America should take lead in climate efforts
Is all this talk about global warming really true? Is Earth’s temperature likely to jump nearly six degrees between now and the end of the century even if every country cuts greenhouse gases emissions as proposed?
Carbon dioxide, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, is the main cause of global warming, trapping the sun’s energy in the atmosphere.
Much of the projected rise in temperature is because of developing nations, which aren’t talking much about cutting their emissions.
And what about those projections for regular long-term droughts in the Southwest Unites States?
Are these projections correct? Are these doom and gloom guys on the right track? I don’t know.
But the scientific community seems to agree at least somewhat. Are these heat spells tied in with global warming? Maybe, maybe not, but let’s stay on the safe side and try to control this problem.
We’re known as the “can do” country. Let’s prove it.
WESLEY GREENE
Burbank
Students hardly fazed on drug-use dangers
As a relatively new high school graduate, I don’t think the schools are doing enough to help teens who are falling to drug use. It seems as though the ones struggling from the drug problems are always the ones left behind.
I remember attending these assemblies all four years of my high school career, and not one presentation that the school gave ever scared any one of us to refrain from drugs or alcohol.
It was always the same people on the stage talking about the same stories they said last year.
Young adults aren’t afraid to try anything new. Trying to instill fear in their minds to stop them from doing drugs is not the answer because clearly it doesn’t work. It’s not an embarrassing thing to stay in jail one night anymore for drug possession; instead kids use it as a bragging right. Schools should take more responsibility for their students. They should push the teachers and faculty to have more of a relationship with their students and to encourage them to stay on the right path.
Maybe have a meeting with their parents every three to four months. Or better yet, have a lunch meeting with their students every so often, just to see what their students may be experiencing. Maybe there is a story a teacher can share with a student to stop the student from thinking twice about drugs or alcohol.
