Global Warming And The Climate Change - 1740 Words

By 2014, about 81% of the total 98.3 quadrillion Btu of energy used are produced by burning petroleum, natural gas, and coal in the United States (US EIA). Could you imagine how much greenhouse gases are produced in the energy extraction process, and how could these gases intensify global warming and climate change? In Naomi Klein’s book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, Klein describes climate change as a catastrophic crisis that the whole world is encountering. Hundreds of cities are threatened by rising sea-levels, wildlife are in danger due to disruption of ecosystems, more extreme heat waves are recorded, all of these are essentially catalyzed by climate change. Klein blamed on capitalism, an economic model used by†¦show more content†¦As evidence of climate change become more conspicuous and understandable, many suggestions were offered by scientists, politicians, and journalists to fight for it. One of Klein’s ideal approaches to tackl e climate change is that the government should tell the industry that â€Å"we will support you, but only if you support the communities from which you profit, by providing well-paying local jobs, and sourcing your products locally† (126). However, no matter how much money a person has, one barely invests all of it solely to one aspect of interest, as most of us have a lot to take care of in life—family, residence, properties, friendship—while we have limited time and money. This is the same for corporations which are all managed by humans, who choose what to invest on for maximum profit. They do not make non-profitable investment which involves a too broad range of business, including both renewable and non-renewable industries. Consequently, the non-renewable employment sector must decline in response to the cooperation between companies and the government to provide more renewable jobs. According to the official statistics on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, t he fossil fuel business—extraction, manufacturing and supply of coal, gas and oil—employs more than 2 million people in the US by January 2016 (U.S. BLS). In