http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/planet.in.peril/
In this special report done by CNN there is a virtual globe that addresses environmental issues on each continent. I thought this was a very interesting medium of education until I started clicking on each of the dots. In South America it talks about degredation to the rain forest, in Africa it talks about lake chad dissapearing, in Greenland it talks about ice caps melting, in China it talks about population growth increasing pollution ect. What caught my attention was what it said for the United States. My expectation would be, uses the most energy, water, produces the most waste, contributes mass amount of Co2, something along those lines but no, it says,
"The reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone has become a rare success story in the battle to save endangered species in the United States. In the early 20th century, the gray wolf was often hunted by settlers in the western United States who said the predators were killing off their livestock. By the 1970s there were no reports of a wolf population, according to the park's Web site."
I could not believe it, this is all that it said about the US contributing to a Planet in Peril. Why do you think Americans are so unwilling to take ownership of the negative contributions we have had on the environment? Some people do not even believe that global warming exists? How can we make people aware of how they impact our world?
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Alright, what ultra-conservative created this flashy website? Seriously! There is an overwhelming amount of evidence on global warming and ongoing scientific research that has revealed that human-induced climate change will contribute to dangerous new weather patterns and rising sea levels... but the United States of course is not a part of this! Give me a break!!
Instead, we're talking about endangered species in the United States.
As we all know that the global warming is not a small cause of calamities of flood and drought.
Over-compsumption of goods including gas brings co2 emission one way or another. Recycling alone cannot solve the problem. "Inconvenient Truth". We have to live much more modestly. And when it comes to over-consumption, I thinks, America, being the land of plenty, cannot but help to be liable to this global warming.
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