Divyansh: A very good morning to one and all, today me and my

team is going to be presenting the argument for the motion:

“Climate Change is the biggest threat to humanity”. My fellow team
mates are now going to present their parts of the argument and
hopefully it’ll be convincing enough.

Amisha: To start with, let’s understand climate change. Climate

change doesn’t mean when temperature in Bengaluru drops by 5
degrees or when a child’s ice-cream melts due to the hot sun.
Climate change is when there is an overall average change in global
climate. It has very adverse impacts even if the change is as small as
1 degree celsius. What are these adversities? How is it a threat to
us? All this will get clearer as we move through our side of the
argument.

Janki: The first major problem is adaptability. Allaudin Khilji shifted

his capital from Delhi to Devagiri during his rule and it was so
tedious that millions of lives were lost, several departments were
misplaced, administration got messy and it got so confusing and
hard that he had to move his capital back. But the British changed
their capital every year. Were they mad to do this?

Aarya: Not at all, they weren’t stupid! This was essential for them.
They had adapted and adjusted themselves to the cool climates of
Britain. It was very hard for them adjust to the tropical climate of
India but what was worser were the summers. They weren’t able to
bear the climate to such an extent that they underwent such tedious
shifts every year.

Annanya: From this, it is very clear that adaptability is one of the

major issues people face during climate change.

In case of a rise, they experience skin burns and strokes while in

case of a drop, their immune system becomes weak and they are
exposed to disease, they experience hypothermia and there’s so
many complications.

Govind: Adapting to change in climate is clearly a nightmare. A

survey conducted by Cambridge on adaptability and survival
recorded just 11% of people being able to survive and adapt to
adverse changes in climate. So climate is risking the lives of 89%

Jasniya: The next and the worst impact is global warming. Rise in the
earth’s temperature leads to global warming. This leads to rapid
melting of glaciers and ice caps at the poles which leads to a
tremendous rise in sea level and there’s enough ice caps to rise the
sea level up to the height of Mount Everest which completely wipes
out habitation which means that Planet Earth is going to be
drowned under water which means Earth is doomed and it is no
longer going to be the only living planet in the solar system. Isn’t
that a big enough threat? The whole Earth drowning!
Vismaya: Just the though of Earth drowning is ridiculous, but let’s
say we’re still at the initial stage. But even then, we’re doomed. At
the initial stage, due to rise in sea level and displacement of tectonic
plates at the poles, there’s going to be a Tsunami at almost every
coast. Central lands will go flooding. Equatorial regions are going to
catch forest fires, slowly burning down the Amazon and Congo as
well. To be honest, this has already started, we’ve all heard of
several forest fires caused due to rise in climate.

Saanvi: Also on the list, we have heat waves and droughts that are
going create huge famines enough to leave countries together
starving. So, in the longer run, there’s a lot of possibilities: Either the
whole planet drowns or forests burn and we run out of oxygen or
there’s famine and we starve to death or we’re crushed by
Tsunamis. Either way, we’re dying!

Bindushri: These disasters not only destroy property and lead to loss
of life, they put countries in a situation that they’d take a really long
time to recover. It starts with resource destruction, both human
resource and physical resource is destroyed, this leads to a major
drop in production and economic activity, which leads to fall in the
economic and financial condition of the country. A country like the
US might be able to bear it but not every country is that capable
enough. Climate change is destined to doom

Ashriya: If you think we’re exaggerating, you’re totally wrong! This

isn’t a story we built up. It was a clear and predicted idea of the
WMO which is the World Meteorological Organisation that it
proposed in one of its World Climate Conferences. We have already
seen a clear scientific vision of the future and that is the reason the
UNO, WMO and the Climate Control Organisations of several
countries meet every 4 years to discuss on measures they must be
immediately implementing to stop this nightmare.

Rishik: To conclude with, I’d like to quote the Cambridge University

which from one of its surveys listed out 3 of the biggest threats to
humanity. They are nuclear war, rogue biotechnology and climate
change. Einstein once said, “If you tell someone, ‘Don’t play with
fire’, it only tempts them more but once they burn their hands,
they’ll never try it again”. This is totally relevant. After the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no country wants to think of a nuclear
war. After COVID-19, no one would want to weaponize
biotechnology. But though we all know that CFCs are leading to
global warming and that they can directly damage our central
nervous system, every house has a refrigerator and every house has
an air conditioner.

But the problem with climate change is that you can’t recover from
it. This is simply because your planet wouldn’t exist to give you a
second chance. It’d be too late.
Climate change is basically the Thanos of our age. NASA has seen
the 14 million 605 probabilities and WMO is constantly working to
find the one probability in which Earth shall survive. On a whole,
climate change is inevitable and thus the biggest threat to humanity.