Climate change is a real and very present disaster, it affects everyone in varying ways. For some, you just see it on the news about all these terrifying things happening away from you when you only notice the weather changes. And for others, it’s a tsunami of problems and disasters, literally. Climate change takes part in the majority of natural disasters, including the California wildfires raging currently as of early 2025. Human lives are lost due to these tragedies, and many more are separated from their families. Climate change’s massive weather disasters mainly affect the communities and regions where modern tech and help is not available, these people are more likely to be injured, lose their homes or even die.
According to these sources Greenhouse effect, all of this starts with the greenhouse gas.The greenhouse effect is where the gas that floats up into the atmosphere and causes the earth to stay warm, which is a good thing if you want to stay alive and not freeze to death. But because we are burning so many fossil fuels and emitting an extreme amount of gas, the earth’s natural greenhouse’s clock is going faster and faster, like a huge, heavy, fluffy insulated blanket was added to your normal one. Hot right? And it’s causing enormous damage to the earth and creatures living on it.
This extreme rise in temperature is causing the ice to melt at the north and south poles, which is reflecting radiation and heat away from the earth, but now the poles are getting smaller and smaller, so the earth is getting warmer from that too! Plus, when the icebergs melt, they crash into the sea, leaving the animals living on them stranded for dead with no home. Just imagine all the poor animals that are left stranded in the middle of the ocean with nowhere to rest and just slowly seeing your species dying off. Horrible. The sea levels rise from the extra water and cause flooding and damage to ecosystems.
According to these sources: Hurricane, Fires, the weather is one of the biggest things affected by climate change. Recently the California fires were helped by climate change, the massive droughts and dryness that California has experienced are a factor that played in the fire. Another factor is that the dry brush added to the fire’s mass and size, the decreased precipitation definitely didn’t help with the matter. These key things have resulted in people losing their homes and jobs due to the flames, people have also died from the destructive flames. Hurricanes are also spawning more and more often, the one in Florida very recently. In 2024, Hurricane Milton paved a path of destruction through Florida, causing massive damages, 24 people were killed in its path. And there were many other wildfires and hurricanes caused by climate change, from little brush fires to category four and five hurricanes clawing destruction and death through the earth and people. These colossal grievances are damaging our home to a permanent degree.
Agriculture can be extremely delicate and needy, farms with different kinds of crops all need varying things; amount of water, type soil, fertilizer, etc. When climate change rears its ugly, toothy head, it disrupts these things and is causing people to have less crops after the season is done. The floods and droughts that are attacking the plants cause significant damage to the farms. The fires sparked by the dry droughts also destroy the rows of crops and livestock. Floods are also way easier to appear since the water from oncoming rain is unable to sink into the hard parched ground and bring in diseases that can spread through the crops and over water them.
People have been burning fossil fuels for years and years, and we have put off climate change, saying “The next generation can deal with it!” But we might not have more generations if our leaders continue to act like climate change isn’t a big problem or that it doesn’t exist at all. This needs to change, creating more electric powered vehicles, shutting down industries that cause damage to the environment for money, stopping the deforestation of rainforests, and so much more can help heal the wounds we have dealt ourselves onto our home. If we don’t work together and stop this disaster, then we’re in for a nasty future.
