An article “Environmental Problems: Global Disasters Waiting to Happen” in the June 2018 release of this website discusses evidence that global warming (or climate change) is definitely occurring. The increase in the world’s average temperature will have tremendous impacts on the livelihood of essentially all localities across the globe. If we don’t take appropriate actions now, these problems are serious and could become insurmountable 50, 100 years from now. These insurmountable problems will be faced by our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren due to the actions or in-actions that our leaders adopt today. impacts such as:
- More drought and flooding across the whole globe
- Less ice and snow resulting in insufficient water for areas that depend on melting ice and snow from mountains
- More extreme weather incidents resulting in more deadly heat waves, violent rainfalls, and severe storms
- Rising sea level, resulting in massive flooding along every coast.
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement is a symbol of hope that the leaders of the world are wise enough to recognize the problem and start to initiate actions to address the problem. [1] Unfortunately, our current president of the U.S., Donald Trump, has already announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
The next critical question is whether global warming is due mostly to human activities. In other words, if global warming is due mostly to natural phenomena or is a historical trend of our planetary system, then there may not be much we as humans can do about it. This article discusses evidence from scientific analysis that global warming during the last 100+ years is primarily due to human activities.
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Trump Legacy: Changing Standard for Assessing a Political Leader
Donald Trump has been the President of the U.S. for less than 18 months, but his behavior and public statements already have an adverse impact on one important aspact of the American government and society. His frequent outright lies, on almost every subject under the sun, have desensitized people, other government leaders, and the media so that such outright lies are no longer that important as an assessment of whether a political leader should be criticized, or should even remain in office. It is as though they have been vaccinated against being affected by these lies. This article discusses some examples and implications.
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