The Greatest Challenge of Our Generation

I feel that the greatest challenge that my generation is faced with is being stuck in a time of environmental instability. Recently, we have been confronted with the crisis of global warming. In past generations, they have known the risks and effects of all the factories, and the car emissions, but they saw no immediate problem that they were confronted with. So they did not make many changes in their daily habits. Most recently, Al Gore had created the presentation, “An Inconvenient Truth”, to raise awareness about global warming, how far we are into it, and what we can do about. It is sad to find out how deadly and serious the effects of it are, and how the older generation left us to deal with this problem. The challenge in this is how to create effective steps to stopping this global crisis in its steps.

This problem is nothing that can be confronted with an environmental organization, however an organization to that degree can raise serious awareness about this problem. My ideas coincide with most others. I believe that the first steps to helping with this problem, are those that have already been talked about. Raising awareness is the first step to helping this. With more people knowing about this issue, believing in it, and having a motivation to do something about it, will bring more ideas for solutions and begin a global warming awareness revolution. Like a domino effect, many others with follow these ideas, and change their daily routines to aid in stopping global warming.

In these daily routines, one can be more efficient with electricity use, and own more efficient cars, and be more efficient with car use. The key word in this solution is efficient. Many do not realize how their daily activities can put a toll on our atmosphere. Many do