Global Warming, Its Effects on the US Economy, the Environment and More

Avoiding irreversible planetary calamity--and instead guiding human development in positive directions that are healthy, diverse, and sustainable--is the primary moral obligation of our era. This profound mission is what makes the modern environmental movement more than "just one more special interest."
The environmental movement, having enjoyed many successes at the city, state, and national levels, now needs to begin to address the global problems that threaten to undo all our progress elsewhere. Energy and climate change will be the first major test.
Hopefully you have ended your reading of this paper with a greater knowledge and understanding of global warming. We hope that you realize its dangers, its consequence on an individual, on a community, on a nation, but most importantly - on the world. Global Warming is not just a myth as some would contend it is, it is a clear and present danger. Global warming truly is a danger to - perhaps not us - but certainly to our posterity, a danger that must be combated immediately for fear of dire consequences.
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