Hum/111 Week 1 Assignment

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Part 1: Doomsday
Global warming is real, and, on this track, is bound to kill us. With average temperatures rising over the past years, many plants and animals will die, killing off any sustenance for us. Fortunately, with the correct care, we still may be able to, deter the burning, flooding, and killing of the earth. You may be informed, but you are definitely not alarmed enough.

Often believed to be a hoax, global warming has done nothing but rise over the past few decades. Because of global warming, forest fires have been popping up randomly across the nation. This happens because of heat, which will often spark up dry brush, followed by a forest fire, and massive devastation. On another note, because of global warming, ocean levels are
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The fraction of carbon dioxide that we breathe is growing: It just crossed 400 parts per million, and high-end estimates concluding from current trends suggest it will hit 1,000 ppm by the year 2100. At that concentration, compared to the air we breathe now, human cognitive ability reduces by 21 percent.
Other things in the hotter air are even scarier, with small increases in pollution capable of shortening people’s lives by eleven years. By 2090, as many as 2 billion people will be breathing air higher than the WHO “safe” level (WHO 8); one paper last month showed that a pregnant mother’s exposure to ozone raises the child’s risk of autism, which does make you think again about the autism epidemic in West Hollywood.

Very soon, there will be a volcanic eruption in Hawaii, causing massive devastation, not only on houses and communities but on the atmosphere. Volcanic gases, such as sulfur and C02 cause fluctuations in the atmosphere and can stay up in the atmosphere for years. The interesting thing is, is humans still emit more CO2 with human activities than all volcanic explosions, and after a volcanic explosion, the air is completely unbreathable. Just imagine the downfall from

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