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Global Warming

Technology has changed the world in so many positive ways. We can pick up the phone and call anywhere, anytime. We can travel on land, in air, and even into space. We can identify someone using a simple drop of blood using DNA. How can something with such positive effects also have such profound negative ones? If each generation continues to destroy our environment, what happens when we get to the point of not having one? How are future generations suppose to breathe without air and trees? With the ever-growing need for natural resources, will we ever catch up? Technology has moved us into a time where we need to look at the bigger picture, Mother Earth. Without a healthy planet technology might as well be obsolete. Can we ever reverse what has already been done?
Mother Earth as we know it is failing to keep up with the damage we have done. Acid rain is becoming more frequent, our air quality is deteriorating, we are losing forests by the acre each hour, our polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate, and what little we have done to reverse these problems seems to be only a drop in the bucket to what we have done to cause these issues.

The most damaging problem facing us today is global warming. Global warming is a huge environmental and economic challenge that we are facing in the 21st century. Global warming is also commonly referred to as the greenhouse effect. Global warming can affect entire ecosystems and climates, which in turn affect the way in which people live. We, in our lifetimes, will not be around to see the major outcome of global warming; however, it is still a major concern. It has come to be known that the major increase in temperature over the last century is a result of the Industrial Revolution. During the Industrial Revolution, when new machines were being used, there were major increases in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, which is one of the main reasons that scientists believe the temperature increase in the effect of...