The Pros And Cons Of Technology Increase Climate Change

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If one was to take a look though history, patterns would start to form. They would be able to see the failing of our past and how we seem to always repeat them over time. Currently the United States is repeating, arguable one of its greatest short comings, its failure to react when the world is looking at it for help. The most famous time the country did this was in the late 1930’s into the 40’s, Europe was being thrown into a war that would redefine what cruelty was. It would not be until the conflict got a little to close to home on December 7th 1941, Pearl Harbor, that America would enter the war. Today, it seems like there is not a country the United States would not stick its nose in. But when it comes to the health of the planet, it gives a blind eye. Much like the World War II era, the United States has been slow to get on the climate change scene as it was with the war and only the past few years has there been some major growth on the matter at hand, growth which continue. For much of American and world history, humans for the most part could care less about the environment. It seems that we as a species have cared even less in the last one hundred or so years with the rise of industry. We have been children in a candy store holding mommy’s credit card, we had no knowledge of its limit and that we were getting ever so close to it. All we cared about was how much oil can we get. How many SUV’s can we buy. How many televisions, laptops, and smartphones. All made in factories that pump carbon and other toxins into the atmosphere, heating it up to the point of no return. Of course though while this is all going on, we have our parents telling us not to go over board with the sweets but we do not care we just keep on going. We keep on pumping and drilling and buying as scientist start putting out information that all this mass use of fossil fuels maybe, and then is, bad for us. Just as in the 1930’s when American allies were being invaded and bombed the country did nothing. Americans sat and watched feeling safe on their side of the Atlantic, until they were not. Pearl Harbor is the turning point for the United States, the walk up call that let the country know that it was not safe from the threat at hand. But before the United states was officially in the war, it was taking the steps to insure ally victory. Supplies and other items for war were sent into European allies to help with the war, while the same time using this to stock pile American own forces. Similar to our currently world crisis, the United States has not fully committed to dealing with climate change. While some small programs are going on some more successful than others. It is not …show more content…
Leave the world with the question is it going to work, will these new technologies fix climate change? While we cannot be sure if it is too late or not to fix what humans have done to the planet, applying this technologies that are currently in develop could at least give us more time if not start to reverse the situation. If the world leaders can once again met and form a well planned agenda on what needs to be done and the steps to insure it happen. Much like was done in June of 1944 when the Ally forces stormed the beaches of Europe on D-Day. The stress of this plan need to be the call for a mass increase in funding for green energies and push for the public to follow suit in the use of them, instead of their fossil fuels. This plan needs to lay out what programs will be funded and applied, as well as phasing out fossil fuels and the sooner the better, like D-Day a plan may not win the war but could turn the tide. Much like World War II this is not something that can be done by a few or a single group, everyone has a job and they need to do to insure a better future for all of

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