Our Impending Issues

Aiden Cunningham
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
20 January 2022

Our Impending Issues

    Many of the issues ranged in various categories, from climate-based issues like carbon in the 

atmosphere and the need for a cleaner, more natural environment, to society-based issues like distrust 

in the government and the growing amount of trash in the ocean. I think that if issues like these 

continue without being solved, it may result in a forced change in our ways, most of which we will not 

like. Starting off by addressing the more climate and natural-based issues, where we as a society are 

making changes to the earth and its processes, I think that the many movements to help get this 

problem under control are and have the potential to make a huge impact on the current climate trend, 

but even with all the passion and drive of the ones who are fighting, there are still too many of us that 

just don’t care or don’t want to think about it that the changes that a few are making most likely won't 

be enough to counter the rest of the world, and the only way we can begin to slow, stop, or reverse the 

impact of our society on the climate is if everyone tries to pitch in a little. As for the issue of unrest, 

politically and from the lack of a clean and conducive-to-happiness enviorment, the changes are going 

to need to be made by us. Because the level of activism against this imminent problem is much lower 

then for climate-based problems, we need to start working fast. As my article said, if we allow things 

to continue along like they are, there is a very high possibility that the decreasing quality in living 

conditions and the lack of trust in the government and businesses will cause revolt, an occurrence that 

might cause an impact large enough to bring about the change needed to fix the climate-based 

problems, but will take more years then we have to sort itself out. Overall, I think that we need to work 

on becoming more unified and able to work together so that we can actually make a change as a 

whole in interest of a better future that doesn’t end in the destruction of the climate and our planet.

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