China, Melting Ice Proper Regulations

¶ … China, Melting Ice

Proper regulations are compulsory in management/leadership to address life-threatening situations for all to benefit.

Increasing global temperatures are causing Antarctic ice sheet to melt rapidly.

As a global disaster, relevant regulations will limit release of carbon dioxide and other green house gases.

China's rapid growing economy caused the gap between the poor and the rich to increase.

Proper leadership will address human basic needs creating equality, hence increasing domestic demand.

Gap in China, Melting Ice

According to Eilperin Juliet's article "Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting Rapidly," dated March 3, 2006, global warming has considerably increased temperatures over the world at alarming rates, and causing ice to melt from the Antarctic faster and this would not change in the near future. In addition, new publication ascertains these claims and that for unfortunate continents like Africa; they might be losing a significant number of her water sources.

Due to the increasing global temperatures, data obtained by NASA in Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), ascertains that the sea levels are rising by 0.4 millimeters annually and since the Antarctic considerably holds approximately 90% of the ice water in the world, its melting can cause as much as 20 feet rise in sea levels. These happenings according to Velicogna as narrated in Eilperin "Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting Rapidly" article are indications that people should get concerned about global warming.

However, there are contradictions on whether the ice is shrinking or forming in Antarctic. This has resulted from a later study that predicted its increase but due to the increasing temperatures, it is certain the Antarctic ice sheet is melting as computer models predict despite the Antarctic researches turning out to be puzzles as Taylor reported in Eilperin's "Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting Rapidly" article.

Because water remains a basic commodity for survival, its amount fluctuations, in either extremes can prove to be devastating. For countries like in Africa, drying of essential water sources means death to human, animal and plant life rendering the continent uninhabitable. For the people who live at sea level locations, not necessarily Africa, increase of sea levels means displacement or even death resulting to pressure on existing dry lands. Therefore, to manage climate change, which is a global nightmare, regulations must be in place to limit the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases released to atmosphere irrespective of the countries status in development.

On a different note, Spencer Richard argues in his November 17, 2008 article "Gap Between China's Rich and Poor," that countries like China, that have experienced rapid developments has left parts of the country in poor conditions. The rapid growth has widened the gap between the poor and the rich, creating even extra hurdles to the fast growing economy. Within a span of three decades, greater percentage of Chinese citizens have benefited from the economic growth that has been export-oriented. However, the faster growth rate has led to low consumption rates both domestic and foreign.

As Spencer claims, lack of proper government policies that did not mind the welfare of the workers, have forced a great percentage of workforce to saving for their important packages rather than spending the earnings. This condition has pushed the government to the limits forcing them to consider foreign exchange savings as options to bail out international financial institutions and increase domestic spending.