The earth is experiencing ecological and environmental issues caused by global warming. The earth is changing drastically and it is up to the American people to get up and do something about it. Why Bother? written by Michael Pollan opens the reader's eyes in a compelling way to global warming and other related environmental issues. Pollan uses rhetorical strategies such as the use of current and past events, pathos, and ethos to persuade his readers “to bother” (312) and start thinking more about the environmental issues that involves everyone. Pollan tries to persuade his reader by looking at these global issues from many different standpoints.…
Al Gore is a politician and environmentalist that gave his speech “Climate Emergency” at Yale School of Forestry in 2004. He also presented it during the presidential campaign that same year. He argues that the Earth’s environment is in fact vulnerable, and that humans have a big impact on it. In his speech he uses scientific facts, statistics, maps, and graphs to demonstrate. Gore explains why he used the title “Climate Emergency”, “it is intended to convey what it conveys- that this is a crisis with an unusual sense of urgency attached to it, and we should see it as an emergency. The fact that we don’t, or that most people don’t is part of what I want to cover here” (Gore, 861)…
In the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore offers a rallying cry to his audience in an attempt to gather support to help fight the Earth’s climate crisis. In order to do this, he presents his audience with a variety of facts on the issue of global warming and provides stories on his background experiences as an environmentalist. He details his experiences studying global warming, his involvement with environmental Senate hearings that led nowhere, and he lays out solid facts about the Earth’s atmospheric issues to ascertain his credibility as an environmentalist. For example, he references the failure of the Kyoto Treaty to appeal to Congress and how it may have helped significantly reduce carbon emissions…
Global Warming is an issue demanding of world wide attention, yet widely ignored. Global Warming will change our planet drastically yet under the benefit of cheap energy we do nothing to shrink our carbon footprints. Many ignore the topic of Climate Change as they don’t believe in it, or simply don't understand why they should bother. This is exactly what Michael Pollan trys to argue in his article, “Why Bother?”, published by The New York Times,…
“A Climate Repair Manual” by Gary Stix is about the debate of global warming. The ramifications of not initiating programs to stem the problem is “the most scientific and technical challenge that humanity has ever faced”. Stix addresses the issue of international governments needing to work together to attain “restructuring of the world’s energy economy”. Stix goes on to give various possible low-carbon energy alternatives, such as “biofuels, solar, hydrogen, and nuclear” and that inaction far out weighs “the feared economic damage” that nations face.…
We are faced with a dilemma that is no longer a distant threat, but ladies and gentleman we are not discouraged. Rather we face this challenge not as an obstacle but as an opportunity to move forward as a nation. Climate change is not something that will happen, because it’s happening right now.…
Additionally, concern is also focused and geared towards the economic and social struggles in the lack of environmental policy, including environmental racism and justice. While President Nixon created the Environment Protection Agency, others after him, such as President George H.W. Bush’s Administration revisited these victories by leading America to losses for it’s environmentalists. With so many failed attempts in gathering the loyal attention from the public in decades, and engaging them in how important and absolutely necessary it is in creating and maintaining an environment in which fossil fuels, carbon emissions, rises in sea levels, and hazards to aquatic life, are constantly fought against, there needs to be more strength in how the scientific information is shared. Additionally, the lack of consistency and cooperation from differing parties regarding the importance of climate change and global warming, especially in Congress, continuously hurts the work the United States can accomplish in combating climate change. Today, President Obama is criticized for his work towards environmental policy. However, the Obama Administration has been a leading force in the fight for a healthier and more green future, and that has been evident in the policies he has been pushing through with the Environmental Protection…
Murphy, K. and Irwin, A. (2012) Towards Climate Justice: a strategy guide for the community…
Climate change is more serious now more than ever as the past six years has been our warmest years on record. Al Gore’s (2006) documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ concluded that:…
National leaders, like Donald Trump, don’t initially see the drastic importance of this issue and surpass it as a hoax further establishing its impact and severity as well as outlying the negligence of our superiors and their restricted actions in finding a resolution. In an article released after the inauguration ceremony that took place this year it was stated that, “The Trump Administration has erased the climate and energy webpages distributed by former president barack Obama. The program replacing climate change initiatives, visualizes a country that taps into U.S fossil fuel supply, yet does not display any sort of view on the increasing climate change issues as well as mentions no such addresses to its solution” (Kahn). In the past…
One of the most current issues concerning modern times would be climate change. Because of this issue, it has caused controversy among many people. In recent times, many scientists have agreed that climate change is a real phenomena. However, despite the current scientific backings by a number of accredited scientists, very little has been done to try to solve this predicament. To me, the problem of addressing climate change would be due to a variety of political reasons. Many politicians around the world believe this whole issue to be a hoax because it is either some grand scheme to destroy industrialization and the advancement of civilization or that this idea contrasts greatly with their political ideals. The government’s role of making…
Climate change or also know as greenhouse effect is the major problem that we are facing right now. Our ozone layer gets more and more thinner due to excessive carbon emission that we make from our day to day activities and the equiptments and machineries that we use. It is very harmful to our environment and we need to act on it quickly to be able to gradually lessen these harmful effects. In humankind’s pursuit of well-being, we both influence and respond to climate. Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases affect the heat balance of the Earth, and the resulting changes in precipitation patterns, temperature extremes and rising sea levels affect how society develops. The dynamic interaction between humans and climate is not new, but the scale of the interaction has reached unprecedented proportions. Climate research at the Earth Institute spans multiple disciplines. While climate scientists study the effects of increased temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide on the world’s oceans and weather patterns, engineers are seeking ways to produce cleaner energy and provide steady supplies of fresh water. Social scientists, policy experts and lawyers are studying human behavior in the face of change as a way to improve how we make decisions, and the policy and legal tools we can use to implement measures that address the climate challenge. The Columbia Climate Center integrates research from throughout the University and across…
“This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to droughts, more severe wildfires--all these things are having an impact on americans as we speak.” - U.S. President Barack Obama. Global warming is an issue filled to the brim with side effects, spilling all over the world right now. When people talk about it, they seem to take it a lot lighter than it is truly. It is causing more extreme weather, including droughts, hurricanes, floods, and fires. Do you know how many lives extreme weather has taken? 606,000 people have died from floods, droughts, and extreme storms. While 4.1 million people have been injured or made homeless. According to U.N. Officials the death toll will only increase, just like our temperatures. Allow me to slow down, after all, this isn’t an informative piece, but a persuasive one.…
The topic should address the three keywords in the essay title – ‘know’, ‘will’, ‘do’: our knowledge of climate change, our attitudes and values about climate change, and our…
global warming should not be a task that citizens of the world should relegate only to the…