Global Warming and the Two-Part Solution. In The Environmental Issue from Hell, Bill McKibben argues for a new approach to global warming.
Serra
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 is why it is so important to make people realize now because, “By the time the magnitude of the change is truly in our faces, it will be too late to do much about it.”(McKibben) There is such a delay between the actions we take to lower carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the actually results of it lowering, that we need to be making the change to more energy efficient and eco-friendly power right now before it is to late.