ARGUMENT ESSAY

The Paris climate agreement.

The Paris climate agreement, also known as COP21, has marked the culmination
of years of fieldwork trying to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, after a failed
attempt in 2009 at the Copenhagen Climate Conference (Adam, 2009). Studies have
demonstrated that the temperature has increased by more than 1°F and the 2001-2010
decade has been the warmest since 1880 (Global Warming Causes, 2011). The aim of
the Paris climate agreement is to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2°C by
2100, so this pact will have a very positive impact in many aspects, that is why more
than 195 countries have reunited in Paris to make an agreement that will improve the
conditions of Earth and they have the commitment to being reunited again every five
years to exchange data of the improvements that they’re supposed to be making. Plus,
some important environmental activists are very pleased with this pact because is a big
step for people into a cleaner and less contaminant world (Adler, 2015), in spite of
there’re some conservatives who think this pact is a waste of time (Lebel, 2015), so, in
this essay I intent to argue that, in my opinion, this new covenant will be a marvelous
measure to improve the conditions on planet Earth.

First of all, I will say that I think the Paris climate agreement is a wonderful
signed covenant for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, and due
to this, they will achieve to reduce the actual high temperature of the planet. However,
some American conservatives think that this pact is a waste of time for America and
they miserably dismiss this Paris conference. Nonetheless, I personally believe that if
the gas emissions would be reduced, the quality of the air will improve and
consequently, the health of humans, so it cannot be ignored. Studies has proved that bad
quality air affects the lungs, the skin, even the brain with headaches, and not just that, if
the Earth gets warmer, will provoke rising sea levels, population displacement,
disruption to the food supply, flooding, and an increase in infectious diseases
(Feldscher, 2015).

It could of course be argued, like some environmental activists affirm, that the
pact isn’t good enough yet, because of its lack of preoccupation for getting the
developed world to contribute more assistance to developing countries to adapt to
climate change and to transition to clean energy -which has not been taken into account
in the assembly-. The president of Friends of the Earth U.S., Erich Pica, says: “The
Paris Climate Agreement is not a fair, just or science-based deal” (Adler, 2015). In fact,
he's partly right, but this seems to me like they’re putting the cart before the horse,
because certainly I’m sure that the pact will be improved in some years from now, but
the first and most important is to treat the bigger aspects that are affecting to improve
the Global Warming.

I feel that, seeing to the data that scientists provide us, any environmental pact
will be a right choice to make for society and Earth of nowadays. Everybody needs to
be aware of how important is to take care of the planet where we live, because if we
don’t, in not so many years from now, we won’t have enough water for all, and
consequently, we cannot cultivate plants and feed the animals, so we can’t be able eat.
Of course, it’s true that is not going to be easy and surely will take years, but, as soon as
possible, we all need to be conscious and start to have a “less-contaminant-life” for the
good of Earth and for the good of the next generations, for example using more public
transport, recycling...

So then, in this essay I have argued that the Paris climate agreement is a very
good step to a less contaminated world. Is our duty to take care of our planet now,
because we are being ignoring it for centuries and the consequences have hit us very
hard; radical climate, lack of enough rain, the poles melting and many species of
animals extinct because of all of this. Luckily, I feel that people are becoming more
conscious with being more “planet- friendly”, you can observe many garbage recycling,
batteries and oil bins in cities, and supermarkets have begun to charge for the plastic
bags, so people tend to reutilize bags made of fabric when they go shopping. In my
view, this is a very difficult and hard work to make, but if we all collaborate we will
make the world a better place for everyone and for those to come.