Persuasion speech

Persuasion Speech on Climate Change
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Persuasive Speech on Climate Change
Human beings release 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide gas every 364 days. The average person on a daily basis exhales almost 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide. The current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have already exceeded the levels in the last one hundred years (UN environment, 2018). Does anyone still think that the concerns about climate change are merely hot air? Think again! This persuasive speech will argue that climate change is a critical global threat to the environment and immediate action must be undertaken to reverse the trend.
Human activities are among the significant factors to contribute to the warming of the global climate in the last 50 years. Such human activities involve deforestation, change in agricultural methods and burning the fossil fuels. The activities cause the release of billions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere forming a layer that captures heat that would escape into space (UN environment, 2018). The phenomenon is known as the greenhouse effect, which causes an increase in temperature resulting in more flood, intense rain as well as more frequent and severe waves of heat among other changes to the climate. Scientists have found that temperatures levels in the current century are the highest since 1880. Such changes present challenges to both the society and environment such as effects on human health, agriculture, transport, and power systems.

For instance, flooding paralyzes transport systems in countries while also predisposing human beings to water-borne diseases.
Several intervention mechanisms can be applied across fields of science, technology, and policy among others to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. Countries should initiate development projects that emit low levels of greenhouse gases while at the same time boosting that capacity to adapt and develop resiliency to climate changes (UN environment, 2018). They should also take advantage of investment opportunities that minimize emission of greenhouse gases, activities that decrease forest cover and degradation. Further, global economies should support the development of new finance models that speed the transition to a green economy.
In conclusion, every member of the society has a role to play in bringing to end global warming and other harmful effects on climate change. The persistent rise in temperature in the future may lead to the extinction of living things from the earth due to high temperatures. If human beings participate in the control and mitigation of global warming, they will achieve a decrease in temperatures resulting in a colder climate. Consequently, the world would become a safer place to live.
References
UN environment. (2018). Climate change. Retrieved from https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change