Summary of "A Scary Year for Climate Change"

In the article, “A Scary Year for Climate Change”, Russell (2019) stated that political leaders should commit to set strategies to solve climate change because ecosystem and economic development are in threat. The author explained few critical aspects of the increasingly warmer planet such as how it hampers human life, its prosperity and how the changes in the earth’s climate is driven by human activities particularly fossil fuel burning, which increases the global temperature. Russell (2019) also reported that the use of fossil fuels in the last few decades has also affected world economic growth. However, she suggested that sustainable land management, technological transformation, and mitigation strategies can prevent global warming. Russell (2019) observed some of the obstacles to solve climate change are a lack of leadership and lack of people’s belief. She concluded that fighting climate change requires immediate support from wealthy countries and influential global leaders.

References

Russell, C. (2019, November 2). A scary year for climate change. Scientific American. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-scary-year-for-climate-change