MCRSDM 208 CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AND LEGAL FRAMEWORKS

ASSIGNMENT No. 1
QUESTION:

1. Is climate change the cause of the environmental problems/issues/concerns we are

experiencing or is it the other way around?

Answer:

The argument is relative to asking who came or must come first, is it the egg or the chicken?
Wherein, as always will be unending discussions. We can say that the existence of life is
scientific, but the creation will be most likely biblical for most.

But citing the real situation the question imposes a different point of view wherein we need to
identify the individual factors that are really affecting the changes that are occurring. The two
might appear to be totally interlinked because of the substantial effects of human activities in
the modern times but climate change appears to be an offshoot subset of the many causes and
categories of environmental change.

There are several aspects that we can differentiate climate and environmental changes. Climate
change is relatively caused by the composition of the atmosphere, these includes the chemicals
and gases that are present. While environmental change is more on the atmospheric factors
specifically to agents such as temperature and weathering. But there are instances that due to
environmental change caused by volcanism wherein it produces new gases that also affect or
contribute to the composition of the atmosphere. The orbiting relationship of the earth and the
sun with the gradual changes in motion, shape and orientation of the earth is caused by climate
change thus resulting the shifting of weather periods across the hemispheres.

In addition, the containment level of environmental change started more than 100,000 years ago
compared to the level of containment of climate change where we can only trace it for the past
100 years. Thus, meaning that the existence of environmental change is a natural part of the
ecosystem, and that climate change can be correlated to the existence of the sapiens.

Furthermore, environmental change is more contained because there are forms of

environmental change that humans have mitigated, such as ozone depletion, whereas
anthropogenic climate change is a new problem that is yet to be mitigated.

More importantly, considering the citations that were discussed still the contexts are a rocket
science thing to comprehend. We the living sapiens today must always bear in mind that the

ANDREW TORIBIO B. TAACA

DPA Student
 MCRSDM 208 CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES AND LEGAL FRAMEWORKS

ASSIGNMENT No. 1
future “Children are the least responsible for climate change, yet they will bear the greatest
burden of its impact.” Therefore, climate change mitigation is necessary to reduce the harm and
to avoid the worst effects of climate change. At the same time disaster risk reduction and
climate change adaptation is necessary to reduce vulnerability to the climate change impacts
that we cannot prevent.

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ANDREW TORIBIO B. TAACA

DPA Student