President Obama has introduced a new national plan to confront the growing threat of the changing climate. Decades have pasted with carefully reviewed science, tells us our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on the world we leave our children with. Already we know that the 12 warmest years on record history have all come in the last 15 years and the last year was the warmest in American history. While we know no single weather event is caused solely by climate change, we also know that in a world that’s getting warmer then it used to be, it, more extreme droughts, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes affect all weather events. Those who already feel the affects of a changing climate do not have time to deny it, they are busy dealing with it, the firefighters who brave longer wildfires seasons, the farmers who see crops wilted one year and washed with the next, western families worried about water that’s drying up; the costs of these events can be measures in lost lives, livelihoods, homes, businesses, and hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency services and disaster relief. American across the country are already paying the price of an action in higher food costs, insurance premiums, and the tab for rebuilding; so the question is not whether we need to act, the question is whether we will have the courage to act before it is to late.
The National Climate Action Plan that the president unveiled will cut carbon pollution, protect America from the impacts of climate change and lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate. Therefore, to reduce carbon pollution the president have directed Environmental Protection Agency to work with stats and businesses to set new standards that put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants. The president indicates that America will use more clean energy and waste less energy throughout its economy and to prepare from the impact of climate change that we cannot stop, but we can work with communities to build smarter more resilient infrastructure to protect our homes and businesses and withstand more powerful storms. America will lead global efforts to combat the threat of a changing climate by encouraging developing nations to transition to a cleaner sources of energy and by engaging our international partners in this pipe, while we comate businesses we also share plane too and we must all shoulder the responsibly for the future of America. Together this is the fight America can and will lead in the 21st century, but it will require all of America’s citizens to do their part. America will need scientists to design new fuels and farmers to grow them, engineers to devise new technologies and businesses to make and sell, will need workers to man assembly lines that come with high-tech, zero carbon components and builders to have earned a place the foundation for a new, clean energy age. Will need to give a special care for people and communities unsettled by this transition and those of us in positions of responsibility will need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors and more concerned with the judgment of our children. If you agree with me I need us to act, educate our classmates and colleagues, our family and friends, speak up in our communities, remind everyone who represents you at every level of government that there is no contradiction between a sound environment and a strong economy and that sheltering future generation against the ravages of climate change is a prerequisite for us vote. We will be judged as a people, as a society, and as a country on where we go from here. The plan the president put forward to reduce carbon pollution and protect our country from the effects of climate change is the path we need to take and if we remember what is at stake the world we leave to our children I am convinced that this is a challenge that we will meet.
Sources:
– http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change
– http://www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org
– http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/president-obama-climate-change