http://www.newpolity.com/2010/10/21/why-we-need-to-protect-our-environment/

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Summary:

You have two homes, you have your primary residence, such as your apartment or house and you have the earth.  Without clean air, water or land it would be difficult to survive.  Without a healthy planet, there would be no life here.  In the United States, the environment has become a political issue.  Republicans oppose the idea that humans are responsible for the pollution that causes global warming, they don't think it exists.  Democrats, on the other hand has recognize that pollution is a major cause of global warming, they have sided with the scientists who has studied the evidence. 

If you agreed with the Republican party, step outside while you are in the city.  Take a deep breath, don't the garbage smell good, or the exhaust fumes from the automobiles smell wonderful.  Now, take a trip to the country, take a breath, do you smell the garbage, how about the exhaust fumes from the automobiles? 

Evaluation:

I live in the country, when I go to the city I feel the difference in air temperature.  I can be chilly at my house and need a sweater to stay warm, but by the time I get to the city , I don't need it.  The sweater comes off, and it goes back on the closer I get to home.  I can smell the exhaust from the automobiles and trucks that go up and down the road in the cities, but at home it smells better, cleaner, and fresher.
We don't have the amount of traffic that the city does.

Washington is in denied, I use to live there.  It is a dirty city, with tons and traffic.  The suburbs are cleaner to look at, but it don't smell that much better.  Our representatives should listen to the scientists who has study the environment and the effect that human activity has had on it, before it is too late.