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Persuasive Essay On Global Warming

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It is hot and dry. Everything is hot and dry. You haven’t had clean water in weeks or proper food in months. The sky is perpetually grey. You can’t remember a time when it was blue, or even just when the clouds were white. The air is suffocatingly toxic as if the very earth was dying. You’re a mile from the beach, but it’s far from pretty. It’s full of plastic and too toxic and acidic to swim in; only bottom feeders can survive. Agriculture has fallen due to the UV radiation being too strong for plants to survive. Humans have fallen back to being a hunter-gatherer species, as meat is too expensive to produce domestically with the lack of plants. You’ll die within a year. This is the planet in one hundred years. Everyone talks about global warming and the planet dying, but have you really taken action to help slow the death of the planet? Though it seems complex, the answer is simple. Ecosystems are dying, but you can help slow the death of the earth by going vegetarian, semi-vegetarian, or vegan and letting your peers know about the effect the meat industry has on the world and how we can stop it.
If you do not already believe that global warming is real, the evidence is in front of you. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), the oceans are rising about one-eighth of an inch every year. Oceans rose at twice the rate of the past century in just the last two decades, and acidity has increased by 30% since the 18th century. All of this is

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