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Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Crisis

It has different names, but thay all mean the same thing: The Earth's environment is changing, and we, human beings are the primary cause.

The way that we live our lives are hurting the Earth's ecological system. The factories that produce our computers and televisions, the planes we fly, the cars we drive all put toxic chemicals – pollution – into the air and water. We cut down forests and destroy coral reefs. We spoil and waste precious resources like the topsoil where we grow our crops or the stocks of fish in the oceans. We destroy the homes of the animals, their habitats.

Human beings are putting pollution into the atmosphere. That pollution is trapping heat and raising the temperature of te air, the oceans, and the surface of the Earth. There are six types of air pollution, created by human beings that rogether are causing climate crisis. Five are gases that are normally found in the air, but human beings are creating more of theses gases. This is changing the balance of the atmosphere and causing global warming.

The pollution that is causing global warming comes from human activity. Carbon Dioxide is produced whenever we burn something. When we burn coal to make electricity, when we burn gasoline in our cars, or when we burn gas in our stoves, we add more cabon dioxide to the air. These are just a few of the ways we are changing the atmosphere and destroying our climate.

(From our choice – How We Can Solve The Climate Crisis, by Al Gore in Amadeu Marques, 2010, p. 10-11 - Volume)