Climate Change in the Future: Final Blog

Read one article on the front page of IHSS that you haven't read and write a 15 sentence blog in reaction to the article.  Tie the contents to something that you have learned in class this year.

As climate change becomes more and more of a heated topic, and as scientists and environmentalists push for change, the issue of global warming and climate change is pushed into the faces of government officials. More and more people are pushing for federal actions to help prevent climate change, however, it has been shown that not all are in support of this progressive movement. There is a new standard on the way we address climate change that has been put into place all over the world- taxes. Everyone in the world values their money; it is a driving factor in our lives. So when applying taxes to everyday goods that worsen greenhouse gases, it puts citizens in a state where we have to choose; our money or the sacrifice of many of the luxuries we've grown accustomed to. This is how many people see it, as new laws are introduced to countries especially that have tied themselves with the Paris Accord. However, even in France, the birthplace of the act, there is severe backlash. In 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron was trying to introduce a tax to raise the prices on diesel and gasoline, a common everyday item for many citizens. This led to violent demonstrations in the streets of many of France's cities, and caused a delay in the action. 
This year we talked about climate change and the way we interact with our environment, as well as how we make laws. Towards the end of the year we focused on civil rights, and I was wondering if in the future, the way we treat our environment could be categorized as a "right" to our planet. Throughout the past two century we have seen so many changes arise in the way we interact person to person and the way we interact with our environment. In the 1800's we saw the rise of Industrialization, and now we have iPhones. In the early 1900's we saw segregation, and in the 1960's the Civil Rights movement, that forever changed the structure of American Society. These were some of the most prominent issues at the time, and now the issue we're facing is climate change. It's not a social issue, but rather an issue of how we want to continue life on this planet. What we do now will effect generations to come, and if that's not important I don't know what it. We might think it radical now to go zero waste, or up carbon taxes, or to go plastic free. But even fifty years ago we were living in a completely different world, and it's our decision now to see where we will go in the years to come, just as they did during Industrialization  just as they did during the Civil Right's moment. 


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