Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Summary of article "A force to fight global warming"

Focusing on the ecosystems is recognized as a force to fight global warming. There are two reasons for concentrating on ecosystems to tackle the hazards of climate change. Firstly, ecosystems dominate carbon and other global biogeochemical cycles. Secondly, maintaining and restoring natural habitats are cheap, safe and easy.

Besides tacking the threats of climate change, natural ecosystems can benefit human in two ways. First, it can save lives and sustain livelihood. Natural ecosystems like mangroves can buffer against disasters and they also provide sources of income and food to livelihood. Next, there are untapped potential of the ecosystems such as enzymes that can break down agricultural waste into biofuels.

Both nature and human should see climate change as an issue. Governments should do their best to restore and maintain the ecosystems to fight global warming. Benefits to human are evident, thus governments should fight global warming with their countries as a whole.