Argumentative Essay On Global Environment

Environmental climate change, and environmental inequalities are topics that need to be addressed globally, although to bring about changes perhaps the best way to do so is through working with local environmental agencies and the people that are being directly affected.

Angela Park quotes Angela Johnson Mezaros in Everybody’s Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change as stating the belief that most mainstream environmentalists view the environment as “…someplace over there. You get in your car and drive to it. It’s not something you’re a part of. There is little space in that definition to incorporate concerns in ways that resonate with others who define the environment differently.”1 Environment means many things depending on who

The scales of environmental justice weigh far more heavily in favor of the wealthy, while many others (such as the poor around the globe) feel the effects of the global economy in a whole different way. For example, let’s think about consumerism within the United States. We are a country that consumes in abundance, in fact, it is estimated that those in the United States make up about five percent of the population while using about twenty-five percent of the worlds energy (such as oil, and coal).2 In reality, among all the countries in the world, the United States comes in at number two in terms of Carbon Dioxide emissions, only behind China.3 The United States makes up five percent of the World’s population, and contributes the second highest amount of Carbon Dioxide. The United States is a major factor in terms of global pollution, and the countries that are contributing considerably less in terms of pollution are being affected by climate changes in far greater

The “need” for these products is pushed heavily on society through advertising, with a particular focus aimed at young, hip audiences. Companies create the “need” for the logo. With the need for the logo in high demand, in what better way, for the companies, is there to gain huge profits off of their products than having them made in countries such as: Taiwan, Vietnam, and Thailand? Yet that is not the sole reason for production overseas, there are other reasons that companies, such as Nike, produce in countries such as these, which can include the following: the ability to severely underpay their employees, and having them work long hours in hazardous conditions that would not be legal in places such as the United States. Companies are consciously operating under conditions such as these, which help to create further inequalities, while also contributing to pollution in the areas where the production is