Community it Affects and Describe

¶ … community it affects and describe the problem in detail what the problem is, whom it affects, why it is an important issue, and so on.. You might begin this with an informal response to surface what you think about it, which can lead to an initial argument position. In my experience, big problems are easier to work with than more local ones, so you might start out with something like global warming, America's obesity epidemic, or child poverty and decide what we should do about it. You get to be the decider in this paper. Some problems will not have viable solutions (like pandemics, global natural disasters like global warming, drug abuse or fundamentalist terrorism), yet you can still argue for how such a problem might be solved or addressed or argue that people can do something to alleviate it in their own lives or you might conclude that it can really be solved. Whatever position you take, be sure to give a little space to alternate views.

Taxing global warming

Introduction:

Global warming is one of the most debated topics today, considering the aftermath that is left as a result of the fact that earth's temperature has experienced a significant increase in the recent decades. Society as a whole is affected by the process, with people from all over the world reporting in a series of anomalies occurring because of the sudden change in temperature. Contemporary attempts in reducing greenhouse gasses emissions or pollution as a whole have had little to no effect in stopping or at least in ameliorating global warming.

Governments from around the world have kept a traditional perspective in regard to the subject they "followed the "standard model" when creating international environmental treaties: set commitments first, defer procedures for enforcement until later, and rely on "soft" (or nonexistent) measures for enforcing compliance" (Victor 147).

In spite of the fact that some countries have expressed little interest in ameliorating global warming, most of them are expected to change their position in the coming years, with or without their desire to do so. Global warming affects everyone, meaning that the countries that are currently indifferent in regard to it will gradually come to understand the imminent threat and will practically be forced to get actively engaged in fighting against the process (Victor vii). The earth's climate is presently experiencing change mainly as a result of the fact that society has blindly polluted the atmosphere and cut down exaggerated amounts of trees that were essential to reducing greenhouse gasses.

II. Thesis

Immediate action needs to be taken in order to remedy conditions. The masses are willing to pay in exchange of being comfortable, even if this comfort has terrible effects on the environment. More and more people buy and use pollutant devices that they do not actually need, but that they consider essential in building a state of comfort. In order to prevent and profit from this situation, governments need to increase taxes on every luxurious device that generates more pollution in comparison to similar devices that are more simplistic and less pollutant. This tax would also concentrate of taxing large corporations as a result of the fact that they are among the most pollutant communities in the world.

The basic idea is that every individual who pollutes needs to take responsibility for his or her own actions. Also, a large amount of the money raised through taxing pollution would be invested in creating green technologies which would replace pollutant technologies in time. People need to understand that they are not being deprived of particular technologies through the fact that this tax is imposed, as they are actually heading toward a stage where technology is no longer pollutant, regardless of the level of comfort that it generates. Green cars can actually be much better than cars that run on fossil fuels, given that contemporary progress in the technological sector has made it possible for fossil fuels to appear like an obsolete source of energy. The fight against global warming can also be seen as an opportunity to strengthen relationship between countries and to create an united front dedicated to saving the planet from becoming a polluted wasteland.

III. Antithesis

Even with the fact that such a scheme would be receive heavy criticism, people need to understand that it does not actually propose a tax on wealth, as it is actually meant to encourage the use of greener technology and concomitantly influence people in using lesser and lesser devices that are extremely pollutant. Considering that politicians and the media tend to act in accordance with what some of the large corporations want from them, it is going to be particularly difficult to impose such a tax. This tax would virtually stand against some of the most important factor in the contemporary society -- profit. Corporations in particular are likely to experience a significant loss of profits as a result of the fact that some of their most expensive products recognized for the fact that they pollute in excess will sale in lesser amounts. Even with that corporations will also be encouraged to design environment-friendly products, given that luxurious products can also be green.