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What is global warming?
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The long term heating of the earth's surface
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that has been observed since the preindustrial period.
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However, since the industrial revolution,
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our world has been getting hotter and hotter each year
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at a rate that wasn't expected by scientists
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raising the annual global temperature by 1.5 degrees in total today,
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which may not seem like a huge number.
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But if the annual global temperatures continue to rise up to even just two
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F,
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we will start to see more than 70% of the earth's coastal lines.
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Sea levels rise greater than 700.66 ft
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resulting in coastal flooding,
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damaging beachside housing all the way up to whole cities, flooding,
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for example, Venice Italy, due to severe climate change,
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humans have been a huge cause of global warming.
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This is because global warming occurs when carbon
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dioxide dioxide or CO2 methane and many other harmful air pollutants known as
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greenhouse gasses reflect in the atmosphere
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and absorb sunlight and solar electromagnetic radiation
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that has bounced off the earth's surface.
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If we didn't have these pollutants in our atmosphere,
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and this radiation would go through out into space.
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But since there is all of these heat trapping pollutants
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that takes years or even centuries to escape our atmosphere.
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Our global temperature is still on the rise.
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Global warming will ultimately affect everyone and everything that is living.
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Global warming will ultimately affect everyone and everything that is living
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so far,
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the majority of humans have not experienced the true danger of climate change
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yet there are many other living
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creatures out there who are struggling dramatically
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to survive solely due to climate change.
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I said the beach lines are rising and towns
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are flooding where is all this water coming from?
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The whole ocean is being disrupted due to extreme heat and the Arctic
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melting along with many ecosystems dying off due to change of environment,
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having these ecosystems die out will create an effect on human living conditions
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such as crops, food availability
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and decreased water scarcity
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with temperatures rising and more radiation and
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heat getting trapped into our world.
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It is slowly showing its effects with increased skin cancer and sun sensitivity.
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Our air has become more polluted, causing more respiratory distress or allergens.
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It has also even been linked to lung cancer.
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Recent study shows
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that pollution could be linked to several other types of
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cancer as well such as breast liver and pancreatic cancer.
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Well,
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we know that climate change has been around for much longer than
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we have to the freezing and warming of the ice age.
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Adding nonna ways that are affecting global temperatures
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like burning fossil fuels isn't for healthy,
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isn't healthy for us or our planet.
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We as citizens and the leaders of our country and the world need to
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work together to make an impact by using less plastic and more organic material,
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reducing carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions.
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We need to stop cutting down our forests and replant the ones that we've destroyed.
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We need to lower our consumption as a whole in our country and world.
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We need to get to the point where
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big industries and corporations
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won't make enough money to remain stable.
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For two
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study shows that if one out of three people living in a neighborhood owned chickens,
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that it would completely diminish the egg industry as
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a whole leading to less greenhouse gas emissions.
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I am requesting this grant because the majority of people
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want to help stop global warming and save our planet.
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But the people who are in power
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have control.
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For example, President Joe Biden just a couple months ago on March 13th, 2023
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proved an exploratory oil drilling camp on the Alaskan slope
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with claims that this project will lower oil prices and boost
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things like national security by lessening our country's reliance on foreign oil
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which would be great,
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but all things great come with a price
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and this price would be devastating.
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Going through with the willow project will release 239
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million metric tons of carbon emissions into our atmosphere.
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Transportation being the number one for releasing carbon emissions,
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producing 7.3 billion metric tons in 2020.