Climate Change Speech

Climate change is not only about science but also about politics and ethics

We live in the era when climate change has become a vital issue, a literally vital issue. A lot of creatures and living substances are dying because of the climate change, the landscapes change, burying under water whole islands. This is just a little part of what climate change does to the world we live in. On the first glance it seems obvious that everybody should be worried about the climate change, also because it affects our lives and our health and even because there is nowhere to run away from the planet. But this is not always the case, not everybody cares about it. It takes much more than just an individual’s sympathy or understanding of what the climate change

Our world has been taken over by huge corporations. How many of them influence the climate change is not even closely comparable to how individuals do. Corporations need to take a lot of decisions that in some way dictate the development of the climate change. There are a lot of industrial corporations that often have to choose between polluting the environment or spending millions or billions more and have their actions less harmful. It seems easy to think that corporations own a lot of money, so they can just spend more and not pollute the environment. But we should understand that corporations exist because they make money. If there is no profit, those corporations will just shut down. This is where it comes to a both ethical and political issue. It is impossible to just shut down corporations and plants because they are influencing climate change in a bad way. First of all, most of what we are doing nowadays or having nowadays (electricity, for example) is a product of some corporation. Shutting down corporations and plants will make deprive us from a lot of possibilities and modern conveniences that we are used to. Second of all, corporations and plants give jobs to millions of people. It is not ethical to leave people jobless because of the nature. Moreover, these people are trained for such jobs, and if there are no such jobs, it can become hard for them to survive, if at all possible. In today’s life it is hard to survive if there are no financial means. If there is no money, there is no food, there is no place to live. Is this living then or surviving? There is a question between depriving people of their lives now or slowly killing our planet. Even though it sounds very extreme, this is how it is if one of the sides is taken without balancing the decisions in a clever way that would take into account both today and