Current environmental Issues and how YOU can help Our environment is deteriorating every single second as we continue to waste our natural resources indiscriminately and fail to control our scrap. Current environmental problems are making us vulnerable to diseases and tragedies. Unless we give these problems the required attention and address them, the future generations of this planet will be doomed. 1. Greenhouse Gases Climate change, or global warming, is the greatest environmental threat the world has ever faced. The cause of that? Emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The global carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases has exceeded 400 parts per million. This level is considered a “tipping point”. What is a tipping point exactly? A tipping point in the climate system is a threshold that, when exceeded, can lead to large irreversible changes in the state of the system, which has already started occurring. ...