Global Warming Persuasive Speech

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Thanks to U.S space-agency NASA's ominous new warning on the perils of climate change, the world is gung-ho for "going green" again.
NASA's Steve Nerem declared at a press call on August 27 that, "Data shows the sea level is rising faster than it was 50 years ago, and it's very likely to get worse in the future."
Consequently, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) slated for December will, presumably, be mankind's last chance to "cut a deal to avoid 2 degrees Celsius of global warming," and keep us away from its "truly awful effects."
Additionally, a combative climate change manifesto, sponsored by Noam Chomsky and Desmond Tutu among others, has surfaced, and demands a "radical change in the global economy" to save the human civilization. …show more content…

It should, green lobbyists have been demagoguing for decades. Former NASA climatologist James Hansen made global warming a household name in 1988, and we all know Al Gore and his "inconvenient truth" on the impact of greenhouse gasses.
The 2005 Kyoto Protocol should have lidded this catastrophe in the making, but for one crucial caveat: India, China and America did not ratify the treaty. These countries happen to be the global leaders in carbon emission.
To understand why, let us begin with the way humans think. Extinction-level events wow us, snail-paced doom not so much. Therefore, any fallout from climate change that may occur at the turn of the century or beyond is too far off for anyone to care, at least past political photo-ops.
Then, we have the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s, which permanently tied economic growth to the acquisition and consumption of fossil-fuels. Therefore, while wars in the 1500s erupted over spices, most conflicts since the nineteenth century have reared over crude oil or gas.
The frontier hurdle before green lobbying is that almost half of the world's population, or 3 billion people, lives in poverty, and a significant chunk inhabits India and China. Reasonably, global warming is a low priority wherever the daily grind circles around three square

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