Climate change is an ethical issue to our generation

The influence of climate change affects greatly in the scale of the whole earth. And climate change has continued happening since the Earth emerged. Scientifically, Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather. For example, ice age is a result of climate change. And the latest ice age happened in some 20 thousand years ago. It is a kind of natural phenomena. However, climate change becomes more and more remarkable in recent years, because of more and more human beings’ activities interfered, especially after the industrial revolution. At this moment, global warming is the one of the climate change issues people concerned much, which happens mostly because of too much the emission of greenhouse gases into atmosphere. In this case, climate change is not only a simply phenomenon any more, but also dues to artificial influence.
According to Broome, science can help human to deal with climate change, it belongs to scientific issues. But what most common people should do is an ethical issue. I strongly agree his opinion. Climate change is an ethical issue to our generation, because it is our responsibility to reduce bad influence of humans’ activities to climate change, and this responsibility comes from humans’ ethical concept without any juristic restriction.
Firstly, no matter what we have done about climate change so far, the influence of climate change cannot affect us very much. For example, even though we have already emitted so much greenhouse gases into atmosphere, global warming can only affect our lives after decades of years. However, most of us may not live till that time. In other word, what will happen is none of our business, but our next generation’s. But from ethical aspect, we cannot let these kinds of things happen. We should not benefit through scarifying the future of our posterity. Imagining that if we still do not limit the emission of greenhouse gases, global warming could become more and more serious. As a result, most of ice will melt, and the sea level will increase. At that time, what the movie waterworld shows us may become into reality.
Secondly, there is not a perfect juristic system to limit the effect of human being to climate change. Till 2005, more than 160 countries have already signed the Kyoto protocol, but America, which is the country that emits greenhouse gas most in the world, still not signed. Why this could happen is because that there are not any laws or treaties to force America to sign it. Another example is littering. Most countries do not have exactly law to prohibit littering. The influence of whether we litter comes from our ethical concept. Singapore as a famous country, which has exactly laws about littering. But the purpose of the laws is to maintain the positive impression of Singapore, but no deal with climate change. So it is decided by our ethical concept that whether we litter or not.
In conclusion, in our generation, climate change is still an ethical issue to most common people. We can choose whether to do some good influence to climate change or not. Although it belongs to ethical issue, we still have the responsibility to leave our prosperity a comfortable climate.