Reflective Essay on Global Warming

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Nature is the world around us, except for human-made phenomena. As humans are the only animal species that consciously, powerfully manipulates the environment, we think of us as exalted, as special. We acknowledge that in an objective view we are merely one of many organisms, and that we are not able to survive outside of our natural world of air, earth, water and life. But we tend to be poor leaders in the “hierarchy” of animal life. Despite our greatness, too often we waste, we fight, we breed heedlessly, and are too self-centered and short-sighted. I truly believe that we, the people of the earth, need to start taking better care of our home before it becomes a living hell. Earth is so large, that even if we humans destroy ourselves, plus most other life forms, there will still be nature. The soil, oceans, atmosphere and weather would still interact with solar power to allow some life to exist. Earth cannot be a barren place like the moon. Humans can, then, reduce our planetary paradise into a hell of sorts. This gloomy thought is a modern one; in earlier ages it is unlikely that people contemplated ourselves wiping-out most life on earth. I don't know why I brought it to the forefront of my nature essay. It does offer a perspective. The Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film about global warming on planet earth. The purpose of the film is to educate people about the dangers of global warming. The damage the people of earth are doing to the climate with regards to over population, plant factory chemicals, gas guzzling trucks, cutting trees, smoke decreasing the ozone layer, and not recycling. Furthermore, the film shows helpful steps to take to have a greener earth and slow the global warming. Today, we have developed the technology to use solar, wind, water, and other elements besides fossil fuels to generate power. Even in this age of
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