English 101

For your research paper, you may want to explore the link listed below, or you can choose a topic of your own. Remember that you are writing a persuasive paper that includes arguments where you defend one side of the debate, so make sure your topic is an appropriate topic for a persuasive paper.

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Which is more Prudent, Mitigation, or Adaptation in Climate Change?

When it comes to handling climate change, and by extension, global warming, two strategies can be applied, mitigation or adaptation. Measures to mitigate comprises actions aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and therefore refer to dealing with the causes. In contrast, efforts to adapt are actions aiming to reduce vulnerability to the effects of the change and address a reaction to the impacts (IPCC.ch). The World Economic Forum Global Risks Report of 2016 reports that failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be “the most impactful risk” facing the world in the coming years, worse than the water crisis and weapons of mass destruction (World Economic Forum).

While adaptation is local and almost private with immediate and evident benefits, mitigation is global and public. Its effects have far much-reaching consequences making the frontrunner of the two (IPCC.ch). Mitigation also brings about the economy variable, where many rich countries bear the resources and choose to reduce emissions and benefit the entire world or adapt and leave others behind (Rodney 2016). Unsuccessful mitigation measures mean that other generations receive a broken world, thereby compromising on rights we hold so dear, such as the right to life, liberty, and security, particularly for champions of democracy and human rights such as the United States of America. Scientifically, choosing to adapt will only serve for a short while. Greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere from automobiles and factories, and the earth’s surface continues to warm up. Ice on the Polar Regions melts in an irreversible process releasing gigatons of heat and trapping methane, which further accumulated more natural greenhouse gases and increased atmospheric temperatures even further in a continuous destructive loop irreversible. By this point, any attempt to adapt will be rendered useless against the severe impacts of climate change to the levels of extinction of a variety of species on the earth’s surface. The world must mitigate greenhouse emissions as fast as possible before irreversible consequences become dire (Rodney 2016).

Works Cited

IPCC.ch. Climate Change 2014. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Retrieved on 29^th October 2020 from https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/ar5_wgII_spm_en-1.pdf

IPCC.ch. Mitigation of Climate Change from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, page 4. Retrieved on 29^th October 2020 from https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_summary-for-policymakers.pdf

Rodney J. Keenan, Craig Nitschke. (2016) Forest management options for adaptation to climate change: a case study of tall, wet eucalypt forests in Victoria’s Central Highlands region. Australian Forestry 79 96-107.

World Economic Forum. The Global Risks Report 2016 11^th Edition. Retrieved on 29^th October 2020 from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GRR/WEF_GRR16.pdf