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Discussion 1

My selected topic is climate change which is the long-term shifts in the temperature and weather patterns that could happen because of natural courses or human activities. After selection of the topic., I did a research for sources in the online library and found the following sources:

Book

Hill, A. C., & Martinez-Diaz, L. (2020). Building a resilient tomorrow: How to prepare for

the coming climate disruption. Oxford University Press.

The voice in this source is the voice of two authors who are committed to explain to its audience on the climate change and how the people should be cautious of climate change to keep the environment and climate safe not only for the current generations but also for future generations.

Popular press article

Shegerian, J. (2022, February 18). In solving one climate crisis, let's not create another:

Opinion. Newsweek. Retrieved February 25, 2022, from https://www.newsweek.com/solving-one-climate-crisis-lets-not-create-another-opinion-1680329

The voice is an opinion on the issue of renewable energy and the impact it has on the environment. According to the source the use of electric vehicles could create another issue of finding long lasting batteries for vehicles and this gave me a new insight to the issue.

Scholarly articles

Ashraf, S., AghaKouchak, A., Nazemi, A., Mirchi, A., Sadegh, M., Moftakhari, H. R.,

Hassanzadeh, E., Miao, C., Madani, K., Mousavi Baygi, M., Anjileli, H., Arab, D. R., Norouzi, H., Mazdiyasni, O., Azarderakhsh, M., Alborzi, A., Tourian, M. J., Mehran, A., Farahmand, A., & Mallakpour, I. (2018;2019;). Compounding effects of human activities and climatic changes on surface water availability in iran. Climatic Change, 152(3-4), 379-391

The voice is credible as it is the voice of a peer reviewed article written by various authors. The voice adds to the knowledge of how human activities affect climate change and helped me understand how we can protect the climate.

Morris, B. S., Chrysochou, P., Christensen, J. D., Orquin, J. L., Barraza, J., Zak, P. J.,

Mitkidis, P., & Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet. (2019). Stories vs. facts: Triggering emotion and action-taking on climate change. Climatic Change, 154(1-2), 19-36.

The voice is reliable and is the voice of a combination of authors that purpose to debunk the myths and stories related to climate change. It helps enlighten the people on the facts related to the issue of climate change; it helped me understand what I can do personally to protect our climate.

News source

Climate change: U.S. fish and wildlife service. Official Web page of the U S Fish and

Wildlife Service. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2022, from https://www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/

The voice in the source is that of sea life and helps use see climate change from the viewpoint of the aquatic life. The source contributes to the topi of conserving the wildlife and has helped me understand the effects of the human activities on species of sea animals.

Internet source

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, February 24). Climate change. Wikipedia. Retrieved

February 25, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

The source talks about climate change including the causes and effects of climate change and the voice of the source represents the general perspective of the communities towards climate change. It contributes so much to the topic of climate change but is not reliable just because of the fact that it is an internet source.

Nontraditional source

The disarming case to act right now on climate ... - youtube. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25,

2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY

The voice in the video is the video of a 12-year-old and is a call to action. The voice represents the perspective of a 12-year-old towards the sustainability crisis and the need by humans to change their lives to stop the damage to the climate. This contributes so much to the causes of climate change and the voice is credible.

Discussion 2

Hornsey, Matthew J., and Kelly S. Fielding. "Understanding (and reducing) inaction on climate change." Social Issues and Policy Review 14.1 (2020): 3-35.

This article talks about the human activities that result into climate change. The article mentions how activities such as increased industrialization is the reason as to why the climate change is accelerating. According to the authors the lack of control of the emissions on household and industry activities affects the greenhouse gases level; the more the level of greenhouse gases the higher the temperatures and hence the climate change and global warming that threatens our lives and the lives of generations to come.

Nunn, P. D., & Kumar, R. (2019). Cashless adaptation to climate change: unwelcome yet

unavoidable?. One Earth, 1(1), 31-34.

The article talks about how much climate change is undesired, unwelcomed but still unavoidable. It explains how the issue of climate change though a great concern to the communities and activists has gotten to a point where there are no human efforts that could help reduce the extent of damage or reverse the issue.

Comparison

The two articles selected are both peer-reviewed and hence credible sources. The two sources however have different insights and thoughts on the topic. The first source is a call to action where the authors believe that humans should change their ways to avoid the climate change. The second article on the other hand suggests that the issue of climate change is beyond humans and that no efforts whatsoever could save us from it.

Works cited

Hornsey, Matthew J., and Kelly S. Fielding. "Understanding (and reducing) inaction on

climate change." Social Issues and Policy Review 14.1 (2020): 3-35.

Nunn, P. D., & Kumar, R. (2019). Cashless adaptation to climate change: unwelcome yet

unavoidable?. One Earth, 1(1), 31-34.