Global Warming: Here a Little and There a Little

Disregard for mounting facts associated with global warming and its effects have soared over the decades as a major and controversial issue of our day. Increased technology and machinery that emits carbon dioxide such as cars, airplanes, and farming equipment greatly contribute to the growing damage. This carbon dioxide more specifically has increased by about 6 billion metric tons worldwide since 1990; this is a major problem as it is recognized as the gas primarily responsible for global warming. Growing concerns about the affects of global warming hold a great amount of validity. These may include the transmission of diseases (as disease-carrying insects migrate to warming Northern countries), destructive storms and the economic impact thereof, health concerns due to smog, animal extinction resulting from habitat destruction, droughts, and wildfires to name a few. Even so, many disregard global warming as an issue in our day. They argue that although the world has certainly contributed to the warming, that the earth experiences a natural and inevitable heating curve and because of this, there is no reason to worry. There is also significant evidence to support this point of view. With the two polar opposities presenting themselves, how can the gap be bridged between the two in order to come to an aggreement on the matter? Perhaps the answer is not to strive to acquire an aggrement about the claims but rather about the common sense improvements that can be made in order to increase the safety of people everywhere. One example of this is pollution. Though many have their varying opinions about pollution in relation to global warming, we can all agree to strive to make decisions that will improve pollution for the health safety of people, if anything else. By dodging the core claims and implications, and instead focusing on aggreeable improvements that can be made for obvious reasons, we are able to actually take action, rather than reaching a stalemate of progress because aggrement cannot be made.