10.0 GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
10.1 The concepts of global warming and climate change?
10.1.1 What is Global Warming?
Global warming is unusual increases of average surface temperature aver an area. Also global warming is the gradual heating of Earth's surface, oceans and atmosphere. Other scholars state that, global warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to effect of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat that would otherwise escape from Earth. This is a type of greenhouse effect.
10.1.2 What is Climate Change?
Climate change is the change of usual weather conditions found in a place. Another definition is “climate change is the long impact change of atmospheric conditions in a place”. It includes the change of rainfall, temperature, pressure, humidity, frost and other elements of weather.
Global warming and climate change are the phenomena that affect socio-economic and environmental aspects of life system of living and nonliving organisms. Therefore entrepreneurship activities are largely influenced with global warming and climate change as explained below
10.2 Global Warming/Climatic change and Entrepreneurship
Global warming and climate change are the phenomena that affect socio-economic and environmental aspects of life system of living and nonliving organisms. Therefore entrepreneurship activities are largely affected by global warming and climate change as explained below
1. Rising Seas: Outpouring of fresh water marshlands (the everglades), low-lying cities, and islands with seawater. The land become no arable and for other entrepreneurial activities.
2. Changes in rainfall patterns: droughts and fires in some areas, flooding in other areas. See the section above on the recent droughts, leading to agricultural entrepreneurial based production loss and the emergence of different diseases.
3. Increased likelihood of extreme events: such as flooding, hurricanes, drought etc. Again this destroy entrepreneurial production and business activities.
4. Melting of the ice caps: loss of habitat near the poles. Polar bears are now thought to be greatly endangered by the shortening of their feeding season due to dwindling ice packs. The effects which also endanger entrepreneurs’ works.
5. Melting glaciers: significant melting of old glaciers is already observed. In which other tourism based activities and its associated facilities.
6. Widespread disappearing of animal populations: following widespread habitat loss and the entrepreneurs’ engagement activities.
7. Spread of disease: migration of diseases such as malaria to new, now warmer, regions. This also contributes much on the destruction of entrepreneurs’ activities.
8. Bleaching of Coral Reefs due to warming seas and acidification due to carbonic acid formation: One third of coral reefs now appear to have been severely damaged by warming seas. This causes the threat on tourism sector and fish birth.
9. Low market level due to poor products and poor income to the customers
10. Loss of Plankton due to warming seas: The enormous (900 mile long) Aleution island ecosystems of orcas (killer whales), sea lions, sea otters, sea urchins, kelp beds, and fish populations, appears to have collapsed due to loss of plankton, leading to loss of sea lions, leading to eat too many sea otters, leading to harm explosions, leading to loss of good sea beds and their associated fish populations.
Efforts of entrepreneurs in mitigating the effects associated with global warming and climate change
v Social entrepreneurs are among those best positioned to improve the lives of the poor and mitigate global warming. Clean cook-stove entrepreneurs, for example, aspire to limit deforestation and reduce carbon emissions, while simultaneously providing a safer way for the poor to prepare their food than open fires, often fueled by charcoal.
v Technologies and business models emerging from social entrepreneurs that provides clean energy for the underserved. This represents a clear convergence of social enterprise and climate change mitigation.
v Some social entrepreneurs that offer solar-powered lanterns as alternatives to carbon-producing kerosene lamps afford another example of climate change mitigation converging with benefits for the poor. etc ………..
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