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Dear Extinction Rebellion Protesters
Dear Extinction Rebellion Protesters

Author: Jo-anne Reay-Harrower

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Is climate change real? A personal look.

This article is based on my own opinions along with some facts. Let me start with the protests going on in Perth at the moment and perhaps the world that wants zero carbon dioxide emissions.

How do these emissions affect the earth? Well according to brianly.com “The increase in carbon dioxide emissions affect the earth's natural cycle of temperature change by increasing the average temperature of the Earth. CO2, together with other greenhouse gases are important in maintaining the Earth's overall temperature. They absorb energy then re-emit this energy. However, too much of these gases would make the temperature of the Earth like Venus since more energy are being emitted. And without these gases, the Earth would have a very low temperature. Specifically, for carbon dioxide, it maintains the amount of water vapor present in the atmosphere. Consequently, the range of the greenhouse effect to the Earth.”

If I go by this information then yes too much is not good for us how-ever not enough carbon dioxide is just as bad for this planet’s survival.

We are the makers of our own survival and we allowed ourselves to get in this situation. However, there is always hope. Yes, I am sure that industry can lower emissions how-ever I do not put all the blame on them. How many of us like to sit at home without air-conditioners on in summer or heaters in winter. How many destroy our atmosphere by knocking down trees just so that you can have a home and backyard. Once upon a time if you brought land and wanted a house on it you were only to knock down the area where your house would be built but now they destroy every tree in the suburb that they want to establish. Trees help us to live they breath in our carbon dioxide and give us the vital oxygen we need to sustain life, but destroying trees they can not help us get rid of the carbons we emit. Yes, we need to lower them but at the same time, how many of these protestors would like to go back the way things were before the industrial revolution. Do they really think things would be different, there would still be more people living on this planet and there would still be fires lit to keep us warm and let us not even go into the sanitary conditions?

So yes let industry take some of the blame but let’s not forget who wanted textile, coal, petrol ( oh yea let’s go back to walking no more cars, How many of these protestors own at leat car putting out their own carbon emissions).

I am not a “greenie” I like my car but I also like my trees, my bush (which is becoming fewer and fewer due to more people and more cars which need roads to run on).

We need to get things on an even keel and all of us realise that everything we do and every move we make leaves a carbon impression on this planet even in death when we decompose we still leave carbon footprints.

So no we can’t have zero carbon emission EVER unless we all stop breathing then and only then would this planet we call home have a chance of surviving. So to all the protestors be careful very careful of what you wish for ZERO CARBON = DEATH.

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