Land's Survival

CLIMATE CHANGE

First, many might be wondering what climate change is. So, climate change is a significant and enduring change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns during periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in conditions means of time, or of the distribution of time around average conditions. 

In Colombia, the rise in temperature has caused enormous

environmental effects such as the melting of high mountain glaciers, loss of valuable ecosystems, with important implications in food production and food security. These problems will cause the total loss of the glaciers in Colombia, including one of the most important, such as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range.

Many scientists have been researching this issue for decades, and have discovered that deforestation has wiped out 17 percent of the region's vegetation, and that if it reaches 20 percent, the jungle can go from being the support of ecosystems to become an extensive and arid savanna, this for me is something quite worrying.

Rodrigo Botero, director of the Foundation for Conservation

and Sustainable Development says, “This is close to reaching a turning point where there is going to be a deforested, dry region, without vegetation, from which it will no longer rise as much water as before to Los Andes and a significant crisis will begin to be seen ”.

There are different ways in which we can help to stop with this, such as increasing the use of bicycles, taking care of trees that although many people do not believe it are more efficient and necessary than a cell phone or tablet, they give us oxygen, also turn off electronic devices while they are not being used, not spending so much light, being aware of what we are causing the planet, at this time we do not see it but in a few years we will not know what our children or grandchildren will breathe.

By Sofía Ranauro, Step 9