Nature is all around us, it’s beautiful and complex, and believe it or not, it’s dying. Environmentalists and scientists have been warning us for decades and yet, due to playing down by the media, the state of our environment has only continued to deteriorate. Ever since industrialization, our carbon footprint has grown exponentially, resulting in what we now know as global warming. If carbon emissions continue to rise and the pollution and destruction of the earth continues, life as we know it will eventually cease to exist. This is why we must stop idly watching and actively participating in the destruction of our environment; if there’s no life-sustaining environment there can be no life. It is time to take action and preserve our …show more content…
Gore describes five steps that he believes will save the environment. The first step suggested is to become totally committed to solving the environmental crisis and advocate for your planet. Committing to the environment and advocating for it is a good way to spread word and recruit people for the cause. Second, Gore urges readers to make environmentally friendly consumer choices, such as recycling and car-pooling. Making environmentally friendly consumer choices helps reduce the use of energy and natural resources, as well as the size of our carbon footprint. This is important because every little step is still a step closer to our goal of saving the planet. Third, it’s recommended to join or form an environmental group. Joining or forming an environmental group is a good idea in that it builds an environmentally friendly community. This is extremely important because a group effort will have a much larger impact on the environment than any individual will alone. Fourth, Gore says that this group must get the media’s attention, this is also very important. For decades the media has turned a blind eye to global warming and the deadly effects big industries are having on the environment. Getting the attention of the media provides global platforms from which the truth about the state of the environment can be disclosed and a larger community can come together to help save it. Lastly, Gore tells his audience not to give up on the political system. Gore
His tone in this part of the speech conveys his standpoint on the climate emergency and shows he deeply believes that we must do something to change our current way of thinking in order for us to believe that we are in an emergency state. Gore explains that our relationship with the Earth has had a drastic turn since the creation of technology and that through technology our way of thinking has changed. As the technology grows our life span increases. While this may seem to be good thing, it has also had a negative affect. With the increase in population, new technology has evolved to the point where we are making a greater carbon footprint, than we have in the past. The newer the technology the greater the demand and the greater the demand the higher the co2 levels rise. We are so busy creating things we have forgotten that some of these creations have negative consequences on our environment.
The sad injustice to nature is that man has forgotten the biotic connection between the natural world and humanity. Whether protecting nature is a spiritual experience or simply a means for survival, nature is as much a part of human life as the human themselves. The separation created by modern environmentalism between human and non-human entities can only be reunited if people learn to view life as a part of nature. The scary part about that thought, however, is will that be enough now? Only time can
While I started my volunteer educational program, another man was well ensconced in his own. Al Gore took up a cause that many people seemed to be ignoring, our environment. The issues of climate change and general environmentalism are very important to me. I see similarities between the challenges of managing a clean environment for our globe and the challenges of managing good health to me. Through concerted efforts to make routine changes we have the capacity to live more ecologically friendly, and often healthier lives. I have seen that with just a few adjustments, I can control my diabetes to the point where most people do not even know I have it. Likewise, I believe that if we commit to making fundamental changes in the way we go about our lives, we can easily remedy several environmental issues we face today. By going to Berkeley Law School and focusing on Environmental Law, I can apply my own life’s lessons
A technique that Gore used to get his message across to the readers was that the tone of the story was both motivational and disgusted. Throughout the story Gore tone was disgusted in that he was baffled on how we could have let global warming start in the first place. Another thing that Gore did was that he used real life examples of the catastrophic events that happened in our world such as hurricane Katrina that was a category 5 hurricane that killed a lot of people. Another thing Gore did was that he did not just talk about catastrophic events that happened in the United States he talked about events that were happening across the world such as record rainfall that happened in India that killed more than one thousand people. Gore did this to not only captivate America but help captivate the world because as a whole we can help stop Global Warming.
While industrialization has been strongly associated with greenhouse gas emissions, it is premature, however, to conclude that economic growth is the independent factor responsible to climate change. Neumayer (1998) contended that there is no sound scientific evidence documenting consequences of economic development on the environmental degradation in the long term (p. 4). There is also no linear association between economic growth and environmental deterioration, as maintained by Ferguson et al. (1996, p. 28) that the existing evidence “cannot be used to justify a view that economic growth (…) will automatically be good or bad for the environment” (cited in Neumayer 1998, p. 16).
Reading this quote gives the feeling of being very inspired and feeling empowered. That being said, I feel Gore should have given more concrete action that he proposes we take. He should have said things such as we should stop allowing every person to drive a motor vehicle as much as they please. If he’d said something along those lines, it puts a specific concern in mind and helps along the putting the reality of better, healthier world into fruition. He also could have proposed that perhaps every person who owns a vehicle be required to plant a tree once a year.
The environment is the domiciliary created as a gift by mother nature, to give us a place to work, grow, play, and live. However these days, our beloved environment is being polluted, rigorously. We humans and other living creatures depend upon the environment and our natural surroundings. It gives us all the essentials for survival, such as oxygen/fresh air, food, shelter, and water. It is always there for us, whether we need a peaceful, serene escape from our fast-paced cities, or when we’re feeling a little adventurous, and just need a chance to explore. The environment has made beauty accessible to us, right out our front door. Mountains, caves, beautiful landscapes, and idiosyncratic animal species, are all “Yours to Discover.” Yet,
A man on a mission, to inform his uneducated countrymen of the danger of the path we are currently on. Al Gore, formerly the vice president of the United States travels across the country preaching the same story over and over. Encouraging people to do something about climate change by showing them the effects of global warming like glaciers disappearing all around the world. He puts everything in his presentations like humor, emotional appeal, and cold hard facts. Unfortunately, he can’t afford to get anyone to actually do anything about it, having money in our banking accounts is more important than investing in our planets future.
“On earth, the history of life is always the history of the interaction between biology and environment. To a large extent, the natural forms and habits of the plants and animals on the earth are shaped. “Said Rachel Carson, in her book silent spring, “In the environment of all invasion, air, soil, rivers and oceans are the most shocking pollution, and some of them even fatal pollution. Such pollution is largely irreversible. “The planet, which provides us food, water and shelters is being destroyed by human beings. If immediate action is not taken, we don’t know what the earth will be. We are not the last people to exist or the only creatures on the earth. If our government doesn 't realize that matter, there is no time for us to find a comfortable place to live, after two or three decades there will not even place for our future generations.
Al Gore has been one of the most powerful men in the world at a big crucial time for our nation. Have you ever stopped and thought to yourself that once upon a time he was the most important man of the earths future and of the awareness of the global climate change movement. Not because he has done the most, but because politically, he put it on the map, and because he is making it a bigger part of our daily life. I get that while he was in the position to do something bigger and more than anyone has ever done for the global climate change movement he didn’t show up or didn’t do as much as expected of him. We have to take a look at ourselves from within and be true to our emotions and ourselves that he has done more than anyone. Al Gore has given us the lemons and it’s our responsibility to use them and make lemonade before its to late to do anything with those lemons. At the end of the day, we would have to do it ourselves before anyone can do for us. I mean the man has a Nobel peace prize for warning of us what will become of us if we don’t change how we live. I just feel that we owe him more respect for what he has done. Sometimes we just have to forget about something’s because at the end of the day we have all let people down and at the moment we are letting ourselves down which is more embarrassing than anything else, and make the most of what we do have. I know we all know what global change is but I’m
As a 17-year old teenager going to high school, contrary to the environmental activist, David Suzuki’s, remarks about the ignorance of humans about nature, I receive much information about these kinds of problems at my school, from dedicated assemblies, eco fairs and special days that address our responsibility to deal with nature in a more responsible fashion. Yet, when the school day is over, all of the information seeps out of the roof of the school; plastic water bottles are still found in the corners of hallways and leftover Tim Hortons cups are still present in the desks of my former Business class. Even when I step inside the door of my house, the disconnection from nature is apparent. Most of my time at home is spent looking at a screen and doing homework and the only sign of nature would be the fly
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (Thoreau, 66). In two decades of life, I have struggled to find anything superior to a forest path for the endeavor of self-reflection and growth. I have been awestruck at the vastness of the Blue Ridge mountains and entranced by the moon’s gentle glow permeating a midnight canopy. Although I treasure these sublime experiences, they do not motivate me to advocate for a sustainable society. Climate change is a byproduct of humanity’s unprecedented impact on the planet and it threatens the sublime natural spaces that many environmentalists hold dear. With the impending threats of sea level rise, super storms, food shortages, and extinction, environmentalists must find a new course of action. If the worst manifestations of climate change are to be prevented, the movement must more effectively engage the public and facilitate a reduction of carbon emissions and material waste. At the root of this issue lies environmentalism’s failure to embrace a single conception of nature. As the movement lacks a consensus on “nature,” it has no uniformity of rhetoric or singular goal. Some environmentalists wish to preserve sublime wilderness, others fight to prevent ecological collapse, while still others wish simply to save nature. Whatever their motives for participation, environmentalists must unify behind one conception
350 is a worldwide natural organization. It was established by creator Bill McKibben with the objective of building a worldwide grassroots development to bring issues to light about human-driven environmental change, to go up against environmental change dissent, and to cut discharges of carbon dioxide keeping in mind the end goal to moderate the rate of a worldwide temperature alteration. 350.org takes its name from the exploration of Goddard Institute for Space Studies researcher James E. Hansen, who set in a 2007 paper that 350 sections for every million (ppm) of CO2 in the environment is a protected furthest utmost to dodge an atmosphere tipping point.
The issue of global warming should be on the list of our top priorities. Studies show that the average of global temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution began. Since the Industrial Revolution, human emissions has quadrupled the frequency of certain heat extremes and many scientists have warned that a failure to bring greenhouse gases under control could eventually lead to a 62-fold increase in extreme heat blasts (Gillis Justin A17). Most of the increase is due to human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. These activities contribute to a build-up in carbon dioxide and other gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere is made of gases like nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen. These gases act as a blanket that covers and gives us warmth, but once these gases such as carbon dioxide absorbs heat, but does not release it back into space in which causes the increase in global temperature. This is called the greenhouse effect because it only traps heat but does not release it.
As the world population continues to grow and society changes so does pollution and the reality of creating harmful, unsustainable conditions to the ecosystem. Due to human activity large amounts of pollutants and contaminants are produced each year which make their way into our environment. For millions of years nature has had its’ own solution to keeping the environment clean using a natural bioremediation. Nature has used microbes, and fungi to breakdown and decompose dead plants and animals, and has used microbes and algae to clean the water. However, we pollute our air, water, and soil far faster than nature itself can clean up, and we have also introduced new disasters such as oil spills and nuclear contamination. Taking a cue from