Education of the Environment

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According to CQ Researcher, over the past 25 years a glacier found in the Peruvian Andes, that took around 1,600 years to form, has completely melted. Numerous studies have been run researching climate change and the affects of those changes are becoming increasing evident as time passes. These changes are being observed in every aspect of the environment whether that includes water sources, farmland, or even human lives itself. The issues related with a changing climate are continually becoming more important within the everyday life of Americans, but with that also comes the critics that are under the assumption that it is all a hoax and that the changes experienced are all a part of a cycle the Earth is undergoing. The lack of trust between researchers and the public is steadily increasing, and the only way that this dilemma can be fixed is to educate the public as to what is occurring around them with the environment. Students in the USA should be required to learn about environmental health to understand their personal impact on the environment, be thoughtful of their actions, and to promote better living conditions for not only themselves but future generations.
“The U.S. media devote significant attention to small numbers of denialists, who claim that scientific consensus assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are “exaggerated” and “political” (Freudenburg). The doubt that is felt then by the public is causing setbacks in efforts that are being made to regulate the amount of Greenhouse Gases being released into our atmosphere. In CQ Researcher it was also stated that only 3% of all research dealing with climate change signifies that humans have nothing to do with the envi...

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Freudenburg, William R. Muselli, Violetta. "Reexamining Climate Change Debates: Scientific Disagreement Or Scientific Certainty Argumentation Methods (Scams)?." American Behavioral Scientist 57.6 (2013): 777-795. Vocational and Career Collection. Web. 24 Feb. 2014.
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