Throughout human history, our attitude to the environment has exponentially grown to be quite detrimental. In the earliest days we would, as small groups, settle in a suitable location and survive, but our impact on the environment was not too noticeable. However, as we developed and became more intelligent, our nomadic ancestors would become more and more damaging to the environment, lighting fires to clear out massive tracts of land, for example. The past ten thousand years, however, has been the most devastating, and of that, the past three hundred years, the worst. We went from being environmentally disastrous as ancient agricultural societies, transforming into great Roman empires and such, into the Dark and Middle Ages, where we grew careless of the environment, into the Industrial Revolution, where, especially in the British Empire, humankind had no regard whatsoever to the environment. Soot blanketed the great fields and forests around urban buildups, white moths evolved to become black moths to camouflage with the soot. Humans pumped dirty, harmful smog into the atmosphere, and along with the exponential amount of knowledge we were discovering, came the enormous growth of population, hence destroying even further environment to pave way for society to proceed. As such, enormous, irreversible environmental effects occurred, many of which are quickly driving our planet to uninhabitability. Today, we call this 'climate change'.

Today, we live with the consequences of what we and our past ten or so generations have collectively done to our planet. Our temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting and hence, oceans rising, species are becoming extinct every day, our forests are disappearing and we are milking our planet's resources dry. In the past thirty or so years, however, our way of thinking has shifted dramatically out of awareness of climate change. As such, the global initiative today is to reduce the level of damage to our planet through sustainable lifestyles, 'greener' pollution-free energy production, environmentally friendly transport, packaging and farming methods, and through global politics, unity in restoring our planet into a much more hospitable place as close to originality as physically possible.

This report will investigate the effects of climate change, for the planet and for ourselves, the various viewpoints of debate over the cause of climate change, and how one country, in this case Sweden, is acting to combat the detrimental effects of climate change.