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    The document discusses the impacts of climate change around the world, including increased global temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme weather events. It notes that climate change is primarily caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and other activities. While there is uncertainty around impacts, effects are already occurring such as disrupted water supplies and decreased agricultural yields. The document calls for collective action utilizing technology and crowdsourcing ideas to combat climate change and decrease greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale.

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    The document discusses the impacts of climate change around the world, including increased global temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme weather events. It notes that climate change is primarily caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and other activities. While there is uncertainty around impacts, effects are already occurring such as disrupted water supplies and decreased agricultural yields. The document calls for collective action utilizing technology and crowdsourcing ideas to combat climate change and decrease greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale.

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    The document discusses the impacts of climate change around the world, including increased global temperatures, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme weather events. It notes that climate change is primarily caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and other activities. While there is uncertainty around impacts, effects are already occurring such as disrupted water supplies and decreased agricultural yields. The document calls for collective action utilizing technology and crowdsourcing ideas to combat climate change and decrease greenhouse gas emissions on a global scale.

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    The world is going to be shot to pieces due to the climate change issue.

    The
    impacts truly give unexpected disaster to our environment and humankind. It
    also has been spreading and being one of the UN priorities. Yet there is
    considerable uncertainty regarding the social and environmental impact due
    to the limited capabilities of existing physics-based models of the Earth
    system. Temperature of the earths surface has been increased about 0.85 0C
    (1.4F) in the last 100 years. The impacts slowly affect territories around the
    world, including in Asia. Indonesia is one of the country that also has highest
    vulnerable of climate change impact, mostly on the environment. The
    increasing of land conversion and deforestation boosts the contributions of
    the problems. For example, the change of temperature and climate contribute
    to the risk of disasters, in Indonesia disaster occurs so often latterly. Floods
    and earthquakes are recorded several times in the past few years.

    There are many factors that cause climate change, which is the primary
    caused is the burning fossil fuels such as oil and coal that emits greenhouse
    gases into the atmosphere that mostly contains carbon dioxide. Scientists
    believe that gases released from industry and agriculture (known as
    emissions) are adding to the natural greenhouse effect and caused global
    warming itself. The concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere also increases
    year by year. In the 2015, it was higher than at any time in the last 800,000
    years and reached a record high on May in that year 1. This diagram below
    shows the description.

    The changes of temperature, weather, sea levels, water cycle, and even the food
    supplies may cause a chaos condition someday if we do nothing from now. In
    Africa for example, some regions are likely to experience water shortages. The
    result in large increases the number of people at risk of water scarcity, and in the
    length of the growing season may increase risk of hunger. In some countries,
    yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50% by 2020. In the
    Asia region, glacier melting in the Himalayas is virtually certain to disrupt the
    1
    Six Graphics that Explain Climate Change. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5aceb360-8bc3-4741-99f0-
    2e4f76ca02bb
    2
    Climate Change around the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/6528979.stm

    water supply within the next 20 to 30 years 2. Besides of that, the diseases will
    also be spreading up to Southeast Asia and rises coastal water temperature that
    could exacerbate cholera in South Asia.

    Source: sunysuffolk.edu

    The figure above is also an example of current vulnerabilities of freshwater


    resources in the world caused by climate change. Water supplies are the life. We
    cannot live without water, as the supplies are slowly decreased we may be in the
    condition of dryness in the future someday. Coincide with that, the diseases are
    also spreading among people because of the unhealthy environment.
    The climate change around the world continue rise
    throughout the 21st century. The figure shows the top 10
    greenhouse gas emitters of the countries that contribute to
    the climate changes problem3. Based on the data, Indonesia
    contributes 1.5% to the gas emissions in the
    world. Those contributions affect the climate and give the
    adverse consequences of the climate change itself, such as
    increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes, precipitation
    regime shifts, and the propensity for extreme weather
    events that creates environmental disasters. The
    greenhouse gases trap the suns rays within the
    Earths atmosphere and are considered one of the main
    culprits of the climate change. We, as human being also
    contribute to the increasing concentration of the
    greenhouse gases. Actually this is the highest contribution
    and forgotten sometimes. Our activities such
    as agriculture, waste disposal and land
    developments, or our products that we
    consume everyday can add the emission gases
    proportion in the atmosphere which is notably
    carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. For
    3
    simple
    Six Graphics that Explain Climate Change. thing, like using air conditioner in our
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5aceb360-8bc3-
    4741-99f0-2e4f76ca02bb home, it can contribute in releasing
    greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. AC
    contains refrigerants that, if allowed to escape
    into the atmosphere will contribute heavily to global warming and may
    additionally deplete the ozone layer. Based on homeguide.sfgate.com, lights with
    significant percentage of electricity also contribute to the greenhouse gas
    emissions. Moreover, the garbage when household garbage ends up in a landfill,
    it decomposes, producing greenhouse gases including methane.

    On the graphic we can see that human factors can be catalyst for the increasing
    of temperature. Greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere, aerosols also cool it a
    little bit, of course Ozon and land-use changes add and subtract a little. Together
    they match the observed temperature particularly since 1950 4.
    So based on the description before, we really need to realize and start thinking
    how to minimize the impacts of climate change in our environment. Stop it
    before the problem truly crushes the earth we live. Of course to do the action we
    need support from the massive one, the people of the nation. Not only collective
    action but also in this case, we should think the effective and innovative way. As
    we know, technology has given so much benefit in our life nowadays. We easily
    get information from social networking through internet. From that, actually we
    can make the best use of this technology advancement in solving problems of
    climate change. We can initiate the movement such as crowdsourcing to utilize
    and unite people around the world together do the same action in saving the
    earth especially by utilizing technology or internet. The mainstreaming,
    awareness among societies or collective movement will give real impacts for our
    environment, if all the people gather together participate in decreasing the gas
    emissions. I believe that crowdsourcing can be one of alternative solutions we
    can try to combat this problem. The several ideas which can be recommendation
    for the problem solving due to climate change are:

    1. Possible solutions with technology utilization


    Technology can be one of the answers in order to solve the problems of
    climate change. I think doing something like hackathon also will give a
    massive impact and understanding among the people. We can create
    simple application or something like a video game relating to climate
    change context, not only it can give a pleasure especially for the children
    who often play the video games, but also can spread awareness about
    how important it is that our earth is urgently needed to be saved by
    decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming or
    climate change. The children through the application can learn so early
    the important thing or being aware to save the world by doing a simple
    thing from their own home such as doing the good things for their
    4
    What environment.
    Really WarmingSpreading awareness of the important saving the earth
    the World. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-
    among people will give significant impact to the peoples behavior. This
    the-world/
    behavior can affect the positive culture and create healthy environment as
    a whole.

    2. Do collective intelligence
    By doing the collective intelligence like what MIT did, called Climate CoLab
    is also can be a good thing. This initiative gives such online makerspace
    that allows climate activists, scientists and experts to share knowledge
    and collaborate on concrete solutions to reduce climate change problems.
    This online platform is open to everyone, everywhere and whenever. Doing
    simply to just participate or be involved in sharing knowledge and do the
    collective action together around the world will be a great movement in
    reducing the impact of climate change. Need to take a note, that we can
    collaborate and formulate the best solution or project that possible to do
    and be implemented into reality. This alternative will be great thing if all of
    the specialist, experts, and professionals participate and help each other
    to create a real solution for climate change problems.
    3. Change the behavior of the human itself
    The movement to combat the climate change should be started from each
    of us as a human. We need to stop using commodities that increase the
    concentrations of the emissions such as carbon dioxide. One person who
    participates in decreasing is really matter that at least it will minimize the
    impact. Imagine if each of us participates in the movement like this, I
    believe that there will be no issue of ozone depletion or climate change
    anymore. Moreover, to respond the problem of garbage that also
    contributes to the methane gases. People also need to habituate sorting
    the trash and reducing overall garbage production in their home, cutting
    the volume of waste that potentially adding to landfills. Better if we can
    reuse and recycle all appropriate materials or composting organic waste
    sequesters nitrogen in a useful form instead of allowing it to escape into
    the atmosphere as methane. The understanding about this should be
    disseminated so the problems can be solved from the roots.

    4. Create online community


    We also can create community that concerns in this issue. Through social
    media or online networking together we can ask for help, funding or make
    project as a community to solve problem especially in the local domain.

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