Global Warming and the Two-Part Solution. In The Environmental Issue from Hell, Bill McKibben argues for a new approach to global warming.

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Rick Serra

Professor Hammerman

Cal 103 Section L

8 November 2011

Global Warming and the Two-Part Solution

In "The Environmental Issue from Hell," Bill McKibben argues for a new approach to global warming. McKibben's main concern is the impact of humans on the environment and the ways in which consumerism affects the global ecosystem. McKibben presents a two-part solution on how to handle these environmental issues, utilizing both the people and the government. I completely agree with all of his points and solutions to go about global warming.

McKibben's point of how consumerism is one of the main causes for global warming is spot on. With all this new technology, global warming has only increased, despite the many efforts to make everything more energy efficient. McKibben points out that, "most of us live lives so divorced from the natural world that we hardly notice the changes anyway." (McKibben) Let's say that if it gets hotter out, we would just turn our AC up and not think anything of it. These new technologies are not letting us feel the consequences of global warming causing us to be completely ignorant of it. That