Introduction
Scientists argue that the problem of global warming can no longer be wished away. From health effects to businesses, rising sea levels and affecting urbanization, it is about time. The society ought to act right now; otherwise, irreparable damage to the ecosystem may happen sooner. The United Nations Youth Climate Summit that took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York brought together aimed to better the environment. The event was a part of a weekend of plans that lead to the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit. The event gave a platform for young climate action leaders to show their solutions at the UN and engage decision-makers on the issue of global warming. The road to the summit began with a visit from the secretary general’s envoy on youth to New York briefing civil society leaders on plans for youth engagement. The UN Secretary-General engaged with young leaders and civil society representatives. He meets with Greta Thunberg, a young climate activist before the big summit, and is inspired to call for urgency and raise ambition to increase climate action.
Amazon Fires
Artemisa Xakriaba, a young indigenous climate activist from Brazil, spoke about the Amazon fires. The Amazon fire spreads each year because of the government and its destructive policies that trigger deforestation and drought, and this doesn’t just happen in the Amazon only. The other five Brazilian biomes are also affected. The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires investigate the cause of the fires that happen within Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. They reported that the fires usually occur around the dry season as slash and burn methods are used to clear the forest to pave the way for agricultural activities. The total number of fires is 40000 today. Thehe cause is not known. The act of slashing down the forests is illegal, but enforcement of environmental protection can be lax. Citizens residing in these nations are suffering, but the government will not take the necessary measures due to their selfish agendas to better themselves.
The greatness of each global warming effect relies upon the aggregate decisions just as subtleties. for example, the specific distri,ct and the individuals that live there. howeverer, together, the scope of effects makes an environmental change one of the most earnest issues confronting humankind today. Higher temperatures connect to practically all of the environmental change's most extreme effects, including increasingly visit and extraordinary heatwaves, across the board crop disappointments, and sensational moves in creature and plant ranges. As the world warms, ice sheets and icy masses dissolve, and seawater extends. The temperature increase delivers an ocean level ascent, which can upset and harm beach front networks and foundation in basically every ocean circumscribing nation on the planet. Environmental change is likewise making extraordinary climate progressively serious and, at times, increasingly normal. For instance, hotter air and seas are creating increasingly outrageous typhoons, with record-breaking measures of downpour and wind.
A talk on cleanliness by Autumn Peltier sheds light on those present at the summit. Being the Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner, she advocates the need to clean water before consuming it. She looks back at her homeland in Canada, where communities not far from where she lives have boil water advisories. Despite false promises from the government to solve the shortcoming, liberals have not made a dent in the first nation water crisis (Hillary Beaumont, 2017). A report from last year shows that there were 133 water advisories on reserves, but today they are 132. If this is all that was done, the problem of global warming will increase instead of the situation getting better. Justin Trude,au after being elected to power and promising to end boil water advisories, within five years, the government has failed to fulfill the prime minister’s promise (Freedman, 2009). The response to why no action was taken is that indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, 11 water advisories have been solved. Out of the 11, six are said to have undrinkable water by Health Canada. The remaining ones, the water is still undrinkable. The government blamed Health Canada for not being up to date when the VICE news wanted to know why there was a discrepancy. The fact remains that the boil water advisories erode trust in the safety of the water coming from the taps and resolving one boil water advisory doesn’t mean that the water is clean and safe to drink across the entire reserve.
Five of the world’s major economies violate human rights and little, or no action has been taken for the climate crisis, failing to objectify their emission reduction targets in their Paris Agreement Pledges. While delivering his speech, Carl Smith, a member of the Yuqiaq Tribe of Alaska spoke of how he has witnessed climate change. The oceans are his area of interest. He said it got so hot during the summer that fish started to float on water dead. The changing planet and rise in temperatures every day is difficult to live with. In Alaska, as the lands rise, the sea level is sinking (Cornella, 2009). The land is ascending so fast due to tons of glacial weight being relieved from it and the rising sea experience high temperatures hence getting hotter by the day. Greenland experience the same effects due to the melting of glaciers more than 100 years ago. The change causes unusual environmental challenges; water dries in the long run as is replaced by land hence shifting property boundaries causing conflicts on who owns what acres of land. This has affected the area businesswise since boats cannot regularly sail along Gastineau Channel. These possess a greater risk to the oceans, the people around and the problem needs to be addressed immediately.
Conclusion
Despite global warming posing as a risk factor in the current world, only five percent of the world’s population is made up of indigenous people who are willing and risk there life to protect more than 80 percent of the entire population. These people face direct consequences of climate change daily hence the need to be heard and included in climate activism. If the goal is to achieve change and call for help from all over the world, mobilization should include all people across socie. Humans influence on the climate system is clear as they cause global warming. Emissions of greenhouse gases are reported to be the highest ever in history. Changing a light, recycling, planting trees and avoiding products with a lot of packaging are things we humans need to do to reduce global warming.
