Sandra Steingraber Despair Not Analysis

Is America facing an environmental crisis? A lot of people in America think that global warming is an actual thing and that animal are being more and more extinct. While others don’t think that anything is wrong and that we just need to keep doing what we're doing. People can be blind to the fact that animal species are dying everyday, and with those days more and more animal species are becoming extinct. Are toxic chemicals harming our young ones? Studies are being done to see is toxic chemical exposures are linked to a plethora of early childhood diseases. The more these chemicals and abundant ultraviolet rays get bounced around the more disastrous all of our futures’ are going to be. These issues are becoming a more widespread problem affecting the whole world and not just the United States. In Sandra Steingraber’s essay, “Despair Not,” she focuses on the risk of the environment and dangers for future generations. According to Steingraber, The environmental crisis is actually two crises, although they share a common cause. You could view it as a tree with two main branches. One branch represents what is happening to our planet though heat trapping gases. The second represents what is happening to us …show more content…
Whether it be for greenhouse gasses affecting the world or how many people are affected each year by weather disasters. One studies and figures that are brought up in Steingraber’s essay are chronic illness that are diagnosed to children everyday from toxic chemical exposure. Some examples of this statistical information provided are included in the following: one in eleven children in the U.S. have asthma, one in eight children in the U.S. are born prematurely, one in ten children in the U.S. develop some type of learning disability and finally, one in 110 children have autism or effects of it. That is a lot of little children that didn’t even ask for have a learning disability or