Global Warming. We’ve heard about this topic since we were children, so why is it that young people are so pressured to take care of our Earth whereas adults aren’t?
Climate change has been one of the most controversial and intimidating topics of the last few years. Since ‘Generation Y’ are the first to grow up knowing of this issue, our eyes turn to our political leaders to help change the world. Unfortunately, many leaders have not been on board for helping limit climate change. The newly-elected president, Donald Trump, has transformed the official Environmental Protection Agency website into removing sentences describing the U.S’ efforts to help stop global warming.
There are some heroes leading the change, however, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been an avid campaigner for helping limit global warming. In October 2016, Trudeau announced that they have until 2018 to come up with a form of carbon pricing, or else the federal government will do it for them. This may not be a stretch, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
The connection in all of this is that there are two types of leaders, those that do what’s best for them, and those that do what’s best for everyone. Our generation is steadily becoming the leading generation in the world, and climate change is on all of our minds. Animals are going extinct, sea levels are rising at a rapid rate, and more deserts are being created by the day. All of this is created in large part of us, and we must do all we can to reverse it.
Political leaders need to realize how much of an impact the environment has on our lives. Hiding climate change tags on websites won’t do anything, and it’s our generation that will be the ones that will have to deal with it. In the western world, a leader is voted in. That leader needs to speak and do on behalf of its’ voters, not cower away and fire anyone that’s a threat.
Leaders lead people, and there are some political figures right now who aren’t doing that. Dividing a nation, whether it be through race, sexuality, or through generations, is not what should be done in the first month of presidency. Trudeau has done a fine job of trying to unite everyone. Maybe its’ the same that other leaders followed his example.
References:
Harris, K. (2016, October 03). Trudeau sets ‘floor’ carbon price of $10 a tonne by 2018, $50 by 2022. Retrieved February 06, 2017, from http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trudeau-climate-change-1.3788825
Central, B. K., Lavelle, M., McKenna, P., Gustin, G., John H. Cushman Jr., Lisa Song, Zahra Hirji, Jr., J. H., . . . Staff, I. (2017, February 3). Trump EPA removes climate change information from website. Retrieved from https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03022017/epa-donald-trump-climate-change-science-scott-pruitt
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