Monday, January 19, 2009

Global Warming and Poverty

What is the influence of global warming to poverty? Of course there is. We first see what the causes and consequences of global warming.

According to the Fourth Assessment Report, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reported that 90% human activity during the last 250 years to make the earth hot. IPCC also concluded that 90% of greenhouse gases produced by the human, such as carbon dioxide, metana, oxide and nitrous oxide, especially during these 50 years, dramatically increase the temperature of Earth. Before the industry, human activity does not issue a lot of greenhouse gases, but growing population, illegal logging, livestock industry, and the use of fossil fuels cause the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increases, and contribute to the global warming.

The cause of global warming is carbon emissions from human activities, namely:
1. Animal Husbandry (The use of fossil fuels in the farm accounts for 90 million tons of CO2 each year, diesel or LPG example, over the land used for farming accounts for 2.4 billion tons of CO2 each year)
2. Of Energy (energy sector is an important source of greenhouse gases, especially because the energy generated from fossil fuels, like oil, gas, and coal).
3. Industry (Donations to the industrial sector emissions of greenhouse gases to reach 19.4%. Most of the industrial sector is derived from the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity or the production of C02 directly as part of the production process, for example in the production of cement. Almost all greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial sector comes from the iron industry, steel, chemicals, fertilizer, cement, glass, ceramics, and paper).
4. Agriculture, illegal logging, transportation, commercial buildings and trash.

The causes of various factors, global warming caused the increase in surface air temperature at the earth and sea, which then give the impact of climate change.

Climate change is happening so that the failed harvest decrease of agricultural production and enhance food commodity prices. Many fishermen who can not catch fish because of high waves. The supply of food commodities, the more limited and more and more people who lost their jobs (from agricultural land and sea), lead to the occurrence of hunger in many places and of course the number of poor people around the world was increasing.

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