| Entela |
| Anna |
| Jacinta |
| Quratulain |
| Byeungsoo |
| Raquel |
| Marie |
| Quratulain 2 |
| Raquel 2 |
| Entela 2 |
| Anna 2 |
| Zuleyha |
| Odriste |
| Byeungsoo 2 |
| Jacinta 2 |
| Oleksiy |
Essay Topic: Write a letter to the person with whom you most disagree in which you present your argument against his/her position on global warming. Be sure to use persuasive evidence to support your position. This persuasive evidence should consist of references to and quotes from texts written by those who support your opinion. Begin your letter with “Dear ______:”
Entela Kokoshi
ESL 91
Spring, 2004
Dear Dr. Fred Singer:
First, I am going to start writing this letter to you by introducing myself. I am a student at Kingsborough Community College and I am taking ESL 91 class .Our assignment was to do research about global warming .We, as a class did so much research about problems that we are facing today on global warming. During my research I read Dr. Wigley’s debate and your debate. Even though you are a professional person in the study of environment, I totally disagree with your statements about to climate change. Dr. Singer, if we do not worry about the environment today, tomorrow is going to be too late. If we all believe in your opinions about global warming imagine how the world is going to look in the next couple of years.
In the interview you say “climate change is a natural phenomenon .Climate keeps changing all the time and is not a threat to peoples’ life, because in the past human beings have adapted to all climate change”. But Dr. Singer can you image how we human beings will have to adapt in the future to climate change. You say “climate changes” but do you know the reason why? It is not a natural fact and that is for sure. According to my research from “NASA” the Swedish chemist, Svante Archenivs states “The prediction of climate change due to human activities, which they have increase the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Much of human effect which tends to increase global warming come from energy, electricity, and fuel consumed.” He says that during industrial revolution the amount of CO2 (dioxide carbon) into the atmosphere were increasing and this amount will continue to increase due to human activities. According to Svante, if CO2 doubled in the atmosphere earth would become several degrees warmer. If this happens the ice on the ice cap is going to melt and the sea levels are going to rise and we all are in a big trouble .We live in a city near the ocean and if this happens all the surface of the city is going to be destroyed and the life here would end for all of us, and the same thing is going to happen to all cities near the ocean. Dr. Singer you should know that all the increase of the greenhouse gases are due to human activities and not a due to a natural phenomenon. People today use a lot of technologies which are harmful for the environment .According to my research from “Sierra Club” cars, sport –utility vehicles and other light trucks emit 20 percent of the nation’s CO2 pollution. It is good for America‘s environment, economy, health, and climate to use energy more efficiently, to develop clean alternative sources of electricity, and to use more efficient methods of transportation. This will make our countries cleaner and healthier.
You also say that if the ocean
warms, and the sea level will rise and counterbalancing this is the fact that
the warmer the ocean, the more ice will accumulate on ice cap. According to
“SIERRA CLUB” the sea level has risen
You also say “High levels of CO2 should not concern us. The economy will rise and the agriculture will become more productive, the price of the food will be much cheaper and the plants will grow faster”. I don’t think these really work. As we know CO2 is a heat-trapping pollution.CO2 acts like a blanket in the atmosphere. As a result, the planet is getting warmer. This heat –trapping pollution is threatening the ozone layer. The ozone layer absorbs most of the dangerous ultra-violet radiation reaching the earth from the sun. The increase of ultraviolet radiation is harmful to human beings because it can cause skin cancer and eye diseases. It is also harmful to crops, plants, and trees from which we get food that supports our life. Dr. Singer, this can cause less food and high prices.
In addition, you say that Aerosols cool environment. Although Aerosols may cool the environment, they are greenhouse gases and part of air pollution which we breathe every second and this can cause many diseases on our life.
Dr. Singer according to “NRDC”, global warming is one of the toughest environmental challenges, threatening the health of people, wildlife and economies around the world. We have to start fixing the problem as soon as possible .Decisions we make today will affect the planet for years to come. If we start working on global warming today we can have our planet without any problems tomorrow.
At the end I want to thank you for taking your time to read my letter .I hope that these facts will change your mind and you can start thinking seriously about the global warming.
Sincerely,
Entela Kokoshi.
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Anna Shapiro Dear Dr. Singer, I am writing this letter to you because my
position on Global Warming is quiet opposite to yours. I read your interview
about climate change and I would like to explain my opinion to you.
In the beginning of your interview
you talked about what climate change is and why is it changing. I do not think
it is so natural, because I believe that people make these changes happen. My
opinion is based on and supported by Dr. Wigley’s
point ofview, because I think his position is more
truthful. According to his words “signal-to-noise problem”, we can see that the
nature is telling us something because we alreadycan
tell how climate is changing from year to year. Atmosphere is a perfect “science”,
where everything stays in balance. We are only small creatures on this planet
and Earth is only one planet in the Solar system. In your interview you say
that climate changes happen very rarely. Even though it is true it could be a
problem for all of us. This means that life could no longer exist, if everything
would go off the balance in the atmosphere. In your words: “People like warmer
climates and this is perfect beach weather” I see some twinkle of
irresponsibility; no offense to you, of course. We have to be responsible for
what we are doing to our planet because this is our home. I don’t think anybody
would do any harm to their own house. People always try to make it safe to live
in. The same thing applies to our planet; it is our big house. If there is a
possibility of decreasing our bad influence on the nature, we have to take it.
I could only imagine what would happen if the climate changed dramatically.
Yes, it would be warmer everywhere, like you said in your interview, but we
don’t need the climate to warm every place on Earth. Our planet is in good
condition, so far, because we have cold and warm places. If Antarctic ice caps, or even Greenland ice sheet melted, half of the planet would
be under water. New York would be totally under
water because sea levels would rise by many meters. There would be no life at
all. The perfect evidence of human’s bad
influence on the climate and weather change is the“ urban
heat island effect” – it can be seen in Dr. Wigley’s
interview. This way we can detect that in a big cities the temperature is
higher than in a countryside. People in the cities use
vehicles, heating and many other kinds of industrial activities that release heat.The concrete of roads, buildings and parking lots
absorbs more heat from the sun’s rays and then gives all this heat off to the
atmosphere. That causes an additional heating in these areas. I understand,
that we cannot come back to a life where we had no technology at all, and everything
was in connection with nature. But we can try not to spoil the atmosphere with chemicals
that we constantly use. It’s a big issue that scientists have talked about for
decades already. It means there is a possibility of a problem appearing. All
chemicals that we use, especially the CFCs, go up in the atmosphere and destroy
the ozone layer. And this, surely, is not natural effect. The ozone layer is a
cover for our planet and we have to keep this cover safe, not damage it. Cancer
rates are already high enough and we don’t need more radiation from the sun.
Also, burning fossil fuels leads to releasing of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. This appears more in the places where we have industrial activity.
So, if we add all that up together, we can see that people are helping to
change the climate on Earth. Another evidence of people’s ability
to make the situation worse is the story of Erin Brockovich,
the woman who fought against the big power plant and won the battle.This company was dumping a very dangerous chemical
(chrome 6) into the ponds in small town in California. They had been doing that
for four decades and this woman helped to uncover the company’s actions. Chrome
6 has been known as a cancer-causing chemical since 1920s and it is especially
dangerous to the lungs. Since many of the residents were reporting respiratory
problems, a link to chrome 6 contamination seemed possible. People were getting sick from the water they
used and many of them died.This is a particular
example of a crime that many of big companies commit. We must think about this problem seriously, not just
in the matter of warm or cold weather. Otherwise we will not be able to save
our home. Climate change is going to affect everybody. People are going to
suffer. When sea level rises people are going to move from the coastal areas to
the center of the country. Life is going
to change on our planet. Good thing we have more than ten or twenty years ahead
of us. We still have time to think about effective methods that can help us to
solve this problem. Sincerely
yours, Anna
Shapiro
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Jacinta Asillo Dear: Dr. S. Fred
Singer: In ESL 91 class with professor Kasper, my group and I have
discussed and read your interview in the article “What’s up the weather”. In the article you said that global warming
is a natural phenomenon; as a result human beings can not affect global warming. Although you are an atmospheric physicist
and you studied and analyzed the environmental issues, I personally disagree
with you. I believe that the scientist
Tom M. L. Wigley is correct about the cause of the global warming problem. He says that global warming is human
influences. He presents in the article
clear pictures of the reality of the greenhouse effect, and how we are facing
carbon dioxide emissions and other chemicals.
We could also see what is now actually happening and what’s
happened in the past. We have seen
climate changes frequently. For example,
comparing the winter of 2002 and Winter 2003, in 2002, I felt that there was no
winter because the temperature was about 70 degrees and sometime more and there
was no snow. This Winter 2003 was very
cold and we had a lot of snow in According to the text.
“The Greenhouse effect” By Dr. Loretta Kasper, the sun rays are emitted to the earth surface. These rays warm the ground. And they are sent back into space. Consequently, carbon dioxide and other gases,
such as methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and ozone in the atmosphere form a blanket above
the earth. This blanket works like a
glass in a greenhouse. It also lets the
heat go through, but does not let all heat go out. This warming effect is the principle behind
the ideas of global warming. Dr. Singer, in your
interview you were asked about the situation in Dr. Singer, in this
world not everything happens naturally;
there are human actions which also cause global warming. So, I ask you
not to be a skeptic in the issues of the dangerous of global warming. If we keep ignoring the greenhouse effect,
the consequences could be a big problem.
The world wide temperature could rise destroying our world and living
things. To begin with polar ice caps are
melting. When ice caps start to melt, it can cause sea level rise and
floods. As a result of this, we could
lose houses, businesses, and farms and there would be starvation. People would die. I think it is time to act to prevent or lower the global
warming. According to the article
“Global Warming” by Albert Gore, it is important to take immediate steps to
take care of our planet Earth. Albert
Gore addressed the nation saying it was our responsibility to do it. He also acknowledged that we must pay
special attention to all problems that we, as human beings, are causing in the
atmosphere. With our thoughtless behavior
we are poisoning the places like parks and the streets where people live. We are drinking from contaminated water and
inhaling dirty air. Dr. Singer, I
totally agree with Albert Gore about his encouragement and proposal to clean
the environment. He invited us to join,
and together we can cross the boundaries of possible solution and reach new
hope, not just for us, but also for the future of our children. Mr. Gore thinks that we must find out the
way of solving the
global warming problem, and to do this we need patience even though
sometimes are unable to listen and respect our relationship with God’s
creation, which is the planet Earth. Dr. Singer, I’m concluding this letter saying to you, join
us to find a solution to reduce the pollution. As you read my letter I hope you
realize and see the situation of our planet.
I also hope you change your thoughts about the climate changes as a
natural phenomenon, and your belief that human beings are not able to affect
global warming. Sincerely Yours, Jacinta
Asillo
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Quratulain Khawaja Dear Dr. Singer: I am an ESL 91 student at Kingborough Community College
and Professor Loretta Kasper is teaching this class. We have discussed with her in class about the
causes of global warming and how the concentration of greenhouse gases warms up
our planet. I am writing to you in
response to your article “What’s up with the weather?” According to your point of view on global
warming you said, “global warming could be danger for our world, we should not
worry about it” I totally disagree with your opinion because you have ignored
the effects of global warming in life.
Global warming is causing problems in our planet so we have to worry
about it. In fact, humans are the ones causing these problems. The earth needs our help to give us a better
life so we need to keep it safe. I want to
encourage you to see the reality of global warming from the points of view of
Rachel Carson and Al Gore. They believe
that humans are going to destroy the earth if we do not do anything about the
problems of global warming. I also agree
with their point of view because they are concerned about the necessary balance
between earth’s natural resources and environmental problems. Carson says that
the environment is a very important thing. We should appreciate nature. We should do something to stop global warming
so it doesn’t stay with our nature later on.
Al Gore in “Earth in Balance” says “global warming is a real problem and
the time is to act now” he states that government needs to take steps
everywhere in the world to reverse the rise of global warming. In the text “The
future of the sea” by Jacques Cousteau he explains that the ocean is very
important to human life. We need to
protect oceans to live a better life.
The waste product such as plastic and oil that is thrown in the ocean is
causing water pollution. The pollution
kills fish and plankton, which led to the food chain collapsing so it is very
important to keep our oceans clean and safe. Jacques is also concerned about
environmental problems and believes if we do not do anything about it now we
will have problems later on. He also
says “if the ocean would rise by 100 feet or more from melting ice caps it can
bring flood to almost world’s major cities.
From this flood people will get diseases on scale which will be
impossible to imagine”. On the other hand you Dr. Singer believe that humans
are not causing the problems of global warming. In
the article “What’s up with the Weather?” you said, “The higher level of carbon
dioxide shouldn’t concern us; they make plants grow faster. They will make agriculture become more
productive and obviously, not only lower costs but also reduce more food.” I
disagree with your point of view because Carbon dioxide is also part of
pollution, which is threatening the ozone layer. The ozone layer absorbs ultraviolet
radiation, and the increased radiation is not just harmful for humans but also
for plants and animals. It also damage crops. The result of this is less food and higher
prices. It is very important that
we take care of global warming now because in this world there are a lot of
chemicals that can harm the atmosphere.
These chemicals can kill humans, animals, plants and other creatures
living on the earth. If we keep on producing the emissions of greenhouse gases,
the earth’s temperature will increase rapidly; due to this humans and other
creatures will not be able to survive. Humans are the ones polluting this planet and
in order to save our home we need to stop doing these things. I hope you will agree with my opinion and do
something about global warming for the safety of upcoming generations.
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Byeungsoo Koo Dear Dr. Fred S. Singer: I have been studying and researching on global warming
during the class at KCC. While I am doing the research on the web, I saw you
interview. I think there is something that I do not agree with your point of
view on global warming. It is about mountain glaciers and climate change. According to your interview, “if the ocean warms, the water
will expand and sea level will rise. Mountain glaciers will tend to melt and
add water to rivers, and rivers will add the water to the ocean and that will
produce a rise. But counterbalancing this is the fact that more water will
evaporate from the ocean because it’s now warmer.” It sounds very true, but if
the global warming progressed very fast, then what do you
think would happen to mountain glaciers, eventually to the earth. These days
melting ice is not caused by nature like when it happened between 1900 and
1940. Human being who uses fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal to live
causes global warming. It is obvious that the more we use these fossil fuels,
the higher the temperature there would be on earth. If we use more fossil
fuels, that will make the earth warmer and makes mountain glaciers melt faster.
I want you to think about the cities we live in. Many of important, big cities
like NY, In the interview you also mentioned “the atmosphere is not a
laboratory that you can put into a building and control. The atmosphere is much
more complicated. The warming will be much less than the current models predict
and that change won’t make any difference to people. We get climate changes by
100 degrees Fahrenheit so what difference does a 1 degree change make over 100
years?” I think it will make little harm to human being or living
things on earth if climate changes only 1 degree over 100 years. However, if
we, human being, made 3 to 5 degrees in climate change only in one decade by
emitting harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide to the
atmospheres, that would make big difference to all living things on earth. According to the EPA since the beginning of
the industrial revolution, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have
increased nearly 30%, methane concentrations have more than doubled and nitrous
oxide concentrations have risen by about 15%. Scientist generally believe that
fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks and human activities such as heating
home and business and power factories are the main reason for increasing carbon
dioxide. The more we use natural gases,
the more emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide would increase,
accelerating the rate of climate change. Scientists also expect that the
average global surface temperature could rise 1.6-6.3degree Fahrenheit by 2100.
Intense rainstorms are likely to become frequent and sea level is likely to
rise two feet. If these things actually happen, we might be resort to escape
the land now where we are and have to find somewhere else to live. I do agree with your thought that we’re not going to go back
to living without energy. However if we do not take any action from now, within
50 years we might not exist in this land any more by pollution, by not getting
any food available and by unknown disease caused by pollution. I would like to thank you for sparing your precious time
reading my letter. Sincerely, Byeungsoo Koo
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Raquel Crespo
ESL 91 Dear Dr. S. Fred Singer:
I am writing this letter to you because I disagree with your opinion on global warming in your interview. I know that you think that global warming could not be a danger to out planet. However, I believe that it is a big problem for the earth because the humans and animals would die. The earth needs our help to be a better environment for our children and for children in the future.
Dr. S. Fred Singer with all due respect the consequences of the ozone depletion are very serious. The ozone layer absorbs most of the dangerous ultraviolet radiation. If the radiation got through, it would cause skin cancer and eye diseases called cataracts. There is an estimate that one percent of depletion of the ozone layer would result in an extra 70,000 cases of skin cancer every year would wide. That are very harmful to human beings, and all life on earth. It damages crops, plants and trees.
You say that if the ocean warms the sea level will rise. And counter balancing this is the fact that the warmer the ocean the more ice will accumulate on the ice cap. If this is true how about the NASA studies which show between 1978 and 2000 1.2 million square kilometers. Apparently permanent ice melted away. That is an area five times the size of Britain that represents a loss of 9 per decade. According to NASA ice physicist Josefino Comiso " At this rate permanent ice will have disappeared before the end the century" This means sea levels will have rise 88cm by the year 2100, causing floods in low-lying areas.
According to "The Greenhouse Effect" by Loretta F. Kasper, the warming of the earth is caused by sun's rays penetrating the atmosphere. Pollution cause the heat to become trapped at the surface, increasing the temperature and causing green house effect. when we use the very harmful materials such as the fuels, electrics to produce our living conditions. we actually didn't know that these things could make carbon dioxide and gases such as methane, oxide, halocarbons, ozone trap some of the heat. So the heat gets stuck in the blanket and doesn't let the warming rays go through affect the earth's climate.
In your interview you also make a statement that if we look carefully at other human activities we will see that people can produce things to cool the environment, For example you speak about the production of the aerosols. While aerosols may cool the environment. We know the aerosols are very bad for the environment and they are also part of air pollution which we breathe. This leads to increased lung and respiratory disease.
There's still hope we can try to save the ozone layer. For example, aerosol sprays can be replaced by pump-action sprays, Which do not cause damage to the environment. Also the CFC's in refrigerators can be recycled.
Thank you Dr. Fred. S. Singer for your attention and time to read this letter about my thoughts about global warming. Hopefully this will change your mind on global warming. I hope we can find more data to find out how we can help save the earth from global warming and save out children in the future. Yours Truly,
Raquel Crespo
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Marie Michelle Catule Dear Dr. S. Fred Singer, Dr. Singer it is a pleasure
for me to take this opportunity to write you this letter about global
warming. I have read the interview that you made on global warming in
the website “What’s Up with the Weather”. The interview was very interesting,
but I don’t agree with some parts of your discussion. According to your
point of view you said that “climate keeps changing all the time”. This
is true but the earth cannot take care of itself because it needs help
to make us have a better life. It is also our job to control the earth. Global warming is breaking
down the world’s temperature and is caused by having to much carbon
dioxide around the earth. Global warming is not good because it affects
humans and other kinds of living things on the earth. The greenhouse
effect will increase the earth’s temperature if global warming destroys
the climate all around the world. According to the website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/singer.html, first, you said, “If the ocean warms,
the water will expand and sea level will rise”. Second, you said, “Mountains
glaciers will tend to melt and therefore, add water to rivers and rivers
will add the water to the ocean, and that also will produce a rise”.
Let’s pretend that all of these things happen to see how people will
suffer on the earth. The whole world could be
destroyed by being covered by water. There would be no more places for
us to live because our homes would be sinking under water. Animals would
not have any places to live and they would not have any food to feed
themselves because the plants will not be able to grow anymore food
and the animals could die. People would not be able to survive because
they would not have enough to eat and they would not be able to drink
water because the water would not be clean. For that reason, if human
beings did not get the nutrition that their body needs to stay healthy
then they would die. According to Al Gore’s
point of view in “Meeting the Challenge of Global Warming”, he explained
how we humans need to find a solution for global warming. He mentions
that the government needs to spend more necessary funds in order to
combat these problems and come up with a result. The best way to stop
global warming is by limiting the air pollution from factories, electricity,
plants, and cars. His concerns were about the environment and the earth’s
protection. Because of global warming our lives could be destroyed. Suzanne Mattei is
an Environmental Lawyer who talks about how global warming affected
scientists in the year 1979. She explained that global warming makes
scientists feel sad and they gather together to find a solution for
that situation. She mentions that global warming was affecting the sea
level by rising it up with the storm. According to Mattei’s point of
view she explained that, in 1991 the weather was changed in New York
because the summer and winter were warm. At that time no one was able
to use water until December because global warming made the water taste
like salt. In 1999 scientists started to study bacteria and viruses.
Global climate can affected by killing fish. Global warming caused carbon
dioxide gases to higher and higher. As a result, we know that
if we don’t take good care of the earth, then the plants, animals, and
people would die because of the chemicals that would destroy the atmosphere
of the earth. In order to save our planet we have to start protecting
it now. Dr. Singer thank you for
your patience reading my letter and I really appreciate it.
Marie Michelle Catule
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Quratulain Khawaja Currently
it’s the year 2050 the world has changed so much because of the greenhouse
effect on the atmosphere. The government
did not do enough in the last 80 years to prevent global warming and all the
disasters with it. We are now suffering
due to the climate change, extremely hot weather and air pollution. It has changed our landscapes and the way we
were used to living. We are trying to
find ways to survive this disaster. The greenhouse
effect has caused a major change in landscaping. Our oxygen level has changed and due to a
lack of oxygen people are having breathing problems. Animals are also suffering because plants are
dying and animals are losing their food resources. Not only animals and plants, but also humans
are also suffering from the lack of food. Humans don’t have any other way of producing
food due to the lack of water and poor climate; therefore this poor nutrition’s
is also causing humans to die. The polar ice caps are melting from the North
and South Pole and due to this people are moving to the center of the country
and leaving the coastal areas. People
are renting more houses in the country and the demand of the coastal areas,
like Since there is
no balance in the atmosphere and the ecosystem has changed, every living thing
ages faster and life expectancy has become lower. People are losing vitamins;
proteins and their bones are getting weaker due to the poor nutrition. We are
having stomach problems because the water that we are drinking is not
clean. Humans are also having depression
because they are worried with what’s happening in our environment. We are using nutrition pills because we have
lost our food resources. Pollution is a
major problem in the greenhouse effect.
The smoke and fumes from automobile pipes are creating problems and we
humans breathing this air are suffering from lungs cancer. Due to the environmental changes and
pollution the ozone layer has been destroyed. The ozone layer is to protect the
earth from dangerous ultraviolet radiations. Since there is a hole in ozone
layer and the atmosphere has become warm we are having higher rates of skin
cancer and many more changes in our skin colors. The result of pollution is making the weather
hot and people are wearing light clothing. Men and women are wearing the same
style clothing. Nowadays people are not
more concerned about clothing, but they are concerned about the climate change.
Due to the pollution we have lost our four seasons. We can now only suffer from
the hot weather. We can’t
reverse this greenhouse effect, but we can slow it down and save the little
protection we have left from the ozone layer.
We need to slow down the greenhouse effect because it has made our
environment disastrous. We need to make
new laws to protect our environment such as recycling, using a limited number
of cars, lowering
emissions of factories and not producing more pollution and papers for junk
mail. We need to slow down and take the time to consider whether it is good or
harmful for the earth and us. All the bad consequences we have are really a
good lesson for us. We really have to think about how we can save our planet
from the greenhouse effect and go back to normal. The worst consequences of the
greenhouse effect have lead to human destruction, food destruction, and also to
the animal destruction. We are facing these problems because in the 1970's the
government did not take any action. Even now it's not too late. The government
has to do something to make it better so we can live our life as we want.
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Raquel Crespo It all started in 2004 when an earthquake hit the earth, Everything was flooded. New York city disappeared; all human life was drowing. I was in my apartment and the closet tipped over and hit me on the head. I fell into a coma for 46 years.
I woke up in a hospital alone looking at everything. I felt alone; no one was here with me. I jumped to my feet and got my clothes on and left the hospital.
The day was dark and hot. From a distance I saw a woman, She was very thin and short. I asked her what year is it and she said it's the winter of 2050. I said winter! But it is not even cold. She said yea its been like this for awhile already. As I was thinking I remembered that in my english class my professor Loretta f. Kasper had a lesson on the greenhouse effect. In the year 2004. She had talked about how the chemicals are choroflurocarbons. The CFC are used in aerosol can, and refrigerators. That it releases into the atmosphere these chlorine containing chemicals to rise up to the ozone layer. She also said when it reaches the ozone layer the ultraviolet radiation from the sun strikes it and releases the chlorine from it. Then the chlorine will destroy the ozone over and over again. She also said that the layers absorbs the dangerous ultraviolet radiation If more of this radiation goes through, It would be an increase of skin cancer. She made it very clearly that it's not only harmful to humans, but also to all life on earth. The ultraviolet radiation damages crops, plants, and trees.
So now i walk through the streets and I pass through the bridge. As I was passing the ocean water I saw that it is full of dead fish floating around. The ocean water is so thick with blood and scum caused by the fish. I remember how I read a story about the future of the sea by Jacques Cousteau. It exactly described the way the ocean is now. Wow I'm really here with all these problems in this year 2050, This can't be! All human life is going to disappear.
I keep walking, I have no idea where Iam going, but then i see a pathmark. Where in the year 2004 there was a lot of food to chose from now there is mostly nothing to eat. All food supplies are gone, What are going eat? People can't buy every thing they want to eat. How are they going to feed their family? how are we going to survive? Did the ozone layer really destroy the world? These are the questions I am thinking of, if only we had listened to the environment people and taken care our planet, There's no use of it now. We had the chance and never took it.
As I keep walking a can hit me and got me in coma again. Then i woke up and said yes!! it was a dream. Wow thank God it was a dream. Now i realize how we need to take care of our earth because this is our home. If we don't take care of it, It could end up like my dream.
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Entela Kokoshi It
is morning. The sun just woke up and is ready to work, to give us a
warmer day .I am still in my bed. My eyes are half closed. I jumped
of the bed and I went to the window. Everything outside the window looks
different. The weather is really hot, the nature looks very dry, and
the city looks dirty. Day after day our life is being changed. It is
the year 2050 .This is not what everybody had planned for the future,
what the world had hopes for and our children their dreams on. This
is a real chaos in which we can’t get out. It is an unremarkable situation
and we as people can’t do anything to get by it or even change what
now seems a dead end without hope. If you ask people on the street why
this world is getting worse every day, they are going to shake their
heads and say “We do not know why”
I opened the window but I wasn’t so happy to stay there and smell the
dirty dust of this city. But I really wanted to stay there and suffer
like our nature suffers. It suffers from the decisions that we didn’t
make years ago. From my window I see most parts of my city .Looking
ahead I see the park that misses the people. Years ago that park was
full of children, women, and men talking and playing .They enjoyed their
life. Now everything looks dead. The grass has disappeared from the
park and most of the trees are cut off because they were dried from
the heat. The heat was caused by the increase of the greenhouse gasses
(CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFCs).These gases trap the heat coming
from the sun and they keep the atmosphere warm .If these gases go out
of balance they destroy the ozone layer .As a result the temperature
gets warmer. Many
years years ago, back in my 20’s I studied in Kingsborough community
college and I remember I took a class in which we talked about the global
warming .How worse the global warming is going to get in the future.
I got really scared at that time. Before I took that class I didn’t
know what the global warming was. Media didn’t even care about these
problems. Even if they gave some news on TV, that news didn’t really
affect people’s minds. Scientists argued about global warming back in
1970 but nobody cared what was going to happen to the world. Scientists
asked the government to do something about these problems. According
to “Common dreams.org” Senator John McCain said back in the year 2004
“I don’t have any plan” .Look these places right now. The decision that
they made at that time affected our life today. >The
ocean is the prettiest view from my house. I see the waves playing with
each other, coming and going. The ocean level has been raised .These
was caused by the temperature. Some of the ice on the polar ice caps
has melted and has caused the rise of the ocean level. The ocean destroyed
some of the houses near to it. Years ago nearby my city, there was a
beautiful island .It was called Manhattan .It was full of people, huge
buildings, and lot of cars. I used to go there so many times in my past
but now every thing is gone; it is been destroyed. The flooding caused
that island to disappear. Thousands of people were killed because they
were not able to be evacuated in time. The flooding was caused by the
increase of the greenhouse gases .The increasing of these gases comes
from factories, transportation, and energy that we used and use every
day. If the government replaced these with more efficient technologies
we wouldn’t have lost most parts of the world. Back in those years we
enjoyed that beach and the water of that ocean; now the island is “enjoying”
that water and is swimming as well too. Isn’t that a terrible thing? A
siren took my attention .It was an ambulance .Every 10 minutes they
drive through the streets .A lot of people are getting sick and sicker
every day. Hundreds of people die and the causes of that are UV (ultraviolet
radiations). The atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which protects
us from the sun. The chemicals like oil, gas, and coal produce CO2,
which destroyed the ozone layers. As a result a lot of people are dying
from skin cancer, heart disease and eye disease. People
in these years are so skinny and tired. This is caused by lack of food.
Back in the years the supermarkets were full of food but now some of
those supermarkets are destroyed, and some have so little food that
no one can keep the body in a good health. The agriculture is almost
down .There are no more gardens, no more trees, and no more fruits.
They are all dried out. Now we don’t have good food with vitamins, and
we don’t have clean air to breathe. This caused to a lot of people lung
disease. The Senate Agriculture Subcommittee held a hearing in the year
2004 on how farming practices, such as no-till farming, could reduce
carbon emissions. During the hearing, several Senators from agricultural
states that global warming needed to be addressed but nobody cared about
those words. Plants
and trees are natural regulators of the atmosphere .They help keep things
in balance. People’s activity destroyed the forests and they upset the
balance and actually resulted in increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The tropical forests in the United States have died off as the temperature
has rise .In the Great Smoky Mountains, 15% of the tree population has
been reduced. People are destroying whatever is left of the earth‘s
plants especially to build houses. If people don’t stop destroying the
tropical forests, the earth will not have enough oxygen for creatures
on this planet and all the few survivors will die. The animals that
live in the forest have disappeared .Some of them died because there
was not food and they didn’t have any place to live. One – fourth of
the known species of mammals are threatened, and the half of these may
be gone within a decade. Possibly one-third of all species may be lost
before the end of the next century. I
am so tired looking at the nature outside .I am so tired suffering from
these conditions of life; I am so tired seeing people suffer from a
lot of diseases. God give us strength to start fighting these things.
I closed my window and turned my back to everything outside, thinking
and praying for our life in this planet, for the future of our children.
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Anna Shapiro Message in a
bottle. This
is sometime after the year 2050. It is a beautiful day in a small village
near the Colorado Mountains. It is a village where all fishermen and
their families live. It is almost a coastal area now because the ocean
line has moved toward the mountains to the center of the country. A
Little boy and his father are going fishing. When they got to the coast
and started to settle for the fishing, little boy saw something in the
water. He thought it was some sea creature and called his father. The
waves pushed this “creature” down to their feet. A few moments after,
they realized it was something else…. It
was a bottle containing a piece of paper, a message for people. This
letter was from the year 2050. It was written by an old lady and she
was asking people to save the planet. The letter was saying: “Dear people,
in the year 2050 the world looks like it needs help. I am living in
this world right now and I am passing this message down to you. I
remember 46 years ago, when I was a student we were very concerned about
our home, our country and our environment. We did some research on Global
Warming and our planet’s future was not so promising. Things were going
in a very negative way. Scientists had been talking about the environmental
issues for decades, but that did not help much because all major steps
and decisions were up to the Government. Scientists are still talking
about big changes that are going to happen in the world. They still
are trying to warn people about what would happen to the world if we
do not do anything about it. It has happened a lot already. People,
actually, have started thinking very carefully about our planet. I
used to live in New York, that big and beautiful city. People use to
call it “The Capital of the World”. It now is under the water because
it used to be the coastal area. I live now in the mountains; people
left all coastal areas and moved to the center of the country. It all
happened because we made it happen. Sea level rose by a few meters
and we lost New York. Big storms are now our unwelcome guests. Climate
has changed a lot since I was young. It is now much hotter and people
wear light clothes. We don’t have any more winter time and snow. There
is no balance in the atmosphere at all. The Pattern of the four seasons
is completely erased. I
remember movies that were made specifically to let people know about
the environmental problems. That was the movie “Erin Brockovich” and
“Day After Tomorrow”. Also, I remember a few poems that came to us from
the 16th century. Poets were very concerned about the nature
and changes in technology. Technology
went far away in now days compare to the 16th century. We
have many fewer factories right now because size of the country has
decreased and we have less needs and less population. One progress has
been made in the cars: gasoline fuel has been replaced by electronic
fuel. So, we don’t have car emissions any more. But we still pollute
the air with other pollutants. Storms
destroy our crops and people suffer from lack of food very often. That
leads us to lack of nutrients, because people’s diet is very poor in
some areas. Diseases are very common and life expectancy has been decreased.
People have to carry portable oxygen machines around because the air
that we breathe contains less oxygen than before. People are still cutting
down the trees because everybody likes Christmas, it is still our favorite
holiday. Life
has changed and society has also. People’s lifestyle has changed a lot.
Those, who use to live in the big cities, like New York, now live in
the rural areas near the mountains. We now have to plant food by ourselves,
a lot of people have no idea how to do it, but they are learning. Some
of them like it. The
Geography of the world has changed also. We now don’t have small islands
any more and the shape of some countries has changed. Ships have been
replaced by submarines. Some people live on submarines; they find it
more exotic. As
I said, life is very different now from what I remember. I don’t know
how your life looks because my bottle could have traveled many years.
But I wish everything was in livable condition. May be you can make
things that we could not. I only want the best for our planet and I
really wish that you, people, do love your big home and never let anything
bad happen to it.
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Zuleyha Gul Dear Leyla,
I am very glad that you are not
living through this disaster. Even though, I was very sad when you passed away on It all started after 2010 with a
huge earthquake. It was very intense. After that earthquake, air pollution
became severe. We had trouble breathing. This problem was caused by all of us
but the earthquake was just a spark. We didn’t care about recycling and we kept
on destroying our environment. We cut up trees to make papers but we wasted
these papers for our own good. We ripped these papers up so we could play withº
paper balls. We wasted our oxygen source. The polar ice cap stared melting
but no one did anything about it. No steps were taken to prevent it. And now we
can’t live a normal life. We all have to move to the center of the country. We
can’t stay in the rural areas, because the melting of the polar ice cap has
taken up much of the land. We are left with so little to live on. There is no balance in the
atmosphere. One day it’s 100ºF while on another day it is 5ºF and we don’t know
what to wear. One day we go out with a sweater and on another day we wear bathing
suits. When the weather is hot, we are scared to go out. The government decided
to close the manufacturing companies because of the pollution to the
environment. Many of us have lost our jobs and don’t have a lot of money. Now
we have to make our own clothes by hand. We are all wearing the same style of
clothing. So many of us are exposed to ultra violet rays that most of us have
skin cancer. I am one of the lucky one who hasn’t been exposed to skin cancer
yet. I will get it soon too. When we are hot, we can not go swimming. The water
is so polluted that one can see bugs, roaches and rats in the water. It is a nasty
sight. The landscape has changed a lot.
The plants are dying due to many reasons. One reason is the balance of the
atmosphere. Since one day it is hot and another day it is cold, some plants
cannot survive. Most of the plants are dying. The death of these plants is
resulting in the death of most of the herbivores. Since these animals are dying
humans are losing their sources of protein. We humans aren’t able to function
like we used to. Most humans have brain damage, since we aren’t able to obtain
all our nutrients. Scientists are making vitamin pills, and we have one pill
for each nutrient that we lack and that we are unable to obtain. Since we are
not able to get our nutrients from resources, we have been experiencing loss of
senses. Recently, a friend of mine has lost her sight. There is a huge demand for water
but this can’t be met. The water is much polluted. Water is like wine to us and
we are only able to drink once in a while. If someone is able to drink pure
water once in a while, they are lucky. The life expectancy is lower. Every day,
there is at least one death in Recently, there has been mutation
in the genes of people. The new born babies are fit to survive in the present
world. They have the thicker and darker skin. They might survive this disaster
but humanity will never be the same. Some babies are born with two noses. One
nose is used to breathe in and the second one is used to exhale. This is
because the air is polluted. Also, babies are born with more hair to save them
from skin cancer since the ozone layer is destroyed. In conclusion, all of these events
could have been prevented. If we had paid attention to the world around us, we
could have changed our own lives. If we had been educated about recycling, we
would have saved the world. The ozone layer could have existed today. All I can
say is we got what we deserved.
Zuleyha
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Odriste Luxama Many
scientists believe that we have enough knowledge to predict things in the
future. They believe that if certain things continue to fall into bad condition
at a steady pace, the year 2050 the world will face a great catastrophe that
may affect life on earth. And that will be the result of the greenhouse effect.
The greenhouse effect influences global warming and ozone depletion. It causes
a terrible situation for human lives and the situation will continue in the
future. The greenhouse effect is very
important. Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would not be warm enough
for humans to live. But if the greenhouse effect becomes stronger, it could
make the Earth warmer than usual. Even a little extra warming may cause
problems for humans, plants and animals. The greenhouse effect is the rise in
temperature that the earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere (water,
dioxide carbon, nitrous oxide and methane, for example) transport energy from
the sun. Without these gases, life as we know it would not exist on earth. This
global warming can cause significant global climate changes. Ultraviolet radiation is the major
problem for people’s lives in the world. For humans, it can cause people to
have skin cancer and eyes diseases. For marine life, it can cause them to die.
For nature, it causes global warming. According to the U.S. satellite Nimbus-7
quickly confirmed the result” CFCs destroy the ozone hole that form over Antarctica each October has spread around
the world. The ozone hole can be as big as 1.5 times larger then the United
States.”(Www.solcomhouse.com/ozonehhole.com). Human society
is highly dependent on the Earth ‘s climate. Climate patterns and human
adaptations determine the availability of food, fresh water and other resources
for sustaining life. The year 2050 is a catastrophe for everybody. There are
several factors their can explain this catastrophe. Economically it affects
people because factories or industries cannot produce cause air pollution. In
this case people have to work more to make money and the economy goes down.
Physically, people feel depressed, tired and angry. That’s very catastrophic
for people living this year. Another problem that may be caused by the
greenhouse effect is the depletion of the ozone layer. We know that the ozone
layer is important in protecting the earth against ultraviolet radiation from
the sun. If we continue to be careless about the year 2050 there will be more
skin cancer, cataracts and eye diseases. According to the article” The
greenhouse Effect” in the book “ Interdisciplinary English”, 1% depletion of
the ozone layer may result in an extra 70.000 cases of skin cancer every year.
These numbers may give an idea clear of what the problem would be According to the same article in
the book, Increased ultraviolet radiation is harmful to all life on earth. Our food depends on plants.
Everything we eat comes from plants. The animals we eat feed on plants. We need
plants to live because that helps in the oxygen cycle take in the carbon
dioxide that we exhale and give off oxygen. If we are taken measures to prevent
the depletion of the ozone layer, in the year 2050, we will not only see more
people with eye diseases and skin cancer, but the ecosystem of the earth will
be destroyed and it will be very difficult to have life on earth. The food chain in the sea would be
affected also. The article “ Greenhouse Effect” also talks about plankton as
the basis of the food chain in the sea. Plankton consists of tiny plants and
animals and is eaten by larger marine creatures. If the plankton were killed as
a result of increased levels of ultraviolet radiation, the fish would starve,
the seas would die, and a major source of human food would be lost. It is not only reasonable to expect
people to behave with respect for the environment. But getting people to make
needed changes in their lifestyle is not so easy. To illustrate: most people
agree that automobiles contribute to global warming. Hence, an individual may
want to cut back on driving. But doing so may not be so easy. As Wolfgang Sachs from the Wuppertal
Institute for Climate, Environment, and energy recently pointed out, “ All the
places that play a role in daily life (workplace, kindergarten, school or
shopping center) lie so far apart that you cannot manage without a car… whether
I personally want a car has nothing to do with it. Most folks simply have no
choice.”
Senator Clinton at a press conference yesterday on the importance of
protection from increased pollutants. It ‘s “really a matter of life and
death’, said Mrs. Clinton, who was joined by environment experts. While cars
and other local pollution sources contribute to News York’s smog problem,
pollution from out of state sources is also a problem, she said. According to the
American Lung Association’s State of the Air report for 2004, 17 of 25 counties
in New York received an F rating for ozone levels. Those translate to 80% of
the people living in those counties breathing unacceptable amounts of ozone. Since many view this problem as
manmade, cannot man solve the problem? A number of
communities have already enacted laws to limit pollution emissions from cars
and factories. Pollution is a global problem, so the solution would have to be
global. Many scientists fear that the increased concentrations of greenhouse
gases have prevented additional thermal radiation from leaving the earth. In
essence, these gases are trapping excess heat in the Earth’s atmosphere in much
the same way that a windshield traps solar energy that enters a car. The greenhouse effect and air pollution
are destroying the atmosphere cap and the ozone. Ultraviolet radiation of the
sun will rise up over the earth planet with more power. The trend on ozone
pollution has been going the wrong way for the last few years. For
precautionary measures, people should stay informed about their county’s ozone
levels and adjust their plans accordingly, which may include restricting
outdoor play. I believe that real environmental change depends on us. We can’t
wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and
how we can make the change happen. Life in 2050 could be very hard for
all inhabitants of this planet because the warm temperatures will increase
which will be more difficult for all to live with. The climate would be
changed; the temperature will be higher, the rivers contaminated with air
pollution and toxic gases. The deforestation will lead to less oxygen in the
air. Also if the oceans are covered with pollution it will stop raining because
water will not evaporate, so plants and fish will die of these things happen,
these would be no life, on the earth.
Since
neither governments nor individuals can solve the problems of the global
warming, who can? From ancient times, people have looked to the heavens for
help in controlling the weather. As naïve as such efforts were they do reveal a
basic truth. Clearly, the threat of global warming must be taken more
seriously.
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Byeungsoo Koo We,
human beings, have got this beautiful nature of the world from our ancestors
for hundreds of millions of years, and it is our duty and responsibility
to give this wonderful nature to our descendants. However, these days
we are using and utilizing natural products from the land, the ocean,
and the air so much that we continue to destroy everything from the
nature for our convenience. Now in 2050 we are seriously faced with
big problems such as
global
warming and ozone depletion
Since
the industrial revolution of the 19th century, we have developed
a lot of technologies to save our lives, to survive the changes in climate,
and to adapt our lives into new environment. Our new, high technologies
make it possible to cure the diseases such as AIDS, diabetes and heart
attacks that were thought to be incurable by using highly developed
medicines. That is a great progress that our highly sophisticated civilization
has developed. However, those human technologies caused more serious
problems to the entire ecosystem. Global
warming makes the temperature of the earth warm by emitting carbon dioxide
and gases such as methane, nitrous oxide to the atmosphere. Even though
we have been warned about global warming since 1970’s, we haven’t taken
any necessary, proper actions not to worsen the warming on the atmosphere.
As a result, the nature which we are supposed to hand down to our descendants
in a beautiful condition is getting damaged worse and worse. The temperature
at the atmosphere, for example, is now so high that much of ice caps
on both south and north poles are melted. That melting has caused a
terrible tragedy to human beings, animals, and plants. We have been
losing many of our beautiful ocean cities like NY, San Francisco, and
are forced to live near mountain areas to escape further flood. The
ocean used to cover 3/4 of the earth, but now more than 4/5 is covered
by the ocean. We are also getting less and less land to live in. That
is why we now have a great shortage of food, caused by floods, loss
of agricultural land. We can’t even count how many people died by the
floods, shortage of food, and diseases caused by climate changes. Think
about the land that we used to have, our neighborhood, beautiful summer
beaches where we went every summer to swim, and the green lawn that
we used to play in. Now everything is gone under water. What a terrible
life we live in because of global warming! Another
dangerous, disastrous problem we face is ozone depletion caused by releasing
dangerous chemicals into the air. The earth used to have an umbrella
of gas to protect it from the dangerous radiation that the sun produces.
The ozone layer is supposed to absorb most of dangerous ultraviolet
radiation from the sun. But the release of chemicals like CFCs into
the air has made a hole in the ozone layer and a large amount of dangerous
ultraviolet reaches the earth. The ozone depletion has been increasing
the skin cancer and eye diseases. We have had more and more people who
suffer from skin cancer that is impossible to cure with our technology
we have, and we have lost so many friends, relatives to the skin cancer.
The ozone depletion also caused a big problem to the world’s food supply.
The temperature is now so high that the desert is expanding, forests
are getting smaller, and it is hard to breath, especially in summer.
In fact, we don’t seem to have any snowy winter after the nations fiercely
competed to take economic control all over the world economically and
to have more convenience for us. We
always wanted a better future, a better life to live as we imagined
possible at the turn of the century, but now we just live in very hot
weather, packed smaller area. This is not the future we always imagined.
We should’ve taken any proper actions not to make global warming happen.
Most people think that it is too late to go back to 50 years ago when
it was possible to live in combination with human beings and nature.
However, I think it is still possible for the environment we live in
to get better by reducing air pollution, by gradually stopping using
dangerous chemical gases. I just hope that our future children can live
without thinking about pollution.
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Jacinta Asillo Global Warming in 2050
In the year 2050, the global warming will become a
serious problem. The winds will blow 100 miles per hour. The temperature will increase enormously. We are
all going to drink pollute water. People will easily get different kinds of
diseases, such as diarrhea and malaria causing deshegratation and malnutrition.
Global warming will affect the entire world.
The mountains and their forest will disappear because it will be covered
with water. The animals, such as birds,
monkeys, snakes will disappear because they lost their place where they use to habitat.
There would not be food for them, not even water to drink, due to global
warming. Yet, the government and the Environmental agencies halted
and ignored the global warming issue years ago. Government and their people thought
only about war in Iraq They are spending millions of dollars in that war. Instead they should spend that money to stop
the global warming problem before we get in the year 2050.
In the year 2050, global warming will increase more than
I could have imagined. According to the text "The greenhouse effect” by
Dr. Loretta Kasper, the green house effect will be felt in worldwide. The
temperature would rise at We all know that the ozone is most important for human life.
In the past and today ozone layer were depleted because of human activities, like
people using chemical thing, such as chlorofluorocarbons, aerosol cans,
refrigerators, and air-conditioned system which contain CFC. These are emitted
into the atmosphere. It rises up to the
ozone layer. When the CFC's reach the ozone then ultraviolet radiation from the
sun strike it. These dangerous and harmful chemicals keep rising the
temperature. Including greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide
increased result in the depletion of ozone layer. As a consequence, people in the whole world
will suffer from skin cancer, eyes disease and cataracts, caused by ultraviolet
radiation. We know the temperature of the planet is going to be
worse. In the 2050 people will try to protect themselves by using sunglasses
and a cream for sunburn but these will not work because the temperature will
reach 200 degrees. People will not have air-conditioning
Companies of the manufactures will stop making electrical equipment. In the
cities we are going to use candles, if we find any. If not cities would be dark without light. There will be no rain; the whole world is going to face
drought, famine, and starvation. If there is little water left, it will be polluted.
Polluted water and lack of food will cause people to die. They will get stomach
aches and diarrhea caused dehydration. Farmers can not grow crops. There will
no food supplies because the global warming will destroy their farms. Plant and
vegetables grow with rain. No rain and no water so, no food also. In the future sea temperature will rise. The water in the
ocean will become hot by global warming. Animals in the ocean such as fish crabs,
whales, dolphins will die because of hot water and lack of food. Sea plants which
are plankton, algae give oxygen to living creature will also die. So, animals
in the sea will die because their foods will disappear. We are going to see tragedy in the
year 2050, which we have never seen in the past years. We should prepare for
it. We should not let global warming increase. We should reduce using the chemical
things that lead to ozone depletion. The
government is still not doing anything. We
should help to stop increase the global warming by writing a letter that they
must awake, to do something for the greenhouse effect problem. We should do
something. If not we are all going to die in the year 2050.
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Oleksiy Vasylyev
The
Letter from the past. May 4 2050 Dear reader
if you can read this letter it means you found my letter in the locker of Grand
Central. Its mean everything gets back to normal, ocean level get back and you
living in the dutiful city of all times. My name is Vasylyev Oleksiy. I put
this letter in the locker in June 22, 2063. It’s been my last diving in NYC
area. Today in
the morning from the news I found out that what was last Australian island is
under the water. Last couple months the level of water surface starts to grow
again. In the news they also said what is going to the end. They mean what is
“global warming” is going too finished soon. Right now we have a high
temperature in day time is 176 degrees and at night is 152 degrees. I have gotten
used to this temperature; other people too. I am still living in NYS area but
in the old and high area that was called In 2014
when people actually started to do something about ozone layer and pollution?
In time then people started to understand what it can cause; they had been late
at least for 60 years. In the end of 20 century and in the beginning of 21
century a lot of science professors like doctor Wigley and doctors started
talking about these problems. Doctor Wigley and people from environmental
system called Sierra club. They started to talk to the people about pollution
problems and global warming. In 2004 the In 2005
people started thinking that the greenhouse
effect was very important. Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would not
be warm enough for humans to live. But if the greenhouse effect becomes
stronger, it could make the Earth warmer than usual. Even a little extra
warming may cause problems for humans, plants and animals. The greenhouse
effect is the rise in temperature that the earth experiences because certain
gases in the atmosphere (water, dioxide carbon, nitrous oxide and methane, for
example) transport energy from the sun. Without these gases, life as we know it
would not exist on earth. This global warming can cause significant global
climate changes. People understand that the pollution is a major problem
in the greenhouse effect. The smoke and fumes from automobile pipes are creating
problems and we humans breathing this air are suffering from lung cancer. But the polar ice caps melted a long time before people realized the
major world problem. The Polar ice started melting from the North and South
Pole and due to this people moved to the center of the country and left the
coastal areas. The coastal areas, like Dear reader in conclusion, all of these events could have been prevented.
If we had paid attention to the world around us, we could have changed our own
lives. The future people on the
mother earth after you have read my letter please respect the nature living
around you. The earth is only the place where people start the long journey of
life and where you are going to be live forever. Do not make it any worse than
it is now. P.S. Sincerely yours Vasylyev
Oleksiy
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Essay Topic: Imagine that it is the year 2050. Although governments and
their citizens were warned about the dangers of the greenhouse effect as early
as the 1970's, they did not take the necessary steps to prevent it from
worsening. As a result, global warming and ozone depletion continued unchecked.
In a well-organized essay, describe what life would be like in the year 2050
under these conditions. What would be the state of the climate? What would the
nations of the world look like? What would be the day-to-day living conditions
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