Gardener’s Guide To Global Warming: Challenges And Solutions

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Gardener’s Guide To Global Warming: Challenges And Solutions
By Patty Glick, Senior Global Warming Specialist, National Wildlife Federation

  * Publisher: National Wildlife Federation
  * Number Of Pages: 40
  * Publication Date: 5-08-2007
  * Binding: PDF

The Gardener’s Guide To Global Warming: Challenges And Solutions

FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, gardening is much more than a hobby—it is a passion. In 2005 alone, an estimated 91 million households participated in lawn and garden activities, spending more than $35 billion .

Whether you have just a few potted plants on the balcony or acres of flowers, fruit trees, and water features in the country, the garden provides solace and is a place for people to connect with nature and enjoy the beauty and bounty it has to offer. In many ways, our gardens are a window to the natural world around us.

Unfortunately, the view through that window is becoming increasingly clouded by global warming, which scientists have linked directly to human activities. In its most comprehensive assessment to date, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found global warming to be “unequivocal” and states with unprecedented certainty that this warming is due to greenhouse gas emissions largely from our burning fossil fuels.



Unless we take significant action to reduce this global warming pollution, we will face more frequent and severe weather extremes, including heat waves, droughts, and floods; the expansion of harmful invasive species, pests, and diseases; the disruption of ecosystems; and the extinction of thousands of species—all of which are disasters for nature, let alone gardeners. Ultimately, failure to halt global warming will mean that the world we leave for our children and grandchildren will be vastly less supportive of the people, plants, and wildlife than the one we cherish today.


SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL WARMING ARE IN GARDENERS’ HANDS

Although the predictions for global warming are dire, they are not inevitable. Just as the IPCC projects serious consequences if we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the current rate, it also concludes that global warming and its impacts will be significantly lessened if we start now on a path to reduce our global warming pollution.
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