About the Charity
About the Charity
R.H.N. stands for Respect and Honour Nature formerly (Robin, Harry, Nick Survey- the three founders) . The charity is an environmental awareness and action organisation set up by British youths.
The charity has three main aims:
1. Raise public awareness of climate change and global warming, especially in the current generation and the future ones to come.
2. Educate the public about the dangers and consequences of global warming.
3. Raise funds for our campaigns helping to conserve endangered species and rainforests around the world.
How and when was the charity created?
R.H.N. was originally an innocent survey by three teenagers called: Robin Johnson, Harry Kalfayan and Nick Cosburn in the summer of 2007. They travelled around Kenwood Park asking members of the public about if they believed in climate change, did not believe in climate change or if they were unaware of it. The result shocked the teenagers as the large majority was that people did not care about climate change or amazingly did not know what it was! Therefore they set up a website to raise awareness about climate change and global warming.
Who Runs The Charity Nowadays?
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Environmental Matters
Why Make Environmental Charities a Higher Priority to Donate to than other charities?
Many people donate money to charities like Malaika Kids, Help for Heroes and other charities designed to help people in need around the world. If people donate money to these charities, then yes, people do benefit, however when climate change and global warming occurs then the people, being helped, die anyway from the consquences of global warming. Therefore it is more important to deal with the priorities of global warming and then attend to the secondary objectives like 'Help a London Child' or helping African children.
What is Climate Change and Global Warming?
We produce so much CO2, (for example factories, cars and the burning of fossil fuels), that our fragile planet cannot cope. CO2 and other greenhouse gases trap the heat from the Sun's rays in the atmosphere so that the atmosphere warms up as the rays cannot pass out of the atmosphere. Therefore it inflicts a whole new problem, as Greenland's ice sheet is melting, this results in the freshwater pushing the saltwater down therefore cutting the North Atlantic Drift a.k.a. Gulf Stream, which would result in another ice age on Europe, as the current adds enough degrees of heat to prevent another ice age, (therefore this shows that the Mediterranean climate will not appear in Britain so they will not benefit from climate change). The warm countries however will become warmer and warmer until unbearable to live in.
Rising sea levels, from icebergs melting, pose an extremely strong threat on all of us as it will cause a severe series of massive floods in lowland countries if we keep producing such high levels of greenhouse gases. But that is not it, when you heat water it expands very slightly, however if we warm up our atmosphere and warm up the sea then that will happen on a huge scale, so this is a "double whammy."The Sun has also been at its dimmest (coldest) for over a hundred years; it will be likely heat up soon. It is predicted in less than 20 years most lowland countries like the Netherlands will be completely flooded due to climate change. Its not the only thing, 200,000 acres of rainforest are being chopped down every day. Trees take in carbon dioxide, one of the main greenhouse gases and produce oxygen so they are essential to life on Earth, but because so many trees are being chopped down, scientists believe that if we continue we will face even harsher effects of climate change and a smaller percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere. There is discussion whether we can beat climate change, but if we can make our emissions reduce by 2015 and everyone contributes we can beat climate change otherwise wewill face a runaway climate change. Global Warming is now so critical,that it has been rated even more important than terrorism, (see Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth').