As in Carl Sagan’s article, Tomorrow’s Energy, “We live by burning humble creature who inhabited the Earth hundred million years ago.” We are killing the planet just by going to school or work. With the amount of CO2 burning in the atmosphere, the glaciers are melting. All over the world, sea-levels are rising. Cities like San Francisco, Miami, Venice, Bangkok, New Orleans, ect. will be under sea level. (Sagan) With our dependence on CO2, our personal, political and environmental cost will be unsustainable.
You see a lot of young boys wanting big trucks and SUVs, but the amount you spend a year on gas, worth having huge vehicles. A 2009 Ford Explorer cost $2,677.50 a year just on gas alone. With having 14 miles of gallon in the city, puts…show more content… (166-167) He was on Bush’s administration, in charge of reporting the findings on climate change. But the New York Times reported he changed data on scientific findings about climate change to make them seem “less alarming.” Then, when the public found out, he quit congress and took a job at Exxonmobil, one of the world’s biggest oil company.In the article, Who’s Bankrolling the Climate Change Deniers?, by Bryan Walsh, “ There was still a wide gap between Democrats and Republicans about the issues on climate change.” Congress does not do anything about climate change because every big republican congressmen, gets their campaign paid off by the big oil companies. While politicians get money by ignoring science, the EPA did a study. A report from the E.P.A. stated, “By the end of the century, the United States will face up to 180 trillion dollars in debt due to water shortages and droughts.” The United States is already in 18.6 trillion dollars in debt because we love going to war. Imagine what the country will be like with 198.6 trillion dollars in…show more content… We don’t care about anything unless it’s trending on twitter or facebook. Everyone wants the newest and fastest car, but doesn’t care about home much CO2 is being polluted into the atmosphere. We will keep doing harmful things blindlessly about the being of other living things around us until it’s too late. Take the passenger pigeons for example. As stated in the article, The Birds, by Jonathan Rosen, “The passenger pigeon was also the numerous species in North America, possibly the world.” (63) We killed off an entire species in just 50 years, simply because they tasted good. We are going to ruin the atmosphere and kill millions of species because we simply do not care. “Right now, we’re going to just burn everything up; we're going to heat the atmosphere to the temperature it was at the time of the cretaceous, when there were crocodiles at the poles and then everything collapsed.” (Kolbert.