Positive Effects Of Global Warming Essay

Global warming and its positive effects – a critical reflection

“Global warming must be seen as an economic and security threat.”

This statement of Kofi Annan, Nobel Prize winner and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, is certainly controversial since it illuminates a different perspective relating to global warming, unlike the common approaches. This strategy brings up several questions. In which form will the economic and security related threats occur? What does global warming mean? For whom is global warming a threat? What is global warming considered now, if not as a threat? To recognize the importance of Annan´s statement, one has to contemplate the debates on this particular topic, which came up over the last few years.

I am just of the opinion that we should concentrate on stopping global warming instead of taking advantage of it. From my point of view, the first article implicates euphemism at several occasions. It is pretty embellishing to call the unusually warm and pleasant weather in Canada a guilty pleasure since it is caused by global warming and will eventually result in damaging effects on the whole world. As stated later in the first article, Canada should develop a stronger community thinking when it comes to doing something about global warming. For me, this is a rational approach, however, not only Canada or the other northern countries who would benefit from global warming should be aware of the role they have to play in this scenario in order to sustain our planet properly. In fact, the countries with the highest pollution figures are not northern countries. The highest figures come from countries like China or India, however, this does not mean that northern countries are innocent according to pollution and global warming, rather it means that they should not take advantage of their geographically lucky position on the planet and aggravate the environmental situation by expanding their yield figures as stated in the second