Global warming carries a great impact on all countries. With its advent, sea levels around the world are liable to rise, inundating low-lying countries. These include countries such as Holland and Bangladesh, and more worryingly, Singapore. Much of Singapore is low lying. If sea levels rose, Singapore’s economic mettle would be greatly hamstrung by the lack of room for commercial purposes, especially with a rapidly increasing population. On another note, average temperatures would also likely increase, and already has been doing so for a while. This is especially so as the sun’s rays are especially intense at the equator, where Singapore is. This would cause Singapore to be an unpopular tourist destination, decimating our tourist industry. On a related note, the temperature increase would also likely cause an increase in air-conditioning usage.

The proposed solutions to global warming in may be legion, but in essence could all be summed up like thus; cut down on emission of greenhouse gases such as methane. However, this cannot be accomplished without cooperation from the masses.

Global warming is everybody’s problem, and the solution must come from all of us. We should all do our part to reduce our emission of greenhouse gases. As a student, we can make changes to our lifestyles to aid this effort. For example, we can take public transport instead of private vehicles as much as possible. Since the number of buses each day is fixed, why not latch onto this service instead of contributing further to global warming by using private vehicles? Also, we can boycott products that are not marked environmentally friendly. Though these actions alone are weak, they can be strong in solidarity with other environmentally conscious people. Hence, if we all do our part, we can battle against the inevitable apocalypse that is global warming.