| The success of the documentary cinema The | | | | carbon emissions under the country's Clean Air |
| Inconvenient Truth, starring former Vice President | | | | Act. |
| Al Gore, coupled with major weather related | | | | While the environment has already become a |
| disasters the world over in the last few years has | | | | major Presidential campaign agenda for elections |
| once again brought climate change and global | | | | '08, true leadership on global warming has so far |
| warming to the fore front. | | | | come most effectively form local authorities |
| While United States has long remained the world's | | | | across the United States. Almost two hundred |
| largest contributor of green house gases that lead | | | | cities have taken to the cause, designing and |
| to global warming, the Bush administration has yet | | | | implementing their own campaigns to slow down |
| to sign the internationally heralded Kyoto Protocol. | | | | the effects of global warming as much as |
| In fact, it has been caught in some blatant | | | | possible. California's governor Arnold |
| controversies trying to disprove a body of | | | | Schwarzenegger and New York City's mayor |
| scientific evidence regarding the matter. | | | | Michael Bloomberg have both take the lead and |
| Many politicians and journalist have concluded that | | | | made fighting global warming a primary objective |
| this has happened not because they don't believe | | | | during their time in office. |
| climate change is taking place, but rather because | | | | While California plans to plant over 11 million trees |
| of the powerful lobbying groups mainly from the | | | | in its urban space within the next two decades, |
| auto and oil industry that supports them. Cars and | | | | New York recently hosted one of the world's |
| fossil fuel use, along with coal based electricity, | | | | largest summits of the mayors with a focus on |
| remains someof the biggest source of carbon | | | | cities and local authorities taking the lead for this |
| emission the world over. | | | | cause. Trees are natural air purifiers, and today |
| With recent hubbub about global warming, and | | | | there is a serious public effort across towns and |
| polls showing immense public concern over the | | | | cities to build greener space. |
| issue, President Bush has spoken publicly many | | | | There has also been a massive grassroots |
| times about slowing down the effects of global | | | | campaign to fight global warming from religious |
| warming, mainly by using technology to cut | | | | groups as well as celebrities. And saving the world |
| carbon emissions. | | | | itself has become a financially sound decision for |
| In his State of the Union address last year, he | | | | investors the world over. Wall Street, too, has |
| explicitly endorsed the Hybrid car technology, one | | | | taken to the cause, and Goldman Sachs has |
| that would run not just on gas but also electricity. | | | | already invested billions in clean energy. |
| After the Democratic Party won control of the | | | | The people of America seem to be increasingly |
| House and the Senate, the U.S Government has | | | | geared up to take responsibility for their part in |
| also steadily endorsed many pro-environment | | | | causing global warming, which will affect countries |
| causes such as the development of alternative | | | | that were not major contributors of the |
| energy such as bio fuels for automobiles, and is | | | | greenhouse gases the most. And it's forcing |
| actively drafting bills that will require Detroit to | | | | leaders in the Republican and Democratic Party, as |
| produce cars that give better mileage. This April, | | | | well as the business and scientific community and |
| the Supreme Court voted 5-4, giving the federal | | | | religious groups to do what it takes to neutralize |
| government the authority to regulate vehicle' | | | | the global warming effect. |