Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future

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The Genesis of a Global Catastrophe
Preserving the world is an overlooked important ideal that many fail to accomplish. Global climate change, a life threatening issue at Earth’s feet. The Industrial Revolution was a time of sweeping change in the world from having a rural economy to a dominant urban economy which was and has been strictly based on industries and machines. Coal, Oil and Gas Industries are the burning of fossil fuels. As we begun to burn fuels for energy, the beginning of a Global catastrophe had begun. Our future is not very promising if we do not take actions now, but world leaders are failing to recognize the tragedy at our midst. Global Warming is no longer a theory, but a fact with evidence to support this from taking a …show more content…

Whether it is out of fear, ignorance, or both, this is a concerning issue. The people who can actually make a difference and have a wide reach of audience to inform and inspire are claiming that Global Warming is just a hoax. Sen. James M. Inhofe wrote a book titled, “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.” According to a website Inhofe’s top political contributors are oil and gas industries giving him the highest percentage of his contributions (Opensecrets.org). Not a mere coincidence, evidently, it shows why he defends the use of these high-energy fuels. Money can really drive people to do and say anything, maybe even write a book about how a global threatening issue is just a made up story scientists tell to make the world tremble. There are seemingly seen important public figures such as Donald Trump, U.S President, who believes global warming was created by and for the Chinese; Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, who laughs at the thought of the fools many make of themselves when justifying it; and Rush Limbaugh, talk show host, who claims the issue to be a scam. Global Warming interferes with politicians’ agenda. Is it even wise at this point? World leaders and large public figures deny the evidence of a global threatening issue in which experts claim to be a crisis we are facing, these are the people who represent us, who can …show more content…

On 2016, hurricane season was vicious, it had greeted Florida with Tropical Storm Hermine which strengthened into a hurricane and Hawaii with two promising storms. Manuel, a climate scientist, said that the evidence suggested “climate change would cause the strongest storms to grow even stronger, and to be more frequent” (Schwartz). Hurricane Matthew was one of the most drastic hurricanes 2016 saw, with category five, fifteen billion dollars’ worth of damage, and six hundred and three fatalities. The following year was no prettier, in fact it made the world grow mad. Tragedy after tragedy, natural disasters one after the other. It was a vicious never ending cycle. With hurricanes of category 4-5 such as Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas with a category 4, Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic, and Hurricane Maria with category 5 in the Dominica and a major crisis in Puerto Rico that still