Saturday, December 8, 2012

What can be done?

Switch to alternative energy sources
 
It is very important that we slow the rapidly moving process of global warming one of the most obvious ways to accomplish this is to reduce our dependence on fuel sources that become greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane. If this happens, the melting of the permafrost in all areas of the tundra across the world would at the very least become constant and not consistently worse, which in turn, would slow the process of the toxins being released from the thawing permafrost itself.

Establish proteced areas and park reserves

Setting aside safe areas in which the animals and plant life are free from human harm can do wonders for the species facing exinction due to climate change and hunting.

Limit road construction, mining activities and house building

 Such activites put an enorumous amount of pressure on the ecoystem and cause the permafrost to melt at an even faster rate. Mining depletes this biome of its much needed resources and also damages the soil as well as the ice underneath. The tundra is a biome that takes a lot of time to recover from such harsh disruptions to its environment. It is even said that it would take over one hundred years to restore the tundra back to the state it was before the human impacts became so destructive.


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