After blow drying and stiffening their hair with hair spray, Americans jump into their sports utility vehicles and head off to work with their air conditioner blasting, looking forward to sitting in an air-conditioned office all day. This is just a small part of American’s unthinking lifestyle that impacts our environment minute-by-minute everyday. The lifestyle of most Americans is detrimental to our environment. Americans use and abuse what the earth has to give, taking its natural resources and leaving in their place pollution. Just a few examples of how Americans contribute to distroying the environment include the greenhouse effect, over consumption of natural resources, and pollution of the water and air.
Until the majority of Americans decide to change the way that they live day-to-day, the environment will become progressively worse. There have been a number of attempts to better the environment such as public transportation and car pool lanes but this is only drop in the bucket. Until Americans begin to utilize these opportunities, make conscientious efforts to become more educated about the impact of their actions, and willingly give up or develop alternatives for their harmful luxuries, things will only get worse.
In The Press Democrats Sunday edition of 11-12-00, there was an article about how President Clinton was calling for a new federal regulation, limiting power plants’ emissions of carbon dioxide. A fact that caught my eye in this article was that the United States is by
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