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The word "climate
change" indicates the continuing rise in global temperature brought on
by anthropogenic activities like the burning of fossil fuels and forest
degradation. Fluctuations in weather patterns, rising sea levels, and more life-threatening
weather events such as heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes result from temperature
rise. Shifting habitats and not making them sustainable for animals and plants
to adapt can have harmful effects on the natural world.
Climatic changes and the loss of biodiversity are the most depressing
environmental problems that our planet is challenging at the moment. They are interlinked
and have a substantial influence on the well-being and health of the various species
that live in our planet's flora and fauna. Overfishing, pollution, habitat
destruction, and species invasion are all potential causes of unexpected atmospheric
changes. These losses can have an impact
on the ability of all species to survive and biodiversity loss can have a severe
effect on ecosystems.
Climate change exacerbates the effects of habitat destruction and pollution
making it even more difficult for species to adapt and survive and biodiversity
loss goes hand in hand with climate change. Such as, changing weather patterns
and rising temperatures can make it hard for plants and animals to search for food
and shelter. Furthermore, coastal habitats are also inundated due to sea levels
rising and damaging the homes of numerous species. The species and habitats are
not the only ones on which climatic changes and biodiversity loss have an
impact but also they put substantially affect human well-being.
We, humans, must take steps to minimize climate change rate and
reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to tackle these problems by converting to
renewable energy sources, enhancing energy efficiency, and financing carbon
capture technology, protected areas, and sustainable land use this can be
accomplished judiciously. We must also take steps to lessen pollution, restore
habitats, develop protected areas, sustainable land and fisheries management
practices, and control the spread of invasive species.
The World Wide Fund has produced LivingPlanet Index 2022 which indicates that animal populations have reduced by
69% since 1970. And many reports suggest that pollinatorsare essential to almost 75% of the world's crops, but their numbers are
also declining. Even if we stopped all environmental destructions and the extreme
use of fertilizers and pesticides around the world unchecked warming would
still impact many species to go extinct. Even though fossil fuel emissions are
eliminated instantly such as deforestation and plastic pollution it would continue
to wreak disaster on the natural world.