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Persuasive Essay On Climate Change

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Many people see the flaws in our current world and how it is hurting us. However, people do not like change and think it is impossible for us to change.“But for those of us born and raised inside this system, though we may sell see the dead-end flaw of its central logic, it can remain intensely difficult to see a way out." (Klein, pg 178) Klein explains to us that all we have to do is change. Although, most of us realize there needs to be change, we do not actually put any of it into action. In order to fight climate change we must start putting our thoughts into actions and stop being afraid of change. As a new generation forms, we have a chance to change our individual attitudes. However, most of us have be taught in school or home what to think. We have influences on us that form our minds and cause us to believe what we do. Space is opening up for a growing influence of Indigenous thought on new generations of activists … [so that] progressive movements are being exposed to worldviews based on relationships of reciprocity and interconnection with the natural world that are the antithesis of extractivism." (Klein, pg 182) Every person on this earth has their own opinion on how to fight climate change. In our generation many people realize that a change needs to be made. In order to fight climate change we need to continue teaching the mindset of change instead of staying in our current circumstances. Klein is hopeful that if our generation starts changing it will help impact fighting climate change. Klein also focuses on how important social movements are in fighting climate change. "A different kind of climate movement [not led by Big Green] would have tried to challenge the extreme ideology that was blocking so much sensible action, joining with other sectors to show how unfettered corporate power posed a grave threat to the habitability of the planet." (Klein, pg 20) Klein explains how social movements are starting to form. Groups are helping us fight climate change by transforming their daily lives. These groups are challenging our worlds day to day ideology hoping to have some impact on it. These groups have been formed in hopes of getting the attention of the world hoping they will realize how

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