After listening to the recent republican debate, I couldn 't help but notice the time that was devoted to the topic of climate change. It was brought up but gets quickly pushed aside for other “serious” topics. After hearing the thoughtless discussion, I was asking myself the same questions. Is climate change worth discussing? Is it real? Does anyone care? Can we fix it? I always ask myself but I never change my viewpoint. It 's real, it is worth discussing, and everyone should care. This is a huge issue that doesn 't get talked about and when it is talked about, it gets overlooked. Whether or not we can fix it is up to the people. Every time I mention climate change to my friends it soon becomes a topic for the people who care. I 've …show more content…
Not only will this save you money, but this will also help reduce the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal. The biggest contributing gas is CO2. CO2 is released by daily human activities such as riving and cutting wood. An interesting idea from NRDC is that congress needs to enact a law that cap carbon emissions and require polluters to pay for global warming gasses they produce. This seems like a step in the right direction. Being a smart driver helps. What I mean is that if all drivers kept the air in their tires at sufficient levels, NRDC predicts the gasoline usage would come down 2%. Burying cleaner products that support clean energy. Good examples are home appliances. Energy Star is tagged on all the fridges, washing machines, and other appliances to promote clean energy. If you like me and you drive a lot, it might be hard to cut down. Instead when your on the market for a car try looking at a hybrid. BMW, Honda, and the slick looking Tesla models have added a ton of variety to the category. NRDC reports a 40mpg car saves around $3,000 in fuel costs compared to a non hybrid car with 20mpg. Again all these solutions seem minimal but in the long run the effects will have a major impact. I think we can reverse climate change completely over time. Not only by doing these little things but also using more technology that 's currently being worked on to support reversing climate …show more content…
We soon will be picking a new president. I 'm sure he or she will address the popular issues to talk about and things he or she will plan to change. Gun control, the national debt, ISIS, national security, and so much more. Where should climate change be involved? I believe this is and should be number 1 on the list. United States is the second highest in contributing to climate change. If our president doesn 't address this crisis then our produce rate will hardly decline. This should be above everything else because this effects literally everyone and everything. As the leading country of the world, we need to set the example for the rest of the countries. So far we have not been focusing on the topic at hand and are more worried about internal issues in our country. The “Point of No Return” for global warming is really close. According to ScientifcSmerica, the point of no return is when no matter what we do, no matter how many laws we have places, and no matter how much we cut our emissions, global warming has far past the point of no return. Most scientists already believe its too late. Being careless and doing absolutely nothing for years had a significant impact on the
Natural gas, Priuses, LEDs, hydropower, solar power, burning trash, or improving traffic is not the answer to becoming a green nation. People need to change their behavior in order to change their actions; everyone must take a stand and use cars less, use less electricity, and use less of everything, because less is enough. If we wish to discourage society from using excess energy there needs to be an increase in: prices of oil, electricity, worsened traffic, and denser city populations. There is a way to do this without having the populace revolt: increase the prices of these services or goods nevertheless offering a modest stipend for those who decrease usage. If we truly want to live on Earth for a prolonged period of time, then we need to take care of her but are we willing to change our consumer mentality for the future of our
Climate Change has become an incredibly controversial topic because of the bid to win votes. As with any successful political party, capital and supporters are needed to fund and support campaigns and activities to secure votes. The Democratic and Republican parties have taken opposite sides of the ring regardless of scientific proof. In relation to global warming, the Democrats represent the environmentalists in the green corner and the Republicans represent the current energy tycoons in the red corner. The two opposing parties are simply trying to one up each other with each rhetorical combination thrown. The more irrational or misconstrued the rhetoric, the more the crowd rooting for each fighter reacts and the more independents rally to
In the modern age climate change is a huge topic that is discussed in politics
The gradual warming of temperatures doesn’t just effect us though, there are numerous other plants and animals that will be threatened, or even pushed to extinction due to these changes. I believe it is our duty to fix the problem that we created, but it is more easily said than done. Megablazes, droughts, or even species extinction due to human stubbornness is unacceptable. Although climate change is a gradual issue, the factors that contribute to it need to be managed right away. Again, Global warming is caused by UV radiation reflecting between the ozone layer and the earth. The ozone consists of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, which humans are the main source of. If we could better manage our carbon dioxide and methane output through less omissions or a carbon tax, I think we could effectively begin to curb the problem of climate
Climate Change is costing the world millions of dollars and is the biggest issue facing society today. Climate change is causing greenhouse gases to build up, ice caps to melt, etc. Some people believe climate change is not a big issue. For instance in the article “Gospel of The Climate Change Deniers” it is stated, “Barton a guy who called Al Gore ‘totally wrong’ about global warming and advised people to get shade to adapt to rising temperatures” (Kroll). Although, this is an appealing mindset, it is illogical because climate change has many more effects than just warmer temperatures. For example, Frank Ackerman: an economist known for his work in environmental economics and Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton an environmental economist and
My parents grew up in small town in Mexico. There was a little river that went through part of the town when they were growing up. Every weekend or so they would go out and would go swimming with their families, it almost became a tradition to go swimming there until they noticed that the river 's water level was becoming smaller and smaller. Today there is no river anymore, instead it 's a road that travels through the town. Every time I visit my family in Mexico it would alway be nice and warm up until this year when I went in December. I remember waking up and getting ready to go to my aunt 's house in clothes for warm weather. As I open the door, the cold air punch me and I saw snowflakes falling down. It 's not supposed to snow in that
Climate change is on the rise. This is a fact that all real scientists have confirmed; climate change is the issue of the future. And the question is, how are you going to contribute to the fight against climate change? There are hundreds of ways that you can easily and economically help in this fight. We need to think about the future generations. We need to limit the work they will have to do to fix this planet. We only have one Earth, and we need to preserve it. By establishing a greener nation, we can produce a safer environment. We need to find a new method to reduce the pollution that is produced by commuting workers. Energy-efficient electricity is a must. We need to conserve water and recycle appropriately. The future of planet Earth is in our hands.
While Jamieson addresses many reasons why we are stuck with climate change his strongest argument is found in the fact that we as humans are not evolutionarily designed to process issues that occur on such a long time scale. Due to climate changes “gradual and uncertain rather than immediate and obvious” process we as humans cannot understand it (Jamieson, 102). In addition, climate changes effects have no geographical bounds and because very few people pay attention to events that occur beyond national boundaries most people are oblivious to its existence. Jamieson makes the point that climate change must be thought rather than sensed and we as humans are not very good at thinking (Jamieson, 103). On top of that even if we succeed in thinking that something is a threat, we are less reactive than if we sense that it is a threat. Since we cannot even comprehend climate changes presence in our world right now it also makes it extremely difficult for us to comprehend how our anthropogenic actions of today will affect future generations all over the world. Therefore, because climate change does not present itself visually to us, we as humans are not only unable to recognize the problem but would be unable to solve the problem as well. Resulting in the fact that we as humans are stuck with climate
I am writing to you in regards to addressing the serious problem of burning coal. Coal burning has become a serious problem all around the world, and it has a major effect on our global climate. Firstly, the process of burning coal gives off nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide, among other gases. Not only is coal burning the leading cause of acid rain, smog and toxic air pollution, but coal plants are the leading cause of global warming (Union of Concerned Scientists, n.d.).
Global warming is the biggest issue of our time and we are not taking it seriously enough. Global warming is an extremely bad issue that we need to take more seriously, because it depletes our O-zone layer, melt the ice caps and it increases the wildlife extinction rate. It is for these reasons that we are not taking global warming seriously enough.
Climate Change The issue of climate change has constantly been moving in and out of our government’s agenda for quite some time now. The cause of this fluctuation may be due to changes in public opinion, certain oppositions within Capitol Hill or certain issues are prioritized more than this very matter. Despite these realities, climate change has continuously remained on the news. Furthermore, recent extreme weather patterns certainly exhibit the detrimental effects of climate change.
I believe climate change is now more than ever the biggest challenge that humanity faces. For that reason, people and communities need to cooperate together in order combat climate change. Following Trump’s presidency, debates were being made by the administration whether to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Change agreement, executive orders were signed dismantling Obama’s climate policies like the Clean Power Plan, and EPA was commanded to remove climate change information from its website. Just when people are starting to take action about the serious and real threat that is climate change, the Trump administration is doing everything in their hands to deny its very existence by forgoing the facts, policies, and agreements made.
Many people dedicate their lives to spread the message about climate change being real. Even though some change in the climate is natural, many events that have happened cannot be explained away by nature. Climate change is causing damage to the world that is completely irreversible. Nasa says, “Most scientists say it 's very likely that most of the warming since the mid-1900s is due to the burning of coal, oil and gas. Burning these fuels is how we produce most of the energy that we use every day” (nasa). The energy that we use daily makes our life easier, but it hurts the earth. Why does the government still allow us to use these things? Science has shown us that sea levels are rising in many parts of the world. Warm weather is causing glaciers to melt which results in the sea level rising. Earth 's average temperature has been rising for the last century in a half; and there has also been a steady rise in ocean temperature since 1969. It is said that climate control is man made and it is dangerous. On the other side of the argument, many people do not believe that climate change is real. They argue that their has not been a big temperature change in almost two decades. They also bring up the point of there not being enough data in the climate history to draw the conclusion of what is happening in the climate now is abnormal. Scientist started to record climate change around the 1800’s which many people believe is not enough data to do a comparison. Another reason some believe that climate change is not real is because of some instances where a scientist predicts a date of a significant climate change never happens. Rinkesh writes, “ For example:- Al Gore predicted that all Arctic ice would be gone by 2013. But, on contrary Arctic ice is up by 50% since 2012” (conserve-energy-future). Many people find that these reasons are why climate change is not
Global warming is a major factor that has to be solved before all the effects begin to occur and it is too late to help.
Focused on the global environmental issues, the global warming seems to be a serious case to deal with. If the global warming ...