmosphere. Tropical deforestation is now responsible for 11 percent of the world's CO2 emissions - is considered a country, tropical deforestation would be the third-largest emitter after China and the US. We can recall the forest fires that occurred in California which left 77 people dead.

God has arranged nature so well and systematically, but nature still does not improve itself automatically if it continues to be hurt by humans. Nature in its time will become fragile. But what can we do as humans? I don't want to be grandiose to say that in the future, we can live without a good nature, but who can guarantee that? So, from now on, I hope we all realize what we should be doing. Only need to start from a small thing. And it seems we all understand enough what we have to do for it. This is happening now, not in the future, and requires an immediate response. But of course it's never too late, we still have time.