Essay On Climate Change In Mongolia

Climate change effects in Mongolia and the loss of national heritage
The Antarctic’s ice melt and the accelerating sea level rise, growing number of large wildfires, intense heat wave shocks, severe drought and blizzards, disrupted and decreased food supply, and the extreme storm events are increasing to happen in many areas world wide, and these are just few of many consequences of global warming. The fossil fuel like coal, natural gas, and oil we burn for energy, plus the loss of forests due to disforestation in the southern hemisphere are also big contributors to climate change. In the past three decades, every single year was warmer then the previous year, and the warmest 12 years were recorded since 1998. We are overburdening our atmosphere with green house emissions and trapping the heat, and recently, the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere has reached 400 pmm. Not just environmental issues are rising due to carbon dioxide increase, but more and miscellaneous issues are appearing as climate change becomes more severe. For example, regional and local analyses and models agree that Mongolia has become noticeably warmer and this temperature rise is relevant in damaging their millennial of the historic nomadic lifestyle and even brought it to the peek of extinction. The Mongolian nomadic pastoralists became highly vulnerable to many unusual climate impacts and extreme temperature fluctuation that have led to inadequate pastureland and loss of an enormous number of livestock. Herders are facing hostile environmental conditions that led to entrenched pastoral poverty. This essay mainly focuses on the climate change impacts on the qualitative value of indigenous culture and nomadic life style. In addition, there is a starting t...

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...stment for equity weighting, the impacts will first impact most heavily poor countries that could lead to losses valued at high proportion of their national GDP, but in the future the burden of the climate change phenomenon will heavily impact the global GDP as well (Ackerman).
As mentioned in Frank Ackerman’s article, our moral obligation to protect the lives and livelihoods, children and our future generations became a matter of counting numerical numbers now. Thus, highly money oriented society looses all the meanings of obligation and gratitude towards environment and culture. The monetary evaluation system becomes highly complicated and ineffective for non-economic values because when the economy starts working efficiently and starts recovering from any monetary losses, it is still unable to recover from the ”real loss,” the environmental and cultural damages.