Thursday, April 23, 2009

OPED against Kyle's global warming editorial

Can they be serious Global Warming a major issue! They are out of their minds if that is the top priority in their lives. Out of all the problems in this world global warming is not the biggest. I will use Kyle Marsh’s editorial to prove my argument.
In the first paragraph he says, just like many others, that global warming is a major issue. If it is so major and fatal why has it so rhythmically happened in the past? Even the global warming scientists say that it has happened in the past and an ice age has followed it. If it is a natural pattern of our earth then we have nothing to worry about other then adapt and overcome the changes.
Another issue with his first paragraph is the sentence; “…we have these redneck hicks in our world still polluting it…” Last I knew it was the large industries dumping waste, people driving cars, and dumps burning or insufficiently storing waste. How is it that redneck hicks are the only ones polluting our earth? Everybody is and in my personal opinion it is the rich pricks that do it the most.
The second paragraph starts of with targeting diesel engines as a major problem from the “hicks” but there is a problem with that claim. The military uses strictly diesel engines, truckers drive semi-trucks with diesel engines, and the tractors that farmers and ranchers use to produce food have diesel engines. Diesel is not the biggest cause of global warming; gas is also a cause and who hasn’t driven a car that doesn’t run off of gas? In the second paragraph it says that we should think about our future and to me that is the agriculture, technology, and military perspectives not focusing on a bunch of trees; those categories are what will keep us fed, comfortable, and safe.
My next argument against this editorial is in the third paragraph were he says that we have inhumanly increased the levels of CO2. It was humanly increased because with the massive increase in our numbers came more CO2 and things that caused it. The earth was designed to balance itself out and even though we have pushed the levels higher it can still do the same thing that it has for millions of years.
I hope I have possibly made the point that global warming is not as big of an issue as people think it is.

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