Climate change is a topic that creates a lot of controversial arguments, one of which being if climate change is actually real. Climate change is in fact real and Juliet Schor discusses the damage of the fossil fuel industries in the movie “Do the Math.” Schor explains how we are still releasing carbon at an infinitely exponential rate when we need to be reducing them. She says “You can’t keep increasing your economy infinitely on a finite planet” (2). There is only so much money and fossil fuel available and once it’s gone we can’t necessarily get it back. Additionally, if we continuously invest in fossil fuel companies, that money goes to complete waste when we run out. Bill McKibben also discusses how fossil fuel industries don’t pay for the carbon emissions they produce (5). To put it simply, they don’t pay for their waste. In my town the trash company requires a specific trash bag in order the use the service. Fossil fuel industries aren’t paying for the fumes coming out of their smokestacks. These carbon emissions are contributing greatly to climate change and how extreme it is becoming. As Schor and McKibben insinuate, carbon is directly related to climate change, that relation being negative. If we don’t find a solution to this problem the consequences could be catastrophic.
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