Global Warming

The question is what can we really do to avoid this? There is still no answer, and that leaves us with the concern of global warming. A critic, Ronald Bailey, believes that this environmental crisis is no crisis at all. He is one of many that assure the common people that the environmental issues that we have are blown out of proportion by overanxious environmentalists. For example, it was a prediction that pollution would be extremely disastrous as industry and population increased. Also, "In 1969, Paul Ehrlich outlined a future "eco-catastrophe" in which he prophesied that 200,000 people would die in 1973 in "smog disasters" in New York and Los Angeles" (324). As Bailey researched, the population has risen and the economy has grown immensely. Pollutants have dramatically declined, instead of the prediction of increasing. Nearly all of America's lakes, rivers, and estuaries are swim able and fishable. Unlike the prediction of the doomsters, economic growth leads to less pollution. As for the false doomsday prediction of global warming, eco-doomsters predicted that the earth's average temperature was to increase over the next century due to the "greenhouse effect." As for Bailey's research, "The earth's average temperature has apparently increased by less than a degree (0.9) Fahrenheit in the last century" (328). .
             Comparing both essays, McKibben and Bailey agree that pollution has decreased. Bailey did not mention a single scenario dealing with CO2. This is the issue that is being stressed upon in dealing with global warming and Bailey failed to mention it. The CO2 .
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             that is present in today's world is what is harming everyone. Bailey did have some good points in which there were false predictions, but yet none of the predictions contained scenarios with the dangerous CO2. Unlike Bailey, McKibben went into the specifics of CO2 and what it does to harm this place we live in.