Oil: good or bad - free post

There are two sides to the use of oil. The good being that oil fuels our cars, heats our homes, and runs our economy. Everything we do, everything we see has some connection to oil and fossil fuels. A form of oil is found in many different types of plastics, the same type of plastic used to bottle water and the many different drinks on stock in the supermarkets. My aunt called this generation the plastic generation. We use plastic for everything from plastic bags and package wrapping to earrings and hair clips. On the bigger level, our country uses billions of oil a year. If oil were to disappear from the face of the earth right now, our economy would crash.

The bad side to oil is much greater. Because fossil fuels release so much green house gasses, our world is experiencing what is called global climate change. Alaska, as far as I know, has been impacted the greatest. Since the people or rural Alaska depend on subsistence, they feel that times are changing. The migratory animals they depend on come at different times, sea ice is receding in the winter months, more permafrost melts in the summer, and coastal villages are in danger of land erosion. Can anything be done to stop what is happening, or is it too late for us to slow down the effects of global climate change? Is there global climate change, or better yet, is global warming the real deal? Can we call what is happening global warming? And, if global warming does exist, was it the result of mankind?