Climate Change

As a suburban Texas native, I grew up with strong conservative beliefs. Most of these beliefs I still retain, but my views have changed on particular issues. I'm an eighth Choctaw (Native American) and am a strong believer in taking care of our environment so that future generations get to enjoy the same beautiful nature that we do. On February 21, 2010 the San Diego Union Tribune posted an article titled "Pro: Climate change is real; there is no debate." It starts off by stating facts about climate change and stating that there is no debate about them. It states that "Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that acts to warm the planet." This basically states that the emission from cars, carbon dioxide, is put into the air and sits within a layer of the atmosphere and creates more heat within that layer and everything below it. The article goes on to state other facts about climate change and what causes it. It gives possible solutions to helping the fight against climate change such as leaning more on renewable resources and the use of solar panels. The ending paragraph acknowledges that American's in the past are know for their innovations and their success. That American's have the right tools to find more solutions to reducing our country's footprint.

I disagree with the policies that our current president has with environmental spending as he does not believe in global warming. A lot of people in power do not care enough about the funding for environmental policy and it's disheartening as a person of such a beautiful country and world as a whole.

On March 31st,  Cloudy with a Chance of Politics blogged "Climate Change and the Environmental Budget" talks about the budget for the Clean Air Act that Trump cut funding for over the Paris Agreement. He stated that this took US out of the world leadership for climate change for the future programs. He then goes on to state that President Trump argued that Climate Change is a scam and that China was worse of then America, yet by 2020 China will be spending around 360 billion dollars in renewable energy. He ends his commentary by talking about the dying world that is the coal industry and that if we do not act now, our children's children may never get to enjoy the beauties of today.

I whole heartedly agree with these statements. I do have my doubts about climate change in general, but that's because I'm a "seeing is believing" kind of person. As for the words our President remarked, I can see that China is last just by recalling the Olympics and how awful the athletes had it there and the media coverage alone spoke to many. I believe that we should are further ahead of China in emissions, but could be spending money to help out the further generations by doing all that we can to preserve the world's beauties.