Timed Suicide or Evil Hoax? Introduction

Climate change is a controversial topic in today’s day and age. Some are skeptical as to whether it is actually happening and some know for a fact that climate change is real and is really a threat. Even if one doesn’t believe that the globe is warming up, one should at least be concerned about the carbon footprint that we are leaving behind us and how all our waste and pollution is hurting the environment (Wallace-Wells, 2017). But the issue has been so politicized that if someone on the Left says he believes in climate change and wants to help prevent it, someone on the Right will fight against him because of the political divide and the unwillingness of people to get along. That is unfortunate for this simple reason: Climate change is a very serious issue in our world today. It is a rapidly worsening issue and there aren’t enough people trying to prevent this issue from getting worse and becoming irreversible. In this paper, I want to point out some key facts about the issue and how we can help our environment improve rather than let it rot away. 

The Goal

Our planet is currently dying at a rate that is much faster than we can fix anything. The lifespan of the earth is becoming smaller and smaller due to human pollution. There are still ways to fix things. There are ways we can invest and make it possible to clean not only our lands but also the oceans. We can improve air quality and make it more affordable to “go green”.  By focusing on recycling (Albeck-Ripka, 2018; Wile, 2016), shifting to clean energy aka green energy (Akherst, 2016), using hemp plastic to reduce our reliance on petroleum (O’Connell, 2017), giving up luxuries like fast food and consuming organic all-natural foods produced by local farmers (McMahon, 2017), and just reducing our carbon footprint and becoming a sustainable community (Schenker, 2018; Shaftel, 2018), the problem of climate change can be addressed. In the following section, supporting evidence will be given to show how climate change can be stopped.

How to Achieve It

There are many people already building machines that clean the ocean or lands that are inexpensive to make and use. Tesla is one such example: it is an electric vehicle (EV) auto manufacturing company that has as its aim the goal of sustainability. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk wants to help save the environment by producing cars that don’t pollute the earth. Tesla represents a company that is interested in getting people to shift away from fossil-fuel burning machines and embrace clean energy machines like one of his Tesla EVs. Akherst (2016) points out that we have to move to clean energy and go green—because our planet is green and if we want to keep it that way we have to go green with it.

A product like hemp plastic, which is all-organic and made from industrial hemp—a plant—so that when it is disposed of it will go back into the earth without a problem, is a type of product that more people need to be using to help combat the landfill problem (O’Connell, 2017). The landfill problem, after all, is part of the climate change problem, as Shaftel (2018) points out. Everything that we do on earth has an effect—either a negative or a positive effect. When we pollute the earth with plastics that do not go back into the earth, we cause a problem in terms of having too much waste. Likewise, the toil that goes into creating plastics—like getting petroleum out of the ground—just adds more pollution to the atmosphere. So getting rid of plastic and replacing it with hemp plastic would kill two birds with one stone: it would solve the landfill problem and it would cut down on harmful air pollution that comes from refining petroleum.
Likewise, there is a man in California making fuel from algae that is eco friendly. It’s safe to use on vehicles and aircrafts. As Akherst (2016) notes, fossil fuels and their effect on the climate are the real enemy, and that is why eco friendly products like fuel-from—algae are so helpful: they combat the enemy. The fuel made from algae can be made to work for cars, aircrafts boats and small engines as well. It is bio fuel which means it is not harmful to the environment. Not only does the company (Global Algae Innovations) produce fuel but also oil and even feed. This company can take a large portion of climate change and put it to a stop. 

There are also cities that have no Co2 in their air because they run on clean energy and don’t use vehicles unless they are electric or eco friendly. It is possible to make a better world for our future generations, we are just too lazy to follow through.  Really, it all starts right at home—and if we can’t bother to take care of our communities, buy locally and make sure our local farmers are supported so that we don’t have to ship in foods from halfway around the world just to feed ourselves when there are opportunities to feed ourselves locally. Going local helps to reduce the carbon footprint, too, as McMahon (2017) shows. In fact, McMahon (2017) shows that there are quite a few ways that we can fight climate change just in our everyday lives: one of the big problems is that our leaders don’t care enough about it to actually support changes that would make it even easier.

McMahon (2017) shows how the government continuously turns away from the climate…