By Krish Kubba
Dear people who care about the environment,
Polar bears are going extinct. That’s the simple explanation. There are too many greenhouse gasses in the world, the polar ice caps are melting, and 36.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide will not disappear while you sit around watching TV and eating Doritos. The faster we ruin the planet, the faster it will die. There are many ways to help.
All of you have probably heard about polar bears going extinct because of climate change but not a lot of people know why. Greenhouse gasses are the reason. Most of the people reading this have probably heard of greenhouse gasses. But do any of you actually know what they are and how they work? Greenhouse gasses are actually good for the planet, but you know the quote you can have too much of a good thing? That’s exactly what is happening with greenhouse gasses. The main pollution comes from CO2 and methane. They act like one way mirrors but for heat. They let in heat from the sun, but then don’t let it out, creating the greenhouse effect. That means the more greenhouse gasses we have in the atmosphere, the faster they will accumulate, then that will be much more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which in turn will make greenhouse gasses go supersonic.
But how does any of this greenhouse gas mumbo jumbo have to do with polar bears? Because of the 36.4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses, the ice on the ocean is melting, the polar bears don’t have enough time to hunt, thus resulting in less chance to survive, not enough polar bears to reproduce, and so on and so forth. We need to help these polar bears. We can cut down our carbon footprint. In case you don’t know what that is, it is how much carbon you emit. I took a survey myself and came out with a 36% carbon footprint.
You can be creative on how to reduce your carbon footprint. You can go solar, eat less fast food, and take less showers (the kids will like that). There are so many ways to help polar bears and overall the Earth itself. You don’t have to be an expert, you just have to care about the world.
-Krish Kubba
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