It's a simple fact that the destruction of the environment is likely the most pressing and important issue that the world is facing today. Like every world superpower before us, American will not remain the most powerful nation in the world forever; eventually, politics will shift and the American dominance over the world will be nothing more than a section in history books. Subsequently, as Americans, we should focus on encouraging economic growth, and creating jobs, but protecting the environment has an importance above all of that. If we pillage and plunder the environment, leaving nothing but polluted water and smoggy skies, it won't matter how strong our economy was or how many buildings we built or how high our GDP was because the very thing that gave us prosperity will be shriveled up and dead; we will be remembered as the nation that destroyed the earth, and not for the incredible contributions that we have made to humanity. 100 years after our country subsides into insignificance, the only thing remaining will be the impact we left on the physical earth- either good or bad.
The life we are currently living is not at all sustainable. Someday, our oils wells will dry up, our clean water will run out, and the vegetation of the earth that we rely on to keep out air clean will not be able to stay alive. It is up to us to reverse the negative effects of environmental destruction, and to hold people accountable for the damage that they do to the earth.
Great job Nick. I really like how you constructed your claim and had a call to action in your blog. I completely agree with your point that soon enough, given we don't change any of our views, we might have nothing to make our material goods from - in a sense, just kill off the earth.
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