Tuesday, May 28, 2013

1000 word draft of paper

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.







Bibliography

1)      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/04/22/how-americans-see-global-warming-in-8-charts/
Clement, Scott. "How Americans See Global Warming — in 8 Charts." Web log post.Washingtonpost. N.p., 22 Apr. 2013. Web. 27 May 2013.

2)      http://earthreform.org/deforestation-a-major-threat-to-the-destruction-of-our-planet/
Badwal, Karun. "Deforestation: A Major Threat to the Destruction of Our Planet." Earth Reform RSS. Earth Reform, 21 Apr. 2012. Web. 28 May 2013
3)      http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/deforestation-overview/

"Deforestation." National Geographic. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 04 June 2013.

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