Current Affairs Reaction: Globalization and Climate Change

Name: Instructor: Institution: Date: Current Affairs Reaction Chapter 1: (Globalization and Climate Change) Considering the economic steps that China is undertaking, is the county turning the Middle East to a global economic center? In its effort to achieve global economic status, China has built rail and highway routes from eastern China to Scandinavia. In addition, the country is pondering on a shipping lane that will connect Quanzhou to Venice, Malaysia, Ethiopia and Egypt (Mauk, 2019). In Africa, China has already signed bilateral ties with more than 23 countries. As a result, China’s desire for globalization is significantly far beyond the Middle East. Climate change is real and the idea that people do not know what is causing climate change is absurd. The article “Evidence for Man-Made Global Warming Hits 'Gold Standard” Scientists” (2019), reports that the burning of fossil fuels is the main source of climate change as it has resulted in more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels. Therefore, it is human activities that have contributed to the worrying level of climate change that the article calls "gold standard" Consequently, greenhouse gases must be eliminated from the atmosphere to reduce the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chapter 2: (Religion in Europe, migration crisis in Europe, and the European Union) Among the many religion in Europe’s, are some more special than the others? This is a question that has hounded the Jewish community since the Nazi error. The religion has never been popular in Europe to the extent of suffering attacks in form of anti-Semitism, hatred, xenophobia from the Nazi group. However, rather than just lying low, the Jewish community organized a rally in Sofia, Bulgaria to protests against far-right activities towards them. According to “World Jewish Congress concerned about neo-Nazism in Europe” (2019), all European countries should protect the Jewish by imposing administrative bans against Nazism activities that threaten the religion. Germany, France, and Italy are the main pillars of the European Union; hence should the two countries bear the migration crisis that the union is going through? On its part, Germany has been gradually deporting immigrants over the few years. Through its lower house, the government placed Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia as “safe countries of origin” This means asylum seekers or refugees from these countries cannot enter Germany. On the other hand, Hungary and Greece have refused to take it refugees from fellow European countries. Atika (2019) argues that Germany’s actions show how E.U countries ran away from their responsibility of treating humans with care. To the west of Europe is the Brexit that is causing anxiety while to th...