Reason for despair: Denial of climate change, inaction revolving around its indisputable reality, and reduced education in the fight for climate change mitigation are a few reasons to despair over such a global, environmental epidemic. Those who refuse to acknowledge that humans are majorly, or at least partially, responsible for the rise in the global temperature, the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the reduction of glacial ice, for example, pose more of a hazard to Earth than any other entity on the planet. We are seeing global warming at an unprecedented level, and it will continue to worsen with any communal, definitively blind refutation revolving around its grave existence or any other assertion maintaining that humans bear no responsibility over Earth’s welfare and its increasingly fragile condition. I numbingly despair over those who deny climate change and its effects on our dear planet.
Reasons to hope: With the COP21 and other efforts to educate the world, encourage political action, and seek global solidarity in the fight to reduce climate change, I have hope that we will achieve a stable, environmental temperature, necessitate the creation of the tools and technology required to further aid in the mitigation of global warming, and foster an international consensus on the realities and threats of climate change. China, for example, is becoming a leader in the realm of climate change mitigation, and the country’s promise to reduce coal emissions is a huge step forward in this global effort. Their initiative is truly inspiring, simultaneously encouraging the rest of the world to follow suit -- promoting solidarity, support, and, most importantly, education.
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