Climate Change is Real, and Most People Don’t Know It Exists.

Over five-hundred stories are uploaded on Instagram, five-hundred million tweets tweeted on Twitter, three-hundred and fifty million pieces of content posted on Facebook, three-hundred million videos on uploaded on YouTube each passing day, and yet, on the contrary, a monumental threat that bears the potential of ending our beloved mother Earth alongside the human race itself called ‘Climate Change’ is barely being talked about.

For those uneducated on the topic, the phrase ‘Climate Change’ refers to the ever-increasing temperature of our Earth which leads back to the more commonly known ‘Greenhouse Effect’. The greenhouse effect premises of the trapping of the Sun’s heat by the Earth’s atmosphere; this is caused by the emission of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and several fluorinated gases. Following the revolution of mankind and technology, it is but inevitable, however, what’s alarming isn’t necessarily based on the change of temperature, but even more so due to the rapidity of it occurring.

A plethora of economists have described climate change as a market failure: This is due to its core component being greenhouse gas emissions, which in most cases, is an inevitable result of economically valuable activities. Those responsible for such activities bear no negative adversary as those of future generations and developing (labor-intense) countries are the most likely unintended suitors of the effects of climate change.

Money is the sole provider of the impetus for economic activities, though some may argue that they seek happiness and fulfillment rather than greed infested cash grab, the majority fall into the latter. That being said, lowering greenhouse gas emissions means lowering production rates. Looking at this situation at a mass scale, a significant increase in production cost is at stake with no clear economical value for the present. What this means is that climate change is not (maybe not yet) an economical issue, it is to be what is considered as an ethical issue. Producers and consumers alike are not at a loss, third parties are.

In the capitalist-centric world, we inhabit today, there are no agendas to increase the cost for the benefit of the mere third party. Why would they raise their stakes with no returns? It’s as simple as that.

Low carbon technologies and methods have surely been introduced, however, its financial accessibility and no early returns to the society is what makes it extremely difficult to establish through market forces alone. Adding insult to injury, there are close to no innovation incentives to solve our impending conflict.

Coming to our conclusion, there just aren’t any clear obligations for the market to spread the information of climate change if anything it’ll only set the market backward. Thus, it is our responsibility, not as producers, not as consumers, and not as the third party, but as humans to give back to our planet. Read this with a stroke of empathy and spread the word, whether it be through social media or conversation, we need to start acting and start now.

Let the world know what the world is facing.