The Importance Of Green Theory

Climate change has within the past twenty years come to be extremely important to the world we live in. It has been observed that not only have temperatures been changing, but different locations throughout the world are experiencing weather patterns that were otherwise abnormal for these locations. In California, although wildfires had always been an issue, this problem has grown much more serious than in previous decades as there has been more extensive droughts. This is not the only example, in many places such as the arctic polar ice caps are melting and in island regions such as Guam, the ocean is becoming more acidic, destroying the coral reefs and sea life. Although there have always been minor changes in climate over time, the extensiveness

This meant that not only was the population growing, but also pollution as more material was needed and more resources ended up being exploited to keep up with the growth. This led to a concern for the environment, or the creation of environmentalism as a concept. With a larger economy and population resources become unsustainable, and one of the main pillars of Green Theory is taking responsibility for the environmental impact of a country, as well as not over-consuming, and many countries, including the United States were doing both of these things. Although environmental awareness become predominant in the mid 1950s and into the 1960s, Green Theory specifically was not created until the 1970s, when the United States President, Richard Nixon created the US Environmental Protection Agency, officially bringing environmental problems to the governmental

Climate change has been raised as a problem both on the domestic and international levels in the United States, and Green Theory can be used to help explain this growth in awareness. This has led to programs such as the Environmental Protection Agency sponsored Clean Air Act, which determined that carbon-dioxide and greenhouse gases were harming the general public. Policies such as the Clean Air Act although it mainly focuses on the wellbeing for humans would still fall under the concept of Green Theory for it is considered a governmental approach to the environment or the non-human resources and falls under the pillar of taking