Newspapers and magazines have been subtly trying to warm the world about our own self-destruction for a while. Every so often an article will appear about the Greenhouse effect, or air pollution. But we simply put it to the back of our minds because those factories that pollute the air are making us nice cars and make-up. It’s worth a little ozone to feel acceptable in society, isn’t it?

Yet time is running out. There is already a gap in the atmosphere over Antarctica. But Antarctica isn’t here, we say. There’s no hole in the ozone here. Whether we like it or not, without major help. Earth is slowly spinning down a dark path of destruction and we’re pushing her along.

People say that it’s simply a warming trend. A fluke of weather. Scientists will figure it out; it’s not the real world’s worries. But can a few scientists stop huge companies in dumping trash into rivers? Can they stop littering? Or oil spills? No, it’s going to take everyone’s combined effort to help pull us out of the deep end. But how long do we have?

Whenever I see myself holding a bottle of hairspray in the minor, my mind shows; me a picture of the meager Maine ‘winter we’ve had so far. Of a green Christmas, and hardly any sledding. Was it always like this? No, probably not. Even though it’s just a little more, when I spray that hairspray it’s polluting the earth. We are al guilty.

When reading an article in National Geographic, I was horrified at a caption to the right of a picture. “By the time you read this article, a space of 200 football fields worth of trees will have been cut down.” Even though the Amazon rainforest provides almost half The earth’s oxygen we are still cutting it down for housing developments. Plants and trees take away CO2 from the air and release; oxygen, so why are we destroying what keeps us alive? Housing developments.

Automobile pollution is a big factor in the Greenhouse effect. The emissions from cars harm humans, animals, and the atmosphere. yeti t seems that the world cannot bike or walk to where they need to go. Millions of cars roll off the assembly lines every day, and we just keep buying. The usage of hybrid cars are helpful, but using the vegetable oil powered ones would be even better. But many people don’t want the whole process to go through just for a little clean air.

How can we prove our faults? Ever since the Industrial Revolution, when we replaced only a few polluting trains for thousands of polluting cars, the global temperature has gone up. When we designed hundreds of factories to produce these cars, and all sorts of other items, then more smog and smoke has been pushed into the atmosphere. Are you beginning to see how our story will end? As time goes on, we have more things to make, and less time to fix our problems.

Try to conserve, try to learn, try to stop it. Any way. Any place. Any time soon.