The View on the Environment - LG

Deforestation It is lead to believe that deforestation is the second worst thing that is causing climate change according to the United Nations. A forest in Sumatra, Indonesia is getting cleared up to make more room for palm oil plantation. Everyone in this world relies on the forests with around 1.25 billion residents whether it's for food, water, or shelter. It's expected that the forests provide everyone in the United States with goods and services, costing up to $75-100 billion per year. With all the forest fires happening, it is killing so many forests making it harder to provide the goods that we all need. The forests also produces humans with stuff like lumber so that way furniture, and paper products are created. With deforestation, it removes vegetation that is left over, and removes carbon dioxide that is polluted into the air. Deforestation is mainly to get rid of a bunch of trees, leaving extra space left over for expansion, along with getting rid of ca...

What's going on in New England? Currently, Massachusetts is coming up with a plan to raise their gas prices so that way it will produce less carbon emissions into the air, after 11 other states doing so. They are in hopes that New Hampshire and Vermont will do the same. Usually, if a driver sees that the gas prices at one gas station are too high, they will drive somewhere else to find prices that are lower. With raising the gas prices, people would be less apt to spend as much at the gas station and drive around as much. Massachusetts' plan is to raise the prices on gas so it can benefit the environment, and the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority). If the gas prices were raised, people would be spending a certain portion of that money towards the gas they are fueling their car with, and some of it would go towards the MBTA to help benefit public transportation. For instance, Tesla cars were created to be electric, because they are trying to decrease the a...