Michael Grunwald’s article, Endgame showed the true difficulties that lie behind politics and the process of getting things done to improve our society. When the Bush-Gore election was taking place I was in the fourth grade and unaware that any of these environmental issues were taking place. Back then I always considered the everglades to be a scary place because there were alligators there. When Gore lost the election and came out with his video An Inconvenient Truth I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever and thought he was only trying to get his second chance in the spot light, but this article has made me rethink everything he has tried to do for the environment. If we would have elected Gore as president we may not be in the current environmental trouble we are facing today with global climate change and the depletion of oil. As the article mentioned “Every politician had to strike a balance between nature and people,” this quote is very true in many ways. If Gore had been elected the citizens of the United States would not have been ready to change the way they go about their lives. The idea of global climate change would have been to new to them and they would not have seen or believed the effects it has on the world as it does today. “The twentieth century had been an era of mess-making; the twenty-first century could be a time to clean up the messes,” another good quote from this article which has yet to take place in time. We are at a very slow start to healing this earth and the Everglades are an example. We depleted most of its water in the early twentieth century to provide areas for residential living and now we see that this was not a good idea. We need to continue to revive the Everglades so that we can protect its wildlife and the beauty that it entails.
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