Whilst the Earth’s climate has changed over the course of its history, the current speed of warming is not at the same rate than the past ten thousand years. This is mostly caused by human made pollutants, such as carbon dioxide emissions from factories, traffic and the increasing use of fossil fuels.

In the upcoming years, food and water insecurity will increase massively due to places getting too hot for crops to grows and the water will evaporate. This does not help when you consider that the world’s population has reached eight billion people recently, which will cause the atmosphere to heat up even further. 

The Artic ice has become 65% thinner than it was in 1975: this causes countries, such as the Maldives and Tuvalu, currently finding themselves at war with the ocean as the sea levels rising sinking their islands. Tuvalu’s foreign minister has recently made a speech knee deep into water to show the impacts of climate change. In the next few decades, these islands will most likely sink if we do not take action.

We do not have to wait for our governments to do something, we can do something small every day to help reduce the impacts. For example, recycle more (this will conserve energy, reduce air and water pollution) and use other ways to get from place to place (instead of using your car, walk or take public transport). This might not seem a big deal for you or not help, but it is having a big impact on the environment around you.

Recently, the Clean Air Act was proposed by the government in March 2022 to improve the air quality around the UK. However, by doing this there was an out roar throughout Manchester stopping the rollout of it by May: as Andy Burnham did not think Manchester could achieve the goals set, which will undergo serious changes and the act was being enforced too quickly leaving people no time to sort out how they were going to go around it.