This article from national geographic was about how in Northern China the life expectancy has decreased by 5.5 years since last year. This is due to the coal emissions in that area. This really opened my eyes to how much we as humans are effecting the environment we live in. The everyday life that we live destroys so much of the world that we live in but no one does much to change things. Americans in particular are bad about this. We drive the biggest cars we can find and have minimal to no long distance public transportation, forcing everyone to drive everywhere they want to go. This creates more and more toxic emissions that are melting our polar ice caps, which in turn are raising sea levels. This creates a large problem for myself since I live in Florida, the state that has the majority of its land only a few feet above sea level. Personally, I can't do much about this at the moment, but one thing that I will do in the future is buy a more gas efficient car to hopefully make my own environmental footprint smaller.
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