Group Topic's 1000 word essay: Simmone Cruz
How Climate Change, The Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill, and Gender Inequality impact everyday life Let’s Talk About Climate Change Climate change is the long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns primarily caused by human activity. Global warming, the long-term heating of the earth’s climate, has been observed for centuries but has rapidly increased due to human activities like burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon emissions. As global temperatures rise, an influx of storms impacts local and international communities. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, flooding, tsunamis, fires, and melting ice are apparent symptoms of human-induced climate change. Not to be confused with weather changes, which vary over minutes or hours, climate change is the long-term evolution of the earth’s temperature that now threatens every aspect of human life. Humans are exacerbating climate change through...