Face Off the Climate Crisis: 20 Ways

We are now facing the challenges of the climate change crisis in our midst. How can we adapt to the climate crisis evident in many disasters nowadays? The author explores and suggests 20 ways on how to face off the climate crisis. – Ed.

The Harsh Reality of Climate Change

The universe and its populace sustain and come to some knowledge by living through it all on the face-off with the climate crisis undertakings. Having a relatively high temperature because of the embracive global warming and climate crisis on the rise has been felt by now and will be continual.

This warming will be a harsh event, causing discomfort because of a severe warm humid climate like no other in the upcoming months to come. Some will endure a strenuous, sweaty heat stroke from the severe temperature.

The vast flora and fauna, the forest, farms and farmers will be directly affected resulting in shortages of electricity, water and worst — food, eventually. The onslaught is gonna be a shade of a dreadful, ghastly global warfare, a global economic concern.

How Climate Change Affects Us

Health Effects of Climate Change on Individuals

It implies in a manner indicated, our conventional and acted upon activities will be aggravatingly impacted, cause an insurmountable change and somehow affect everyone.

If we are accustomed to a natural bodily exertion for the sake of maintaining or developing physical fitness at 3 o’clock pm, then it’s high time to do it at earlier time like at 6am. Pedaling on your bike, playing tennis, physical conditioning through running need to keep pace with the changing temperature. There’s no better way, but do these activities early in the morning.

Performing errands like going to the market in the afternoon with the piping hot blazing sunbeam needs to be rescheduled early morning too, or at 5pm when the ultra-hot ray of the sun is down. Business meetings and corporate meetings need to be scheduled or planned again according to a different timetable. Commencing from sunrise to noon would be ideal.

Why? Because it will be whacking boiling hot, feeling the extreme sensation of heat with a head start in the afternoon, which is detrimental most especially with high blood pressure, heart ailments among the elderly.

Effects of Climate Change to Animals and Ecosystems

The disturbance on the land and the vast body of the waters and its degree of abnormal heat and high temperature extend to the endurance of seven seas, the aquatic animals and its seabed.

This phenomenon results to a multitude of sea creatures deteriorating on some parts of the globe, forest wildfires on regions with extreme temperature and the massive bulk of frozen water ice coherently formed across the brim over a myriad hundred of years has been to an imperceptible degree suffering a meltdown.

Putting on a layperson’s view, as air temperature continuous to grow warmer and warmer, Antarctic ice shelves of ice shelf break up and flow on oceans, resulting in warmer seas and seabeds and cause a high rise of sea levels. It’s like putting 5 cubes of ice on a glass filled with water, hence it overflows.

Data from NASA shows Meltwater from Antartica and Greenland results in the damaging one-third (1/3) of the global average rise in the sea level since 1993 to present. The age of the oldest glacier in Antarctica may approach 1 million years old.

Future rise in sea level implies challenges for human displacement, interference both with aquatic life and the agriculture where human gets food, influx of climate refugees, coastal habitat degradation, famine and hunger, etc. because of humans emissions of greenhouse gases, pollution, emission of carbon dioxide into atmosphere by humankind like fossil fuel burning, cement production and deforestation.

Thus, in keeping with expectations and norms, we with indicative prudence and obligation brace yourself for the shocking storm, to take heart, do something have a structural plan to hold as a stronghold foundation. Plan in advance to be ready beforehand for a common purpose.

20 Ways on How to Face Off the Climate Crisis and Global Warming

Short-term strategies

1. Invariably clean your screened doors, screened windows, electric fans, car aircon and house aircon once a week even with just a brisk touch of feather duster and or a piece of clean cloth to expose you and your family to a better general clean cooling air. Home appliances like electric fans and clean aircon can fully execute a magnanimous coolness if it is habitually neat, totally free from any dirt of protuberances.
2. Perpetually open your windows and doors on daytime every day with locked screened doors and screened windows so adjusted as to fully allow a surmountable natural passage of fresh air in your entire house, especially for the tropical regions. The natural clean air from outside as opposed to the relatively stuffy air from inside the house is much cooler.
3. Evermore drink fresh cool water (not cold) at a minimum once per hour. A teeny weeny will distinctly do like just 1/4 glass of water to prevent your children and your family from being deprived of vitality and lose body fluids of water. Having a water bottle just within a grasp of your kids is ideal. More so if you have health conditions, exercising, athletes and when you’re in the tropics.
4. Conserve water to prevent running out of water, especially on hotter season. Reuse water after doing the dishes by watering the plants with it.
5. Have a huge water tank from the rain which you can use to water the plants, bathing pets, bathing animal farms and car wash purposes. Built a water tank (from the rain) made of cement and connect a water hose on its faucet when watering the plants and car wash errands. Another option would be to purchase huge drums as water tanks from the rain.
6. Taking a bath regularly during daytime when you have a hot and humid weather, not at sunset, cools down your body. For those who have a difficulty getting up in the morning, a nice morning shower can really make a big difference according to Dr. Janet K. Kennedy, which boosts your vigor for the day ahead and or needed for your day activities. Taking a quick shower in the morning for those with high blood and heart ailments is likewise advisable. Further, it allows you to regroup before a hectic day, which can reduce inflammation and psychologically puts you in a better mood to face the day. And if you have insomnia, take another quick shower for 5- 10 minutes in the evening to help you have a better sleep.
7. Consume more high in water content veggies in the form of 1 cup of zucchini contains 95% water, courgette or cucumber 96.73% water, tomatoes 95% water, carrots 88% water, chayote 94% water, Mexican potato or Mexican turnip (Filipino singkamas) 92% water, turnip leaves 92% water, lettuce 95% water, celery 95% water, bok choy or pechay 95% water, radish 95% water, watercress 95% water, green bell pepper 94% water, asparagus 93% water, lady finger okra 93% water, kale 92% water, swiss chard leaf 92% water, cauliflower 92% water, spinach 91.4% water, squash 91% water, aubergine or eggplant 92.7% water, mustard greens 90% water, broccoli 89.3% water.
8. Consume more of the high in water content fruits e.g. grapefruit 92% water, watermelon 92% water, strawberry 91% water, cantaloupe 90.15% water, honeydew melon 90% water, carica papaya 88% water, peaches 88% water, oranges 87% water, sweet fresh pineapple 86% water, apple 85% water, (pears, mangoes, apricots, plum, blackberries, lychee, rambutan, lanzones, raspberries, blueberries are all 85% water & above), kiwi 80%, skim milk water content 90.84%, soymilk water content 90.36%,
9. Have fresh fruit juices instead of the canned or bottled juices during the mid-day or right after your lunch. You can have the Fresh Fruit-Veggies Infused Water Combination of A. cucumber, lemon and a pitcher of water; B. cucumber, oranges and a pitcher of water; C. sweet pineapple, mango and a pitcher of water; D. oranges, blueberries and a pitcher of water; E. strawberries, oranges, mint leaves and a pitcher of water; F. raspberries, cucumber, mint leaves and a pitcher of water; G. basil, watermelon and a pitcher of water; H. ginger, blackberries, orange and a pitcher of water; I. watermelon, papaya, orange and water; J. watermelon, papaya, mango, banana and water; K. pineapple, orange, coconut and water. These serves as an efficient refreshing organic, refreshing coolers at hot temperature as it contains nutrients. You can opt to purchase organic fruits and veggies, or grow ones in your own garden, or if it’s not available, just wash it thoroughly to get rid of the harmful chemicals and ensure healthy nutrients for your family.
10. Refrain from wearing fabric made from silk filaments apparel specially on boiling hot season, and even like you were so hot from being in the sun for too long particularly to a great extent for those having rigid trainings in the outdoors, the ones who loves sports, the ones who exercise on field habitually, the athletes, the on-field employees, and a lot more. Opt for a comfier one as an alternative to shun away from the heat like wearing a fabric made of cotton to allow the passage of a light breeze of air.
11. Shun away from eating on a multiplex spicey foods as it results to over sweating and even headache to a few on extreme hot season. It’s a normal physiological response for too many herbs and spices to raise the temperature of your body so you sweat a lot, which is more pronounce in your temple, scalp and even results in body odor to some on a towering hot weather.
12. Purchase eco-friendly solar panels increase the market value of your house. It’s cost savings and reduce your monthly utility bills on energy too. Further, it is eco friendly as each kilowatt per hour of solar that it generates will absolutely decrease the greenhouse gas emission plus reduces water consumption. Rooftop solar is environment friendly, for it doesn’t need additional natural land uses whilst some types of energy disrupt natural resources.

Long-term strategies

1. Have a ground in your house garden and backyard where herbs, fruit trees and veggies are being cultivated.
2. Continuously plant massive mangroves in coastal areas which prevent erosion, flooding, impacts from storm and tsunamis. The river and sediments are being trapped by the roots of the mangrove thus prevents erosion, etc.
3. Massive reforestation and sustainable agriculture per region, per nation. And plant trees at the national botanical gardens, forest or at a public recreation area or a huge park usually cultivated with plants and trees which makes forests resilient to climate change and climate crisis.
4. The Wind Driven Turbines for generating electricity are highly essential. A fence for converting wind power into an electricity, global energy management, stability and sustainability, global engineering solutions.
5. Stock on massive seeds and seedlings of all variety of plants, fruits and veggies and essential trees like Oaktree, Narra tree, veggies, fruit trees etc. in a special room per nation.
6. Stock on a massive foods and crops per family and per nation like what Joseph the Dreamer did for the people in the ancient times to prepare for what’s to come.
7. Research and be zealous on what the advance countries are preparing for specific future goal for a sustainable increase in global warming, climate crisis, famine and hunger—for all nations.
8. Employ the great minds of the pragmatic scientists from various fields in engineering, earth science, environmental science, geologists, atmospheric chemistry and physics etc. to help unravel the equation and resolve this climate crisis global warming issues in your geographical regions so as you won’t be caught unaware and be surprised for the time and tide who are all adept with fuel cells, solar power generation technologies, energy recovery technologies, hydrogen energy technologies, geothermal energy technologies, biomass energy technologies etc. per nation.
9. Habitually Seek wisdom and help from your local praying congregational pastors to intervene for your nation and the microscopic populace, otherwise your nations won’t make it at all. Let’s face it, we can’t perpetually make it in this world without God—we’re all just but a Lilliputian compared to a resolute God, yet exceedingly compassionate to those who seek God’s face.
10. Pray and learn to submit to God’s will. Prayer changes our focus by having habitual communication with God. (2 Chronicles 7: 14 If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will heal their land). (Psalm 145:18 The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him).

Having an earth-shattering disintegration of solid ice, characterized by an intense roaring of the surface of the earth and all its natural resources from landslides to earthquakes, overwhelming rising of body of waters, the coming drought and famine, wars and rumors of wars, etc. has been incessantly and will be continually felt all over the globe.

These things are entirely of relating to in accord with the Holy Book to prepare for the great second Coming of our Risen King the Lord of all Lords, the Name of all Names, the King of all Kings or which in this epoch called global warming.

No less than the bible says things related to the global climate crisis:

• Matthew 5:18 – For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
• Matthew 24: 35 – Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.
• Luke 21: 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.
• Revelation 21: 1-3 – … and I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepare as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.
• Revelation 21: 22 – And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb). This all signifies that this temporary world will be no more as a new one refers to the new heaven and a new earth—the Kingdom come of the Almighty God the Father and the Lord Jesus with His people. In Revelation, John writes about the new heaven and new earth in the eternal state with God the Father and Lord Jesus. Cast all your cares to God, for He truly cares for you—”PRAY”.

Related Readings

1. How to Help Stop Climate Change: 16 Eco Friendly Tips
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