Dear climate change activist group,
I am writing you this letter because I believe
that something needs to be done about human participation in destroying out
planet.
Human use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess
greenhouse gases. By driving cars, using
electricity from coal-fired power plants, or heating our homes with oil or
natural gas, we release carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the
atmosphere. Our waist and toxic chemical waste has no way of being destroyed.
Instead of a recyclable cycle, humans have created a one direction process in
which goods are made. They are made to make money quickly and be thrown away so
that one may have to go buy another.
Because of the
staggering rate at which people can save money by disposing greenhouse gasses
and other toxic wastes in habitually harming ways, the few people in charge of
the biggest companies in the USA do so unsparingly. More and more waist is
being dumped because of your ever soring population. If nothing changes, within
the next few years will begin to see more and more natural disasters, climate
change, and human deaths due to the lack of caring about our planet. The lack
of understanding that humans caused climate change is a large issue as well.
Deforestation
keeps occurring, which greatly affects the rate at which “global warming is
occurring” occurs. We are eliminating our only chance at keeping clean air for
our grandchildren to breathe.
Deforestation is another significant source of
greenhouse gases, because fewer trees mean less carbon dioxide conversion to
oxygen. The world’s rain forests could completely
disappear in a hundred years at the current increasing rate of
deforestation. The biggest contributor of deforestation is agriculture.
Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing
livestock. many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their
families by planting more crops and cutting down forests and burning brush and
lumber debris in something known as
“slash and burn” agriculture. Loggers are also one of the main reasons
forests have disappeared so rapidly. Loggers often illegally chop down
protected forests for gross profit paying to attention to the animals, and
beautiful plants they destroy. A job is a job. On the other hand, some
deforestation is caused by a combination of human and natural factors. Wildfires
and overgrazing (that prevents baby trees to grow) often take part in hurting
the overall sustainability of forests. It
amazes me that people can’t see the direct correlation between climate change
and deforestation. We continue to produce more toxins, and destroy our only source
of clean, life sustaining air. This makes absolutely no sense.
No one believes global warming is happening,
relevant, or even important. People
today put daily life and consumption above how badly we have hurt our planet by
doing it. The evidence that our waist has been negatively affecting earth has
been around for a long time and gradually growing. Many people still chose to
believe that our toxic waste, our greenhouse and other gas emissions, and our
unrecyclable goods have had a negative impact on our planet and our future
here. Only 18 % of Americans felt
that destroying our over populating planet should be “highest” priority for
President Obama and Congress in a January Washington Post/ABC News poll. Our own planet, the one that the
congress and the president live on, is less important than the other eight subjects
asked about in the poll.
In 2009
according to a “Pew Research Center survey”,
the general public is unsure, therefor afraid about two major things when it
comes to climate change: just about 69% believe that it’s happening, and only 42
% say it’s mostly because of humans. That means there are still so many people
who don’t care about our own planet that me may never be able to fully recover
from the damage we are causing. More than
one-third of the public believed climate scientists who say “global warming” is
real make their conclusions based on money and politics, not on hard facts. Most importantly, in a March Gallup polls, 6 in 10
people don’t think global warming
will seriously threaten them during their lifetimes. That means that people
have become accustomed to exploiting earth for its resources and atmosphere for
short term profit, money.
What good will your money be if you have no
planet to spend your money on. In my opinion if we don’t start to try and
conserve our resources and find alternatives to dumping trash and greenhouse gases,
our planet will be uninhabitable in no time at all. The population growth keeps
escalating, which means more humans, more uneducated humans that don’t see the
devastation headed our way. What needs to happen is that everyone needs to
realize that this is no longer a warning, global climate change is happening,
and we need to take action, to give our future generations a chance.
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