Global Warming in U.S.

Ian Grant
9/24/2014

Global Warming in the U.S.

     Climate change has become a critical issue in the U.S. With the increase in technological evolutions and overall emissions from vehicles and other power sources we have continued to experience fluctuating temperatures, recession of water resources, increase of harmful emissions in the air, etc. Los Angeles for one, is a main factor and contributor to the state that this country is in. Measures must be taken soon if we want to clean this world and live long healthy lives.

     Cars have been one of the main contributors to rising gas emissions which poison this world. Carbon gas cause the temperature the shift, cold areas melt while warm area may freeze over and vice versa. Regarding the United States, we suffer from increased heat temperatures and water supply depletion. Some states such as Los Angeles and New York have one of the largest populations of car owners in this country.

     The citizens of L.A. risk their health and well-being every time they wake up and turn their cars on to leave for work. The city is like a beehive with a swarm of works rushing off to work packing up every freeway and pumping endless emissions into the growing gas cloud hovering over the city. Rivers in the area have high risks of drying out, crippling farmers and residents dependent on the water supply. Lakes become sand pools and trees become more scarce as the city continues to expand and substitute vegetation for concrete.

     "Saying that California was at the “epicenter” of the impact of climate change, Mr. Brown said that states and nations in general were “not on a sustainable path” when it came to global warming and the harsh weather patterns and other problems it brings." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/us/politics/in-california-climate-issues-moved-to-fore-by-governor.html?_r=0

     We have to work together to fix our environment and we must seek more efficient and conservative sources of energy. Innovations such as converting cars from gas power to electric or adopting emission and consumption regulations for citizens which eight Western U.S. states have already begun enacting within state laws. It's our job to save this country and we can only achieve that through collective dedication to cleaning up our pollutants.