Although scientists have came along with many ideas to reduce our carbon-footprint, we can't realistically make a difference in fixing the issue of global warming because it would be simply too difficult to change the comfortable lifestyle we all seem to live by. On another note, no matter how much we try to change our ways, it is just simply too late. With every solution we come up with to solve global warming and to somehow restore our once green planet, there seems to be consequences with every move we make.
In the film, "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore, he showed physical proof of how our world has changed dramatically over a course of time. Beautiful glaciers now melting drastically, soon to be completely gone, causing a change of climate all around the world. Al Gore not only uses pictures and videos to prove how threatening our climate change are, but he also provides years of data of measured CO2. He states, "The point of this is it [CO2] just keeps going up-it's relentless." Additionally, the warming and the melting are occurring much faster than the data predicted. Due to the high level of CO2 trapped in our atmosphere, according to Michael Pollan, in his article "Why bother", "the shift from white ice to blue water in the Arctic is absorbing more sunlight and warming soils everywhere, becoming biologically active causing them to release their vast stores of Carbon into the air." It is shocking how our climate change crisis is at the very bottom of our "fix it" list. Not only does it affect our lives, but also it affects nature's habitat! Polar bears are now drowning due to the horrific increase of seawater because of ice melting so quickly. Our consequences causes issues to everything around us, not just ourselves. .
However, there are some people who believe that solutions exist, such as "Think Globally, Act Locally".