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Listen to the people, not the polluters!
There are communities around the world facing climate changing challenges. The possibility that it has come to a time where the world that we call home needs help from all of the major contributors and every breathing able person to change the climate globally. The people of the world have been too hard on our hard on the world! Now there is an opportunity to do something about it and a global climate agreement is a start for all the countries. The agreement ensures that action is being taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and financial and technical support is delivered to poor countries ("Durban Climate Talks: Last Change For The Us", 2011). With countries such as South Africa who are the continents highest CO2 emitter must show leadership to help reach meaningful outcome for the agreement. There is proof that the climate will not stay stable if we do not do something about it. There needs to be full participation and significant commitment to change.
The US is one of the major emitters and must take part in the global agreement but the does not show any signs acceptance or participation of the agreement. This should be a big enough issue for all countries to have the need to be involved, to be on board, and supportive of its cause. The US has decided to be a part of the fight to stabilize the climate or other governments such as India and China will have to move on without them ("Durban Climate Talks: Last Change For The Us", 2011). Bargaining with the fate of our climate doesn’t seem to be a viable option for helping it. There are companies and corporations that have a huge pull in the involvement with governments to helping the climate and these companies are more times the major offenders of the pollution. Governments need to stop listening to the polluter and words of money and start listening to the people. This becomes a moral issue when dealing with these types of choices. To have to...