In the United States Obama claims that as a country “we need to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy” (Tbach). Unfortunately, the United States Congress is not convinced that change is needed. According to Herszenhorn,
The United States Congress has approved two measures aimed at undercutting Obama and his efforts [and] that Congressions Republicans have taken numerous steps to draw distinctions between Obama and their views on Environmental Protections. …show more content…
We are currently at the end of an ice age and and that the globe will continue to warm over the next century due to the conclusion of the ice age. They claim that what is taking place is not human inflicted climate change, but is instead caused by the end of the ice age. Although this is true, it has been proven that since industrialization and the implementation of coal as an energy source, the rate in which the glaciers are melting has increased, and the average rate of global temperature has increased drastically. They also argue that if we were to eliminate the use of coal as an energy source, the number of jobs available would drastically decrease, but this is without the consideration of job creation. With the addition of new resources, it would require skilled workers to power the machinery and power plants. It would create more jobs due to the increased number of materials needed to power towns and societies than coal power systems do, while also lowering the global atmospheric temperature as well as the pounds of carbon dioxide released into the