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Global Warming is causing issues

Have you ever dreamt of visiting With these animals, and many others, in use, using public transportation, or single-use plastic, this can be easily done by Antarctica, seeing its beauty in person? affected by climate change, you might bepurchasing a more fuel-efficient vehicle. using reusable bags when shopping, bringWatching penguins play and polar bear gin to think all hope is Another huge way to cut back ing a reusable water bottle instead of using cubs snuggle up to their mothers on large lost. Although on fossil fuels is by usplastic ones, and choosing to thrift instead icebergs? Or have you ever wanted to see time is runing renewof buying new clothes. This helps as 8% of sea turtles swim through the ocean? Well, ning out able energy oil consumption is used for shipping plasthose dreams might never become a reality if many sources. tics. Authors of the CIEL report said, “2.5 unless the entire world stands up and takes p e o p l e O n e to 13.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxnotice of the sixth extinction, otherwise c h a n g e d major way to ide equivalent are emitted per year while known as global warming. their lifeconserve our extracting and transporting natural gas to

Due to the rise in temperature, male styles to planet is by create feedstocks for plastics in the United sea turtle eggs are unable to hatch creating p r o t e c t lowering or States.” an uneven ratio in gender. SeeTurtles, a ourselves eliminating We should protect our mother earth website previously dedicated to trips visitand future meat and and plant trees, they take in carbon dioxide ing turtles has more recently been looking generations we dairy conduring photosynthesis. If everyone worked to save them. They released an article saycould save our sumption. Or hard enough we could reverse the effects of ing, “A recent study in Australia found that planet. even cutting it climate change using trees. 99% of the green sea turtles around Raine The main cause out of your diet Although global warming and its efIsland were female.” of global warming is entirely. Animal fects are scary, we must take action and

The Earth growing warmer has also greenhouse gases, agriculture makes up help restore our planet to its original been horrible on polar bears. They once which are gases that 18% of greenhouse beauty. Making small changes in your life thrived in their native habitat, the arctic livtrap heat on the earth. gas emissions globally. can help tremendously over time. I think ing on ice caps. Now, these once majestic Fossil fuels are fuels Anyone can lessen their we can help save our planet before it is too animals are slowly starving as their homes we use in our everyday lives animal product consumption late so dreams of meeting beautiful wildlife and hunting grounds have melted away. that are destroying our planet. They creeasily by implementing a “meatless and seeing natural resources can become a

According to SeeTurtles, “Scientists ate a whopping 64% of the earth’s greenMonday.” Another way is by opting for reality. predict that it (Global Warming) could rehouse gas emissions. Although tricky we dairy-free milk in your coffee or trying a -Ella Lockshin sult in 20-30% of the Earth’s plant and animust cut down on our fossil fuel use. You vegan restaurant. GRAPHIC BY ELLA LOCKSHIN mal species going extinct by 2050.” can do this by turning off lights when not The final way is to cut down on using AND REEGAN MINOR

Is Selective Service still needed?

Recently, escalated tensions between armed forces who are just as capable as we must ask ourselves, when would we ever the draft to include women, we should be Iran and the United States due to the asmen. Rather, it is because no one should need to involuntarily compel people to questioning whether we need the draft in sassination of Iranian general Qasim Sobe required to register with the Selective join? the first place. leimani have ushered in flurried whispers Service. Supporters of the SSS will often cite Proponents of the Selective Service of a potential war between the two nations. Our modern Selective Service System the possibility of a future large-scale war often claim that there is an extremely

Hitching a ride on these talks of war (SSS) was created in response to the Vietthat requires more troops than our current small chance that the draft would ever has been an ongoing discussion about a nam War. It was then decommissioned, military can provide. This argument operbe used, rendering the move to include possible draft. This increased discussion but President Jimmy Carter reactivated the ates under the notion that most of our fightwomen largely a symbolic one. If the draft has brought to light the fact that today SSS in 1980, and mandated that all males ing will be done by boots-on-the-ground will never be used, why do we continue to in America, no females are mandated to ages 18 to 26 register. Future amendments infantry. allow it to exist? Additionally, we need to register for the draft, while all males are. would require registration with the SSS in In reality, as we can see from our curquestion whether this truly is an achieveMany people have questioned whether this order to be eligible for federal jobs or fedrent fighting in nations like Syria, Iraq, ment towards gender equality. The fact policy is fair, or if it is exclusionary and eral student loans. Failure to register is a and Afghanistan, a majority of our fightthat millions of young women would now sexist. In my opinion, women should not federal crime. ing is done by unmanned drones, fighter be equal to men in terms of government be required to register with the Selective The American military is one of the pilots, and small (but elite) special operacontrol over their future does not make Service (i.e. the draft.) largest in the world. According to the Detions groups. Rather than needing more me feel more equal to the opposite sex.

This is not because I hold some anpartment of Defense, there are over 1.3 manpower, our military will require more The fact that both sexes would have the tiquated view that women are ineffective million active duty service members, and expertise in niche specialties. The draft will same chance of involuntarily dying in a fufighters or inferior physically. There are over 800,000 in reserves. With so many be unable to satisfy these needs. ture war is not equality---it is immorality. millions of brave women serving in our people voluntarily enlisting in the military, Thus, rather than attempting to expand -Daniel Klein