Author: ej2305a

• The debate or controversy that I am writing about is the negative effects climate change can have on society and how the threat has increased due to the countries’ inabilities to sustain it along side the new global pandemic Covid-19. It is also important to understand that in order to truly make a change it is extremely important for countries to work together.

• The Debate in this Topic is on Global leaders committing to the fight against climate change and global warming. All countries will be affected by this catastrophe not only physically but also economically. However, the countries that will be affected the most are those who are already currently struggling. This is the same position developing countries face with the Coronavirus as many do not know how they will be able to sustain their economy.

DOI: 10.37473/dac/10.1101/2020.03.15.20036418

DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.545

DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781529203950.003.0004

• In this debate, I believe that is crucial for countries to understand the threat we find ourselves in and how the leaders of the world must step up in an effort to mitigate both of these catastrophes. If this is far from being possible, we should learn to adapt and live in a world with both climate change and the coronavirus whilst making an effort to avoid both from being more fatal than they already have been.

• My position is important because it helps us understand/know that both of climate change and the Coronavirus are not forces to be reckoned with. Additionally, we must plan to address climate change with the same intensity we are undertaking the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/paris-agreement-climate-change-latin-america.html

This is the article I originally found for my Op-ed which inspired me to talk about climate change in Latin America. The Paris Agreement is crucial for the countries of the world to make an effort of fighting climate change, however, it is even more crucial for developing countries. The Article talk’s about Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement and the negative effect that will have on Latin American countries. Moreover, “Latin American and Caribbean countries are highly vulnerable. A significant rise in global temperatures could lead to reduced arable land, the loss of low-lying islands and coastal regions, and more extreme weather events in many of these countries.” These countries cannot afford to neglect climate change nor its catastrophic effects. I can tell this is an Op-ed because it uses a lot of pathos to stress the importance of how treacherous this decision could be. They are going against the decision their own president made, furthermore, contradicting what he believes to be right. The use of logos also alarms the reader about the dangers they face. It is different from all the other documents I have seen as it is very opinion based and biased.

Why is it that no one has reacted towards climate change like they have towards the coronavirus? Climate change has brought tremendous amounts of casualties and yet people have not been working towards eradicating it as they have this new pandemic. I feel like, and the First op-ed stresses this, that the people have not realized the tremendous danger we are in and the importance of climate change. I think that when people started to realize the impact climate change was having on the world, was when the wildfires started breaking out in Australia and the Amazon. Donations and action plans were made, however, no future plan to prevent it. Most consider this a natural disaster believing it is inevitable when it isn’t. There is so much we can do to help prevent it. Accordingly, “We are certainly under-reacting to climate change,” said Ed Maibach, a professor at George Mason University who studies climate change and public health, in an email. “Because it is a potentially catastrophic health threat that is likely to greatly harm human health and wellbeing for many generations to come,” and if we don’t do it for us, we should be doing it for them.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324847#long-term-impact

I liked this source because it describes the long term as well as short term effects of fast food and references many research I can use on my own paper

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772793/

I chose this source because I want to focus one of my paragraphs specifically on the effects fast foods have on the heart.

For my third source I will use the movie “What The Health” as it is very descriptive and helpful in advocating the negative impact fast food has on our bodies.