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The existence and consequences of global warming have been a topic of debate for several decades now. The overall increase in the Earth's surface temperature has been linked to dramatic regional climate changes and an increase in natural disasters around the world. Naturally, in the long term global warming is detrimental to ecosystems and has far-reaching impacts on available resources and thus our standard of living. Unfortunately, this problem cannot be addressed without managing the complicated moral and economic stipulations of possible changes. Policy makers should consider how their actions contribute to the causes of global warming, identify all economic loss or gain, and consider the moral implications of policies that would benefit or harm the environment. That's a really good thesis! Policy makers need to account for the effects of their plans in advance so that they are more aware of the ways in which they might be harming the environment. Increasing awareness will lead to new ideas for reducing everyone's carbon footprint by calling attention to the minute patterns whose direct effects culminate to form destructive trends. The Kyoto Protocol, one of the most prominent efforts to impede global warming in the recent past, includes "34 industrialized nations legally bound to cut emissions" (Fonda). Digital accounting of all known factors contributing to global warming (such as air pollution and the combustion of fossil fuels, deforestation, etc) would facilitate the decrease of emissions by allowing faster, standardized, and more thorough communication within the industries and to the government by forcing people to take personal responsibility for sources of CO2 emissions. Also consider that the treaty is rendered largely ineffective by lack of participation by the US, China, and Australia who together produce more than "one-fourth of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions" (Kyoto). These highly-industrialized nations should nonetheless fulfill the responsibility of internal management to keep track of emissions. Ideally, documenting the processes that promote global warming will force society to be held accountable for increasing the rate of global warming and in turn stimulate ideas to fight climate change without dangerous economic decline. It seems that environmentalism and economic pragmatism are two opposing interests that have stagnated progress in reducing the impact of global warming. As a global society, we may "choose to live with some specks of grease," or "dilute" the issue to a feasible point (Lomborg). This is really well written so far and your supports make a lot of sense. Keep up the good work :)