The Pros And Cons Of Climate Change

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Climate change. Is it really a bad thing?

With all the natural disasters that happened in the past decades, society has a firm, deeply rooted belief that the main culprit, the cause of all havoc, is none other than climate change. Thousands of organizations are fighting the war against climate change. They condemn heatwaves for causing water disruption, for melting glaciers, etc. Who can blame them? We see it all over the news. “Heatwave causing deaths”, “Thousands evacuated due to flood”, “Severe dehydration due to water shortage”.
I have to say this, however, climate change has brought a significant amount of good to us all. This isn’t a hypothesis, it isn’t fantasy, and even though it is an unpopular opinion that is shunned upon, it is a fact. Now, before you decide to hurl insults and push this statement away, hear me out.
Mainstream media usually ignores studies showing benefits of climate change, because quite frankly, good news is no news. A recent IPCC report also proved that the belief that weather disasters are caused by climate change is entirely mythical for the time being. The report stated there was “no …show more content…

The building of wind turbines, growing biofuels and substituting wood for coal in power stations. All these policies were designed for only one purpose, to fight climate change, and fight the war, they did. But these very policies have driven people into fuel poverty, made industries uncompetitive, heightened food prices, accelerated deforestations, just to name a few effects. A research done estimates that because 5% of the world’s grain crop are being used for motor fuel instead of food, nearly 200,000 people are dying yearly on a global basis, due to malnutrition. To make matters worse, governments are constantly increasing electricity costs to consumers, all in the name of being “environmental