Class Journal on Global Warming

In my opinion, global warming is one of the most devastating environmental problems we as human beings have created. The toughest part of this is solving the dilemma. It seems that many people do not take the threat of global warming seriously and consequently do not do anything to change the way they are treating the Earth. "Some day, the Earth will warm, the oceans will rise and the weather will change. But each one …

…global warming. As quoted in the Social Psychology text, "Global changes may be impossible to control once they get started; by the time a catastrophe is foreseen, it may already be too late to prevent it. Humanity is conducting a grand experiment on its natural environment, and cannot afford to fail. We only have one Earth on which to experiment." 1 http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/flaeffects/intro.asp 2 http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp