http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/17/us/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-climate-change-cnntv/index.html
As we've seen on the news lately, there are many tropical storms that are hitting the Atlantic and affecting the U.S especially. And we've known for a long time now that scientists have proved that our emissions cause climate change. Neil deGrasse Tyson says that it may be too late for us to fix this problem. Tyson goes further into detail how every action we do has a consequence and that we may have reached the point of no return. This relates back history because all of greatest cities are on the waters edge. When the english arrived, they settled in Jamestown which is toward the border. New York, a melting pot from the beginning with the Dutch, is toward the line of water. Tyson says, "I worry that we might not be able to recover from this because all our greatest cities are on the oceans and water's edges, historically for commerce and transportation."
If these hurricanes continue to stay on their path towards the U.S, what will happen when they hit these cities? We already saw in Houston, one of the most populated cities in the U.S. How will our economy react when these storms grow further north? These are all questions to ask our current government, but a lot of politicians are quite close minded when it comes to our climate.
I feel that even thought it might be to late there might be something we can do. If t can prevent for altleast one city to be hit form a natural disaster we need to do it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nancy that we should still try to do anything we can in order to slow climate change or save one city, but I also agree that many politicians are closed-minded and that will not happen until everybody is educated on the subject. Hopefully politicians will find a middle ground soon
ReplyDeleteThe truth of the matter is that it will take seismic change by all world governments to affect any real change, and that needs to happen. The idea that "the best and smartest idea is to sit back and do nothing" in never, EVER the right answer. We have to make this a priority, and our generation has to take direct and outspoken action, even beyond the bounds of conventional protest. Sorry if i'm getting a little revolutionary, but that's just me
ReplyDeleteI hope the upcoming generation has the motivation to do something to fix these problems. Action needs to be taken, and fast. I bet if people started making art about this topic, like for example, a fictional movie about what would happen when climate change goes too far, people would be inspired to make changes.
ReplyDeleteWhat we should take is that the storms are not there yet (thankfully), but immediate action needs to be taken in order to prevent such. As Katelyn stated, a lot of history is in our coastal cities, but so is an immense number of the world's population. If only inspiration was taken from scientific results by our leaders to take action. I sometimes ponder what the future generations would think of us and how ignorant people were.
ReplyDelete-David Bagley