Lilly Small
POLI 2051
Hogan
April 19, 2021
Climate Change Related to Politics
According to the video from Vox titled, “How America Can Leave Fossil Fuels Behind”,
there is only a short period of time for the world to fix the climate. For the last 10,000 years the
average global temperature did not change by more than 1 degrees Clecius. But within the last 50
years, the rate rapidly spiked because of the burning of fossil fuels. If a large change does not
happen soon, the next generation will have a lot to worry about as the average global temperature
is predicted to “exceed 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century”. Carbon dioxide is the main
