Should we protect the environment?
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Yes, most of our animals will die and the trees that carry oxygen will carry poison you know the poison that kills us the one that will stop us from loving and hugging our moms every single day of our lives and our mothers life. If you disagree i would like an introduction paragraph and 3 support paragraphs supporting why you disagree and then an exit ticket. On the top of that who wants to die, who wants to work for 15 cents a day just to support their family and have to kill others just to eat them. No one would even have the guts to even pull the trigger on a dog to eat them. Side: Yes
Of course we should. Some people don't believe in climate change. I completely disagree with those people, but if they respect the environment and want to minimise human harm then I can respect them. The Earth is the one place humans can live and right now, if we mess it up, we're dooming ourselves. As relatively intelligent inhabitants of this planet, we have a responsibility to each other, our communities, our ecosystems, and other animals who have an equal right to live here. It may not always be economic to protect the environment. But the Earth is an investment and we need to take care of it for ourselves and future generations. If we protect the environment we reap the following benefits and more: - Clean air, meaning fewer respiratory health problems - Greater social responsibility; people will respect their local environment more and doing things like not littering will probably have some influence on things like not vandalising property. - Wildlife not going extinct; we can continue to enjoy nature's diversity and if we protect plants from dying out we may be able to use them for medicine. - Sea levels not rising or rising at a slower rate, meaning we have time to build flood defences, move our civilisations further inland, or avoid flooding altogether. - Less poisonous waste in our soil, so a cleaner water supply. - Less acidic rain. - If we switch to renewables, we won't have to deal with the huge global impact when we run out of extractable supplies of fossil fuels. Even nuclear will help, though it can also be dangerous for the environment. - Better pollination if we reduce our usage of pesticides. Why wouldn't you want to create a better world? Side: Yes
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Thank you for sharing. I agree with you. I only wish more people viewed the environment is the same way as you. Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. Greed is killing our planet. Greed is killing our home. Greed is destroying mankind. Side: Yes
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Yes, we should protect this environment because this is our home and we should keep it clean. If we do not protect the environment then little kids would be treated ways , no little kid should be treated. It is our home so if one side of the city is dirty then the whole city is dirty because we all are one . i guess ... Side: Yes
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Yes, we should protect the environment because the world is our house and when the world is sick, human health is impossible, so in order to be health we have to health our world, and our world is dying every single day and all is for us. YES FOR US, and we don't do nothing for save it, so what the future will have for us? If we don't do nothing the future will be catastrophic and everyone is going to DIE. DIE. DIE. DIE. Side: Yes
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yes we should take more better care of the environment because we live in it and live off of it because if we dont take care of it, the problem that you though that never really matters will start to effect everybody else in the world and will have catastrophic results that will devastate humanity Side: Yes
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Yes. The environment on the Earth will never and should never be full of green. In some degrees, it's a symbol of lagging behind. The modern, advanced society is doomed to have a smell of equipments in the air. It's true that destroying the environment is equal to killing ourselves, but what we should do is to develop more advanced equipments to purify the breathe-in air instead of creating more green. Side: No
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Educate the masses about global warming. Educate yourself. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. It just takes one to take a stand. Side: Yes
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So you are telling me to not waste money because it wont make a difference, and how can we make a difference if you are always taking a cab for go to school and ruining the environment obviously we wont progress if your always wasting the money in unnecessary things you are just a selfish and manipulative person that wants money. Side: Yes
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No, we should not protect the environment because protecting the environment will cost lots of money that we don't have. America is in debt 19.8 trillion dollars and if we put our main focus on the environment instead of focusing on the money our economy will collapse and millions of people in the U.S. will be affected. Side: No
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would you rather have no job, no money because the economy is failing and take care of the environment or not take care of the environment and have money to support your self, put food in your stomach, and clothes on your back. you can not have a healthy environment without money Side: Yes
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yes you do need money if you want to save the economy. clean energy isn't free. also if we were to stop using cars that burn fuel or get rid of power plants or stop doing those missions that cut down trees we would put thousands of people of out of there jobs and one of the leading problems in America is there not being enough jobs in America for people Side: Yes
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I disagree its not right that we have to only make money in this world. Plus the only reason people get money is because they cut down trees in order to make money. Many Know that the trees that are living are giving us oxygen and also the oceans. Money will never be more important then human lives or even animal lives. Many living creatures in earth are just to important to be extinct. Side: Yes
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Should we protect the environment? Why are all people being accused automatically of not protecting or improper interactions that are responsible with environment and what effect will this basic principle have on any protection created? As for climate change this is an unconstitutional declaration as it does not match the public claims it is openly saying or providing as common defense. Climate manipulation is what the public describes as a basic principle of the accusations being made publicly. What has been now excluded is all accusation of all natural possibilities to an issue,as witnesses can now suggest any issues that start with only human possibilities. What is being asked or said publicly is what can manipulate environment and what can change temperatures? Asking a witness what they, see not telling the witness what they should see, or must see. An impartial search has not been narrowed, or a path of cause fabricated in behalf of obstructed in any way. Should you protect the environment is a separation based on basic principle and legal precedent. Should we protect the environment is a much complex principle with legal precedent. Do we know for a fact those who make the claim do not contribute to the issue in question? Side: No
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The consumption of fossil fuels in last few decades has contributed much to the degradation of our environment. Global warming, climate change, extinction of wildlife species, depletion of ozone layer, and increase in air pollution are few of the problems from which our environment is suffering. It may be quite a task for anyone to find some solid global warming facts to alarm for some action. Here are plenty of them, right on your platter. What is Global Warming? Global warming is the increase of earth’s average surface temperature and its oceans due to greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels. These greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane absorb heat that would otherwise bounced off the Earth’s surface. Global warming has emerged has one of the most biggest environmental issue in the last two decades. As per NASA, “the global average surface temperature rose 0.6 to 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.1 to 1.6° F) between 1906 and 2005, and the rate of temperature increase has nearly doubled in the last 50 years. Temperatures are certain to go up further.” It seems that the temperature is rising at a rate faster than ever before. Human activities like burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, industrialization and increase in pollution are considered as few of the factors responsible for rise in global warming. HowStuffWorks defines global warming as, “Global warming is a significant increase in the Earth’s climatic temperature over a relatively short period of time as a result of the activities of humans. In specific terms, an increase of 1 or more degrees Celsius in a period of one hundred to two hundred years would be considered global warming. Over the course of a single century, an increase of even 0.4 degrees Celsius would be significant.” More from global warming: Global warming effects Causes of global warming 35 easy ways to stop global warming Steps to reduce global warming 30 Myths vs. Facts on Global Warming Is global warming real? How global warming works? Globalwarmingfacts WAR CONTRIBUTES GREATLY TO GLOBAL WARMING, WHICH SHOULDN’T SURPRISE US. ALL THOSE BOMBS GOING OFF, ALL THOSE ROCKETS, ALL THOSE PLANES AND HELICOPTERS. ALL THAT FUEL OF VARIOUS KINDS BEING USED. IT POLLUTES THE AIR AND WATER OF THIS VERY FRAGILE AND INTERCONNECTED PLANET. ~ ALICE WALKER Below are 35 Surprising Facts on Global Warming Fact 1: Global warming is the result of increase in the earth’s average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. These gases are required for the presence of human life on earth. However, global warming is happening due to over-emittance of these gases. Fact 2: Emissions like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and other greenhouses gases will remain in the atmosphere for many years making impossible to eliminate global warming for several decades. Fact 3: According to IPCC 2007 report, sea levels will rise by 7-23 inches by the end of this century due to global warming. Fact 4: Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees. Fact 5: The last two decades of the 20th century have been hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies. Fact 6: The Arctic is one of the worst places to be effected by global warming. Fact 7: According to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004, the average temperature in Alaska, Western Canada and Russia have risen at twice the global average. Fact 8: The Arctic ice is melting rapidly. By 2040 the region is expected to have a completely ice free summer, or even earlier. Fact 9: The Montana Glacier National Park has only 25 glaciers instead of 150 that were there in the year 1910. Fact 10: Due to global warming and pollution, coral reefs are suffering the worst bleaching with the highest dying record since 1980. Fact 11: Global warming that is causing extreme weather changes has shown it implications in the way of forest fires, heat waves and severe tropical storms throughout the world. Fact 12: There has been a tremendous increase of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane nitrous oxide and especially greenhouse gases due to polluting substances emitted as a result of industrialization, pollution, deforestation. Fact 13: Humans are emitting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, faster than the absorbing rates of plants and the oceans. Fact 14: Sea levels have risen about 7 inches in the in the last 100 years, which is more than the previous 2000 years combined. The rising sea levels due to global warming could threaten the lives of people living along the coastal areas.
Fact 15: Around 100 million people live with 3 feet of sea level and many cities of the world are located near such vulnerable coastal areas. Fact 16: Melting of glaciers will cause sea levels to rise on one hand and water shortages in areas that depend on natural sources of water. Fact 17: More than 1 million species have become extinct due to disappearing habitats, ecosystems acidic oceans all caused due to global warming. Fact 18: The global warming will completely alter the ocean’s conveyer belt which will cause a mini ice age in the Europe. Fact 19: Increasing temperatures will release more greenhouse gases, unlock methane, and cause more evaporation of water. Fact 20: 200o-2009 has been the hottest decade periods of the earth. Fact 21: The rate at which carbon dioxide is being dumped in to the environment is 1000 tons per second until the 2011 records. Fact 22: The carbon dioxide levels in the 20th century have been highest in 650,000 years. Till 1950, the levels rose by 11% and recently the levels have risen by 40%. Fact 23: Due to industrial revolution, the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas started on a massive scale. This not only increased greenhouse gases but was also responsible for large scale deaths due to asthma and other respiratory diseases. Fact 24: Human activities release around 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Fact 25: Since the industrial revolution in 1700, the level of carbon dioxide on earth has increased by 34%. Fact 26: By year 2100, the average temperature will rise by 5.8 degrees as a result of global warming. Fact 27: Each year of the 21st century ranks amongst 14 hottest years since 1880. Fact 28: In the last 30 years, the average consumption of fossil fuel by United States has been 80%. Fossil fuels are the most dangerous contributors to global warming. Fact 29: Between 2000-2100, the heat related deaths will rise by 150,000. Fact 30: Global warming is causing the colder areas of the world to become more hot, thereby becoming more vulnerable to diseases. Fact 31: A failure in preventing global warming can cause a major economic collapse causing 20% of global domestic output to fix. Fact 32: Droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, extinction on endangered species, melting of polar ice caps, storms are few of the effects of global warming. Fact 33: The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) proposed the Clean Air Act to cut power plant emissions by 26 percent in the next 7 years. Fact 34: The heat trapping gases have been increasing in the atmosphere at an alarming rate. The presence of large number of these gases has resulted in enhanced greenhouse effect. Heat waves caused by global warming is responsible for many heat related illness and deaths. Side: Yes
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ALSO................. What should I know about climate change? Great question! Here are 11 facts about Global Warming that will help you understand why the Paris Agreement is crucial. Global warming is the increase of Earth's average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases that collect in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Greenhouse gases keep heat close to the earth’s surface making it livable for humans and animals. However, global warming is happening largely due to an over-emittance of these gases and fossil fuels (natural oil, gasoline, coal). With the start of industry in the 1700's, humans began emitting more fossil fuels from coal, oil, and gas to run our cars, trucks, and factories. By driving a “smarter” car, you will not only save on gas, but help prevent global warming. There is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today than at any point in the last 800,000 years. Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- by far the largest share of any country. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has both the authority and responsibility to reduce pollution from electric power plants under the Clean Air Act, the nation's bedrock air pollution law adopted in 1970. Since 1870, global sea levels have risen by about 8 inches. Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Heat waves caused by global warming present greater risk of heat-related illness and death, most frequently among people who have diabetes who are elderly or are very young. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the temperature in the U.S. has increased by 2 degrees in the last 50 years and precipitation has increased by 5%. Global warming puts coral reefs in danger as the ocean warms, scientist fear that coral reefs will not be able to adapt quickly enough to the resulting changing conditions, and bleaching incidents and diseases will increase What is the Paris Agreement? In 2015, almost every country in the world -- 195 countries in total -- agreed to the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to combat climate change by setting goals to reduce their country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Obama Administration, the US pledged to cut its carbon pollution by 26-28% by 2025. What’s the impact of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement? Pulling out of the Paris Agreement jeopardizes the health and safety of every single American. Leaving the treaty means greater health risks such as increases in asthma attacks, heart attacks, and lung cancer; a reduction in global economic competitiveness; and a threat to our national security. Our friends at Indivisible break it all down here. Who has already signed on to the We Are Still In statement? In addition to tons of mayors, college/university presidents, businesses and investors, governors from California, Connecticut, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington have signed onto the pledge. For a full list, visit We Are Still In. Are there any other countries other than the United States that are not part of the Paris Agreement? Syria and Nicaragua are the only other two countries that did not sign the Paris Agreement. Syria chose to not enter the agreement because the country is in the middle of a devastating civil war, and Nicaragua refused to join because its leaders wanted the deal to be even more ambitious and aggressive in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While Americans make up just over 4% of the world’s population, we are responsible for almost 1/3 of the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We should be doing our part to fight climate change, as we are a major culprit. I heard that the US can’t formally leave the agreement until 2020. Is that true? As Indivisible states, “The provisions of the agreement mean that the decision announced on June 1st won’t become official until November 2020. Although Trump’s announcement won’t take immediate legal effect, in practice the US will immediately become an international pariah. We will lose credibility internationally, we will face an immediate diplomatic backlash, and we will lose jobs in the process.” What causes climate change? Earth is wrapped in a layer of greenhouse gases. This layer acts like a blanket, keeping the earth warm and shielding it from the cold of universe. When fossil fuels -- coal, oil and natural gas -- are burned, they release CO2 into the atmosphere. This causes the layer of greenhouse gases to get thicker, which makes the Earth warmer. Learn more here. Side: Yes
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1) Global warming is the result of increase in the earth’s average surface temperature due to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. These gases are required for the presence of human life on earth. However, global warming is happening due to over-remittance of these gases. 2) Emissions like carbon dioxide, nitrogenous oxide and other greenhouses gases will remain in the atmosphere for many years making impossible to eliminate global warming for several decades. Side: Yes
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The environment is not out of control it was never in our control the argument is that as a society we should have the foresight to understand cataclysmic events and how they can be prepared for. Asking people to fix nature is unacceptable asking society to prepare for events which pose serious threat to human life prudent to insure liberty. Side: Yes
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The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC states: it is a greater than a 90 percent certainty that emissions of heat-trapping gases from human activities have caused “most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century. We all know that warming and cooling has happened in the past, and long before humans were around. Many factors (called “climate drivers”) can influence Earth’s climate such as changes in the sun’s intensity and volcanic eruptions, as well as heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Side: Yes
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2/3 of the earth surfaces is water. Water transfers a far greater amount of heat than air. The report is mathematically questionable considering the amount of water that is displaced with much colder temperatures yearly in the same timeframe. The rates of the temperature displaced into the oceans can also account for readings of trapped gasses released from water. Add to this the efforts put into manipulating the protein skimming that happens by sandbars on shore lines. Energy being chemically displaced creates additional heat. The additional Co2 simply traps that heat. Side: Yes
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Climate Change is NOT a political issue. It is a moral reality. "We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe." We are already in the sixth extinction, will man go extinct too? I think Neil deGrasse Tyson said it best, "I'm often asked whether I belive in global warming. I now just reply with the question, Do you belive in gravity?" So my quesiton to you is, Do you belive in gravity? Side: Yes
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I know You see Somehow the world will change for me And be so wonderful; Live life Breathe air I know somehow we're gonna get there And feel so wonderful; I will make you change your mind - These things happen all the time And it's all real - I'm telling you just how I feel; so [Chorus] Wake up the members of my nation It's your time to be There's no chance unless you take one every time; Just see the brighter side of every situation Some things are meant to be So give your best and leave the rest to me [Verse 2] I know It's time To raise the hand that draws the line And be so wonderful; Golden sunshine I know somehow it's gonna be mine And feel so wonderful; Show me what you can become There's a dream in everyone And it's all real - I'm telling you just how I feel; so [Chorus] [Bridge] So make it right (Maybe you're right) And see it through (You've got to...) Know you won't be free until you - [Outro] Wake up the members of my nation It's your time to be There's no chance unless you take one every time Just see the brighter side of every situation Some things are meant to be, so Give your best and leave the rest to me Leave it all to me Leave it all to me Just leave it all to me... Side: Yes
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No I do not believe in gravity. I can describe gravity and do not rely on a shared opinion. The issue in you comparison is I among few people have a theory identifying the source of gravity. Thus know why we have the effects and the basic principles to how it is shared in the Universe. I do not believe in gravity. I know and understand Gravity. Side: Yes
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Basic principle. We use salt to melt ice in the winter. Ice and snow that had been frozen for months now moves into the ocean in days. The temperature of this water is 7 to 12 degrees colder and is moved months faster than it ever has been. All of this to make the smaller energy saving cars capable of traveling in colder weather. Co2 gas does not move nearly this amount of heat variation. Side: Yes
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There is noting wrong with caring about clean air and clean water. The point I will always make, is that I will never trust a person who pretends to have such passion for our environment, but lacks the simple humanity not to care for the least among us. The Left's priorities are totally screwed up. Yes, the environment is important, but compared to purposely supporting the killing of even our late term viable babies here today, it is not even in the same ballpark. No one denies we should address any proven man made causes of any permenant damage to this planet, but to trust these environmental activists who lack the simple humanity to support every innocent person's right to life, makes them not worth listening to. You show me a true Prolife environmentalist, and he will be someone I might actually trust. Side: No
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The debate is Constitutional Law cannot be legally used to enforce protection. Law can be legally legislated to create impartial separation by degrees publicly. Your confusion is being made with religious law which is proclamation on something as an effort to fabricate legal. This is trying to using law to create an immunity to itself. This type of legislation is incriminating to corruption by building on hypocrisy with in law. Should you develop Constitutional laws which provide impartial tests to separation based on nature and environment? Yes. Should we protect the environment? No. You can if you want, but please do not be surprised if you end up in court or jail. And, please do not include me. As this type of inclusion ends up in most cases of a group of people stating to another they didn't understand what was being said. Law is meant to be tested by United States Constitution as an impartial common defense to the general welfare. Side: No
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