Opposing Argument Essay: Whirlwind Of Environmental Issues

My first issue to be addressed is climate change. You can argue this from two sides, one side believing humans are causing/the main reason for this happening, and are the ones in charge of solving the issue at hand. The opposing argument being that “climate change” is a reoccurring event and has happen in the past and will continue to happen in the future. It’s the cause of heated argument and strong personal discussion. I’m choosing to address that climate change is real and is right in front of us, I strongly believe humans are the cause of it. We have potentially waited too long to address the issue and we should be up in arms about the subject and how the generation I currently am apart of were thrown into a whirlwind of environmental issues …show more content…
As much as solar seems to be and is a great way of harnessing an inexhaustible resource, there are two sides to each view. One side being that solar is a clean energy with out potential destruction to the natural environment and habitats. And the other that, even though it is clean and realistically free, it leaves an imprint. We are and will be destroying habitat for many of creatures and in hindsight polluting the very place we seem to be ‘cleaning up’. Is the environmental cost really worth the production cost? Digging up hard to recycle heavy metals to produce solar panels and using fossil fuel to do so. My interest stems back to ill-education of the pushers for solar energy who are only into the, so called, booming market for quick money and the gloating of working for environmentally friendly companies before doing their own homework on the issue. I personally side with the production for solar energy, due to the fact that it is a clean and renewable source, but I’m here to learn more and hopefully educate myself to the point where we as a people can create better ways of obtaining material and/or what we use to control solar …show more content…
This is something that is happening now and will be, even if many people choose to ignore it, a great turbulence in our lifetime. I can not do this on my own and I don 't have to the time to sit back and wait for the moment I can say, hey, I told you so. We need to educate people on these topics, we need to invest and research as much as we can and pick the least destructive paths. We have the option of picking our means of fixing the earth, so why do we remain silent and choose whatever sounds the best? Wake up and lets address these issues head