Global Companies Joining Climate Change Efforts

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                             Global Companies Joining Climate Change Efforts

Global warming is a problem that is facing the world at the moment. Efforts are being made to ensure that there is a reduced damage of the environment that will lead to a reduced effect of the global calamity. Following the campaign that the united states of America’s global firms have started against the use of fossil fuel that greatly affects the environment, more and more firms are joining hands. A report carried out by the New York Times editors express that firms with multi-trillion dollar capital such as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Walmart, and Goldman Sachs have expressed their solidarity towards the campaign (Gillis and Fleur). Their reaction is a huge step towards a successful eradication of the global warming that is affecting a lot of species around the globe.

Global warming is a subject that is going around in every nation. Industrialization has greatly contributed to this menace. As firms use the fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal to run their machines, carbon dioxide is released into the air. This air rises into the atmosphere where it reacts with the ozone layer. When the ozone is depleted, a harmful ray from the sun enters the earth leading to high temperatures and other diseases such as cancer on the human skin. The high temperature also makes the ice in the glaciated world to melt. When this ice melts, the flow towards the sea leading to the rise of the sea level. Therefore, floods become usual phenomena I countries bordering the seas and oceans.

A campaign against the use of fossil fuels will be critical in fighting global warming. The campaign involves the change of industrial structure so that renewable energy such as electricity, the wind and solar energy among others comes to play. When this happens, the emission of harmful gases will be minimized. Hence, global warming will be reduced.

         

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Gillis, Justin and Nicholas St. Fleur. "Global Companies Joining Climate Change Efforts." 23 09 2015. New York Times. 23 09 2015 <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/science/global-companies-joining-climate-change-efforts.html>.