Why is it that 56% of Republicans claim that climate change is a hoax, despite the fact that 97% of scientists have agreed that global warming is real and is being affected by humans?
Science has been treated as myth by frontrunners of the Republican Party for
years, but our current administration is continuing us down this dangerous path
of lies with horrifying haste. Our new president is dismantling all of the environmental protections put into place during Obama’s presidency with ease, due to support of the
Republican Congress. Obama struggled to pass the smallest act due to gridlock
in a split party government. Since Trump does not have this same problem, our
country is moving away from
clean energy at 4x the speed that we were moving towards it last year.
I am not
going to be redundant and repeat the hundreds of articles that describe how
humans are affecting climate change, because
it is clear that climate change deniers have seen the facts, and chosen to
ignore them. But in addition to denying that humans are causing climate change, many people also choose believe
that the temperatures on earth are not changing at all, that global warming
simply doesn’t exist. Often, these people are ignorantly using the results of
global warming to prove that it is not real.
As the greenhouse gases affect our earth, the warm currents that sweep north in
the Atlantic Ocean, east of the United States, the warmth reaches the ice caps,
and melts them, a fact that should be well known to everyone. However, the cold
water of the melting ice caps is brought south by the continuing currents and
will in fact result in colder temperatures in Europe over the next few decades. Due to this, the more appropriate term for this phenomenon
will always be “climate change”, but either way, people have falsely tried to
claim that because Europe is getting colder, global warming is nonexistent.
In fact,
these contrasting changes in temperatures better depicts the true danger that
our planet faces. In America, we continue to use polluting, non-renewable
resources as our energy sources despite the fact that clean renewable energy is
well within our grasp. With Trump as president, it has become even more obvious
why we can’t move away from our disgusting energy choices. With all of the big
money coming from the hugely successful oil companies, it only makes sense that
they would use their money to keep themselves in first place as the main energy
supplier. Every day that oil and coal are our main supply of energy, is another
day that we are putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and
increasing the rate climate change. But aside from that, there is another
important reason why now is the best
time for us to take action. Building wind and solar energy facilities will
obviously use lots of energy itself, and will be an expensive endeavor. So for
it to be financially viable, it makes sense to start the process now, when oil
is only 50 dollars a barrel compared to in the future when our natural
resources could cost us three times that amount.
Every day
we waste is further destroying our planet, and why are we wasting time? To
support the big companies that want our money. This path of action serves no
one except for those already at the top, and it’s time for us to make a change
for the better, for ourselves, and for our Earth.
