President Obama is one of the best presidents of the country’s history. He has improved the economy significantly by creating jobs, improved foreign relations, better funded healthcare and education across the nation; these are just a few of the hundreds of achievements Obama has accomplished as president of the United States. Amongst his greatest achievements is his “The Clean Power Plan” where Obama set out to “reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030”. Obama’s plan set out not to only slow down the harmful effects of climate change, but also to improve our economy through investing in renewable energy sources such as solar, hydro, and wind power.
Carbon emissions is the number one factor that contributes to global climate change. So it is reasonable to assume that Obama’s primary concern would be to reduce carbon emissions in any way possible. Obama is doing this by creating standards and regulations for Power Plants to reduce how much they produce carbon emissions, an important step in the write direction. As previously stated, the hope is to reduce carbon emissions by 32% by 2030. The second largest contributor to carbon emissions are motor vehicles. What Obama has done, is the same as for power plants, he is regulating the Carbon emissions in this industry as well. How he is doing this is by setting a standard for passenger vehicles to have a fuel efficiency of 54.5 mpg by the year 2025.
Another primary focus of Obama is by expanding the clean power economy, and hopes to raise clean power generation by 30%. He has secured billions of dollars in funds to go towards renewable energy sources, including solar and wind. Especially solar, in the past couple years the number of houses and buildings that use solar power has greatly increased. This is not from reading an article either. Simply from walking walking around my own neighborhood. Many houses have begun implementing solar panels to their roofs, and new houses especially. As an example new housing complexes along Hyde Park avenue have implemented solar panels.
Obama is a president that truly cares about the state of our planet. He was the first president to visit the arctic circle in order to truly observe, first hand, the effects of what we had done to our planet. He realizes that climate change is no longer something to be concerned about in the future, it is happening now. “‘we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair: submerged countries, abandoned cities, fields no longer growing’” (Obama). Obama is not yet satisfied with what we have done. The numbers are impressive feats, compared to what any president has done before, but Obama will not stop until he has completed everything he can in the year he has left as our president.
I agree that President Obama has taken the biggest step to reverse the effect of global warming. People go day by day wasting unnecessary energy in their homes thinking they aren’t part of this issue. Everybody is involved in this issue and we can only help the situation by doing our part in saving energy. Nice blog!
I also agree that President Obama has taken the big step to balance off the effect of global warming. Every human being waste energy day to day and from home to work to pubic. Each and one of us are involved. Leaving like lights on in the morning is unnecessary because you got the daylight, use them to light up the house instead you talking about like a basement. There are great way to resolve global warming and President Obama started it off with clean energy sources.
Great blog Bobby 😀
I also agree that President Obama has taken some necessary steps to help global warming. He has passed some acts that will continue to help global warming even when is term is over. But i still think he could of done more to spread how serious this matter is and how everyone can do their part to help the world. But for now Obama has helped significantly. Also i loved the pictures that you posted with your blog. they really helped tie up the blog.
I definitely agree that although Obama has made significant changes to reverse our effect on this planet, he is not finished with his efforts and there are many more changes still to come. Everyone has the power to make a difference and if we all tried to make a change it could happen. You made very good points and this is a great post!
I agree that Obama has made a lot of important changes, but there is a lot more that he could be doing to help the planet. I liked the blog post and think there is a lot more that all of could be doing to clean up the environment.