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Miles, I really enjoyed your post. I think it’s interesting how you brought the concepts of social media’s influence and news influence together. I agree with you that the news can have a mental impact on the public whether directly influenced or not. It’s crazy how something made to prevent stress by keeping people in-the-loop has done the opposite.

This was a very interesting piece to read. I thought that you structured this writing in a very strategic manner, and the information you used seemed to be very reliable and persuasive. I really like how towards the end you made that the point that “strong economy and the push for clean energy go hand and hand.” I agree with this statement because jobs in the fossil fuel industry will be replaced with jobs in the green energy industry, as well as creating millions of additional jobs.

It is great to see other teens watching out for the environment. I agree that clean energy does not have to come at as a cost of economy.

Miles, that was interesting to read. I liked how you were able to break down the events of Trump pulling America out the Paris Agreement and what his plans were going forward in terms of the environment. Because of what you said about what our government is doing with the environment, I think it would be interesting to see organizations are doing in terms of climate change. This article from NASA could be helpful in with finding information about this: https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/history/. This is a good post and I look forward to seeing what you may write about what is being done about climate change outside of our government.

I agree with everything you are saying and I would like to add that corporations produce just about everything we buy, use, and throw away and play an outsized role in driving global climate change. A recently published report identified that 100 energy companies have been responsible for 71% of all industrial emissions since human-driven climate change was officially recognized.

I think that this post is very interesting and scary. Climate change is growing very fast and this is scary for the future of our environment. The fact that all ice on earth is going to melt by the year 2100, is a very sad fact. I know you mentioned that fossil fuels need to phase off, but can you think of any other ways to save our environment and stop climate change? Here is an ad for 100 ways to end climate change that might help. https://landing.pachamama.org/climate-change-solutions-course?utm_term=climate%20change%20solutions&utm_campaign=Drawdown+Online+Course&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_tgt=kwd-294757895902&hsa_grp=81537677881&hsa_src=g&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_mt=b&hsa_ver=3&hsa_ad=381292798683&hsa_acc=3809916187&hsa_kw=climate%20change%20solutions&hsa_cam=6486018216&gclid=CjwKCAjwlID8BRAFEiwAnUoK1VIUggnC9gjbFDjhHt_nrNxgogHh4Bj481EsJxql4sLxPdsFdOm2hxoCiKsQAvD_BwE

I think this post is interested and scary because the climate has changed the others days it was good and now the sky looks ugly with so much smoke.

I agree with your argument completely. Everything you said was true and terrifying. Our climate is changing and heating up at an alarmingly rapid pace. I think what you said about how it’s not only damaging our climate but how it is so damaging to our health was an important statement. A surprising amount of people on this planet simply don’t care about it and how we are running it because it will not likely affect them in their lifetime. Do you think that if more people knew how bad it is for us they would care more and do more things to help our world?

I agree with your argument Miles. I think you started your argument very strongly using numbers and facts. As we learned in class this is the use of pathos and even logos appealing to emotions and using numbers and facts. I think a big key part your article is missing is citing the source and providing links in the text to make it easier for you and the reader. But other than that I think you presented a good argument on how the world should see climate change more.