Race and Ethnic Relations: Giddens suggests that the central problem in this piece is climate change that is brought by the emission of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. One of the major factors that have contributed to the problem is that the three dominant energy sources across the globe i.e. gas, oil, and coal produce huge amounts of greenhouse gases. The pollution of the atmosphere through industrialization processes, which are major characteristics of today's society, has also contributed to the problem of climate change. Industrial revolution was primarily fueled by the scientific and technological advances that turned coal into a vibrant source of energy. These advancements resulted in the change from burning wood as a basic source of fuel to increased dependence on coal. The change into use of coal as a major energy source...

Some of the controversies on peak oil are intense as issues surrounding global warming with the debates regarding the two issues resembling each other. Actually, the technologies needed to lessen the vulnerability of people to energy shortfalls and emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere are similar. While the emergence of coal as a prime energy source replaced the use of wood, oil has never substituted coal but only challenged its dominance. Some of the attempts to address concerns on energy shortfalls have been centered on climate change policy and the need to control the emission of greenhouse gases.
As a major concern in the entire world, global warming is considered as a social problem that continues to affect the lives of the whole human population. While global warming affects the environment, it's a social problem because it has a huge impact on human populations worldwide. The impact of the global warming problem on…