The definition of climate change is the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns primarily caused by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas). This is been an issue since the 1800s but has worsened extremely in the past 20 years.
Bob Inglis, a conservative from South Carolina, said he thought he was perfect and everyone else in the political process was idiots. He was a 100%, complete, and wholehearted climate change denier who thought it was a hoax.
Inglis's children told him that he needed to clean up his act and become educated on the problems that the environment is going through, so with some persuasion, he finally decided to look into this new and foreign topic which was climate change.
Inglis got on a science committee and eventually went to Antarctica and The Great Barrier Reef with them and saw just how bad things really are. They saw the ice core drillings, malnourished polar bears, and the bleaching of the coral reef. With this said, he was now very aware of the facts and even the evidence to back it up.
He brought up a good point when saying that as Christians we are taught to worship God and the things he has created, doesn't that mean the earth too? Why would we not want to stop the destruction that is happening to God's creation?
After Inglis came to a realization about all of these things he decided to try and make a change. Inglis introduced the Raise Wages Cut Carbon Act of 2009 to legislation which would impose new taxes on fossil fuels, and as a republican in South Carolina it was very controversial. A politician that takes up for or speaks on something that's not what their party agrees with is frowned upon, even when there is evidence your wrong, so in the next election he lost. After loosing, he made a foundation to educate people on climate change, what it is, how to prevent it, and what we can do to try and reverse the damage that has been done.
The point of this is, regardless of political views acknowloedging the science behind climate change promates awerness and reduces ignorance on the topic. We need to always try and keep an open mind even thought It's hard these days to not be influenced by what the media says. We need to stop thinking about politics, sides, who's right or wrong, and think about what what's going to help our future. We only have one planet, one home.
Great work here! I love a story about someone who realizes their own mistakes. What sucks here is that, because he stood up for what he now understood to be right, he LOST a lot of the power that he had to make changes. Unfortunately, I think that is part of the reason that more who deny hard truths do so--for fear of losing their power. It's a catch-22 though, because if you have power and you are not using it for RIGHT and GOOD, then what's the point of being in congress.
I think this blog might have been improved by OPENING with some stuff about the denial of climate change, rather than just a definition. This would fram…
I like how you brought in some of your own beliefs with religion. Very Good.