We live in an age of rapid change in the global environment,
change caused by prolific human activities and unprecedented in human
history. Among-st the most prominent of the change is the alteration of
composition of the atmosphere, with the associated consequences for the earth
climate. Although, there has been series of event that has resulted to climate
change in the past, however, this present is peculiar in that it is
anthropogenic ally induced.
This change is as a result
of the continuing processes of evolutionary change and
adaptation that have led to the development of the marvelously diverse
communities of organisms over the land and of the surface waters of the earth.
When human beings first appeared on the earth and the development of
civilization began our collective impact on the process of natural selection
and evolution was hardly perceptible.
But as we increase in
numbers and particularly after we learned stored in fossil fuel and apply this
energy to the process of urbanization, industrialization and intensive
agriculture and forestry, our impact become progressively stronger. Over the
century, as a result of this human influence, virtually all ecosystems on earth
have being affected. This in turn has altered and transformed the major
biogeochemical cycles, such as the global carbon, water and nitrogen
cycles. Almost every human being do on a large scale influences the
chemistry of the atmosphere. All countries, regardless of their levels’ of
development or type of political system are subject to the adverse effect of
climate change variability. Recent studies have shown that industrial countries
are no more immune to the impact of climate change than the developing
counties.
In fact, according to sten
review committee, it indicates that the poorest developing countries will be
worst hit earliest and hardest by climate change even though they contributed
little to coursing the problem. Houses contribute to the global
climate change, this is so because it is more than shelter but robust and an
all encompassing environmental and systematic view in that the environment as
used is more generic to encapsulate all systemic environment that influence housing.
Suffice to ay, it is a collection of characteristic to provide a unique home
within any neighborhood and it is thus an array of economic, sociological a
psychological phenomena.
Housing as a sub set of the
eco-system utilizes the package of bundle of facilities and utilities and this
interrelatedness no doubt affect the environment. Hence, liability for
pollution of our planet does not solely rest with the great industrial combines
whose facilities spew chemical waste into the air, on to the land, into water
and sees. These are all major contributors, but ultimately, it is the house
holder who maintains the demand for their product, and who therefore the bears
an equal responsibility for the pollution that threaten to ruin our planets. In
accordance with this, house hold has created today’s ecological crises. The
warning of the earth’s atmosphere as a result of the blanketing effect of
carbon-dioxide and other polling gases is now being taken seriously
considering the fact that it is continually been noticed. In an attempt to take
aback at history at the start of the 21st century, humanity is
becoming a predominantly urban species and this historic development represents
a fundamental, systemic change in the relationship between human and nature.
Human habitats has gone
through many phases in its evolution and perhaps now at a point where reversal
has become critical. From the cave man era through the age of small huts made
from straws and trunks to the age of brick, wood, metal and glass the human
habitat has metamorphosed indeed. As population grew and human beings began to
organize their societies, so did the size and dynamics of their settlement grow
and become sophisticated yet complicated. The socio-economics of climate change
to house hold vulnerability has a variety of counts.
The economy is more dependant on climatically sensitive natural
resources-natural eco-systems like forests as well as farming and
fishing environmental stress of various kind is already acute
in many areas as a result of the implication of climate change that
is aggravating it many of the adaptation that would be required to reduce
cost of this phenomenon must intensify the management of nature
reservoirs , redesign of dams and irrigation systems although may be beyond the
resources of many countries poorer countries , this adjustment imposes cost on
all.
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