A Discussion on the Social Factors Influencing Climate Changes

Climatic changes has been a major concern in the recent researches. The changes have negatively affected the production across the world and also the human lives are at stake. There are so many occurrences of unpredicted climatic effects such as the drought occurrences and the tides which affects the people at the shoes due to hurricanes. The unpredicted climatic changes have been as a result of the many factors. One of the most amazing thing is that climatic changes have been caused by the social factors.

Climatic changes is therefore attributable to certain sociological perspectives.

The climatic changes have occurred in various social contexts. One of the social context is the political economy is one major sociological contribution to the climatic changes. This arises from the intersection of the political orders as well as the economic orders. In such cases the people wants to improve their living standards through the political ways. As such, the political economists agree that the fact that they climatic changes is not only caused by the planetary physical systems but rather by the politicians, natural scientists as well as the politicians.

Some of the social theories such like treadmill of production by Allan Schnaibergs, Metabolic Rift by Bellamy Foster and Social Metabolism by Marina Fischer –Kowalski helps in analysis of how the carbon emissions into the air is a social cause. The carbon emissions have great effects on the global climate and especially to the social and economic organizations in today’s industries. The world political economy shows that there exists a great link between the national economy and also the political organisations, population demographics and the resources extraction regimes with their carbon dioxide emissions.

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The emitted carbon dioxide promotes the global warming.

The human ecology is another social context under which the climatic changes could be traced. It has its own environmental impacts in that there is a complex relationship between the human beings and their natural surroundings. Human ecology emphasises on the socio- special dynamics of the climatic changes and the varied interactions which the human beings have with their surrounding physical environments in the temporal and spatial scales. The sociologists applied the place based approach to get to the basis of why people migrate, how they solve environmental disasters as well as the way they compete for the inadequate resources. This has led to the evidence that the climatic changes could be related to the human beings biophysical environments. The environmental sociology has shown the social causes of the environmental changes. The data collected by the researchers has indicated the carbon dioxide emissions is also related to the levels of consumption, the scale of the population and also the pace of the flow of the material. Hence the human ecology is a social aspect which also affects the changes in the environment.

The status attainment effects and stratification on the production and consumption areas is also another social effect of the climatic changes. As such, the sociologists have tried to analyse the social factors which affect the improved production and consumption that have led to the increase in wastes and throughput in the economy. The social dynamics have led to conspicuous consumption and the status display that there are very many advertisements which lead the consumers to take too much without considering the environmental impacts on the uptake. As the demand for the products increase, more production happens and these emits the wastes to the environment especially the toxic gases emitted to the air hence causing global warming. This has also affected the personal construction and spending of the money. The role of advertising as well as the public relations firms has indicated that people have tried to gain class with the effect drawing back to the environmental pollution whose eventuality is the drastic changes in the climate. 

Some of the cultural practices have also caused changes in the climate. As such, use of qualitative and quantitative means have indicated that some of the social and cultural processes shape the discourses, attitudes as well as the ideological dimensions of the climatic changes in the public debates and also the policy processes. The research on the cultural and meaning systems have assessed the attitudes which the people and organisations have on the climate and those which shape their knowledge and opinions on the changes in the climate. Most people have denied the climatic changes and hence they continue with their old practices without learning the effects to the environment. They therefore do not adapt to the climatic changes and hence they are less of the causes of the drastic changes.

Some of the social theories such like treadmill of production by Allan Schnaibergs, Metabolic Rift by Bellamy Foster and Social Metabolism by Marina Fischer –Kowalski helps in analysis of how the carbon emissions into the air is a social cause. The carbon emissions have great effects on the global climate and especially to the social and economic organizations in today’s industries. The world political economy shows that there exists a great link between the national economy and also the political organisations, population demographics and the resources extraction regimes with their carbon dioxide emissions. The emitted carbon dioxide promotes the global warming.

 My explanations on the climatic changes as a sociological effect is quite different from any lay man’s explanation. I have based my view on deep research and statistics. I have read broadly to obtain the context and hence I have been able to come up with some of the aspects which are sociological based and those that have led to the increase in the changes of climate. Therefore my research is well supported by information from the documentations.