*Not every persons statement reflects their own personal beliefs.*
For the Positive: Jacob
Hello ladies and gentlemen. Look at your environment, now at this landscape. Back to your environment, now back to this landscape. Sadly your environment is not this landscape, but maybe if today’s youth would do more to prevent climate change it could look like this landscape. All jokes aside though, this issue of climate change is no small thing. I assume you are aware of how global temperatures have been rising over the past couple years. We’ve all heard the story, carbon dioxide is being released into the sky realms and it’s killing out atmosphere like H. H. Holmes to one of his tenants, now why wouldn’t you want to help in some way? I’m not one to believe that climate change will end the world, but I do like our climate where it is.
Helping to prevent climate change doesn’t have to be difficult and tedious, it can actually be quite fun if you make it. On top of that, by helping in the task of prevention, you are also choosing to help the prevention of the ice caps, home to many, many adorable animals. Because let’s face it, you wouldn’t want to be responsible for the deaths of animals from the ice caps.
So how can you help? Well it is actually very easy. Just to name a few things, you can try wearing a sweater in the winter (turn down that thermostat!), use a reusable water bottle instead of buying those plastic bottles, make sure your electronics are off when not in use, and oh yeah… eat lots of steak.
That’s right, because cows (among other livestock) are a huge source of methane gas being released into the atmosphere, aiding in this thing we call climate change; so it stands to reason that the more cows you eat, the less there will be to pollute the atmosphere. So think about it, not only do you get to enjoy a nice sirloin, but you also get to stick it to a hippie.
For the Negative: Nick
Young people shouldn’t have to put too much time into changing their ways for climate change. They are young and those above them should be making a way for them to enter into a brighter world. Adults contribute just as much if not more to our climates problems and need to be questioned as to whether they could make a more positive change to the climate.
The Government should be the leaders in creating change. If they want the future world to work properly, and in a healthy manner, then they should attend to the needs of the climate. Young people should not be relied upon to take responsibility for such a thing. They are already enduring through a hard and stressful time with school, university and planning for the future.
I think that this question comes down to personal choice. If someone envisions the world as a melting gassy ice block then they can aim toward their own conquest of saving it, but as a generation young people shouldn't be help responsible.
Our world is stuck in a cycle. Adults provide the world - and youth - with cars, cars which are known to be killers of the environment. But it's all good to share the news of public transport, but how many people would actually sell their car? We can’t live without transport and just like the generation before us, it would be hard for youth to change the world's main means of travel.
The Youth of today are unfairly thrown into the grasp of consumerism and most of the products that they would buy vastly and incrementally add to the effects of a bad climate. But we have to remember that people make a living off selling kids useless junk. So youth shouldn’t be to blame in this area. We all live off the world and it pays for it. It's a big problem but the youth aren't the generation who should have to take action.
Just as the older generation prepare us for the world, they should also prepare the world for us.
Just as the older generation prepare us for the world, they should also prepare the world for us.
What do you think? Should young people be doing more to prevent Climate Change? If yes, what kind of things should we be doing?
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