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COMMITMENT OF USA TO PARIS AGREEMENT

Danielle Schummer

G328/EVR3410 Human Uses of the Environment

According to my thinking, the United States of America should commit itself to the Paris agreement. It will enable the country to contribute the maximum to environmental conservation. The country should make efforts in committing itself to the Paris agreement as it has brought nations from the entire world into a common cause. Thus undertaking the needed ambitions for combating the climatic change and accordingly adapting the possible effects and challenges experienced by each country and coming up with solutions to help the developing countries to withstand the problems encountered.

The agreement will, therefore, chart a new course in the global climate efforts which will help in safeguarding the welfare of the people's health (Maslin, 2007). The United States of America should, again, commit itself to the agreement as its made to strengthen the global responses to the threats brought by adverse climatic changes by developing favorable global temperature rise in the century, for the world to experience a 2 degrees Celsius decrease in the industrialized areas. According to the Paris agreement, the countries, as a whole, should develop different efforts to ensure that the nations experience a 2 degrees Celsius temperature drop. The deal is significant in that it will strengthen countries’ abilities to deal with the results brought by climatic changes as it is realized that it is changing in every century.

The United States committing itself to the deal will again enable it to oversee more developments in the country as a specific financial flow should be witnessed, new technologies developed, and an enhanced capacity building framework brought into existence which will support the actions of the nation by promoting them invulnerable and reliable nations, thus meeting their set objectives (NSTC, 2008). The Paris deal has again provided enough transparency of the efforts by each state and developed a very clear framework for the nations to fight the effects of climate change within a set period.

According to my understanding, we can experience global warming as a result of continued air pollution and increased industrialization by many countries in the world. As the days go by, many industries are constructed and a mechanism is not put in place to protect the polluted air from entering the atmosphere. On the other hand, the Paris agreement has impacted my stand on global warming as it has enabled me to realize that different countries can come together thus developing mechanisms objectively to reduce the occurrence of global warming.

As a result of global warming water resources have been affected, leading to a decline in irrigation supplies. This occurs due to the loss of the mountain snowpack hence reducing the amounts of water for the irrigation activities (Philander, 2012). However, global warming will contaminate the underground water, leading to the death of different organisms (Encyclopedia, 2010). Again, power supply sources will be disrupted, leading to low power production within a given period. This will occur due to the shrinking mountain glaciers. Thus the electricity generations will be profoundly affected. Lastly, global warming concerns water resources by changing the recreational points. The effects on recreation will come as result of the reduced snowpack brought by the continuous pollution in the atmosphere. The spring snowmelt will affect winter sports hence the costs of the recreational points will be affected.

References

Encyclopedia of global warming. (2010). Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press.

Philander, S. G. (2012). Encyclopedia of global warming & climate change. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications.

National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)., & Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). (2008). Scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Science and Technology Council (U.S.), Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Maslin, M. (2007). Global warming. Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press.