Who Is To Blame For Climate Change

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Are you to blame for climate change, or is it just a natural cycle of the Mother Earth it self. People have been burning and cutting down trees for as long as we've been here. Many people around the world are affected by it, for example a Mt.Edgecumbe alumni Nelson Kanuk(Supreme). Nelson’s remote village of Kipnuk has been affected by climate change by erosion of the bank, melting of permafrost, and flooding because of the warm temperatures causing the ice to melt too fast. His house is in jeopardy because his house on the bank of the river, the land is eroding away.
Others disagree.
Some may say this is a natural cycle of the earth, and that some natural factors are emitting CO2 into the atmosphere which causes the atmosphere to keep more heat in. While volcanos put out 315 million tons of Co2 every year, human activity such as motor vehicles, factories, and burning of fossil fuels all create an amount of 30 billion tons of Co2 annually(Climate). Our earth is fragile; consequently, resources are limited(9). To keep our earth from total destruction we as the humans of …show more content…

Right now it’s is rising at a rate of 3.4mm per year(NASA). Melting ice caps can be a contributive factor to this problem. Some may say we are just coming out of an ice age. I wouldn’t consider 11,700 years ago that close of a year too us. That is more than ten millenniums away from us. We need to relocate these people at some point they're not only going to lose homes, they are going to lose people, and ancient cultures. These are american citizens and they are our people too. Kivalina, Alaska, an endangered village, is in trouble(10). This village in northwest Alaska only has ten more years before it’s submerged under water and all is lost. President Obama proposed 400 million to Alaska to relocate these villages, and he also became the first president to visit Alaska and see these problems first

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