Improving Environmental Stability in the United States

Connor Morley
David Roddy
IB Global Politics in a Historical Context
21 September, 2018
The Time is Now for Environmental Change Across America

My fellow Americans: as the President of the United States, the time is now to begin reforming the very tenants of our well-being as a nation. One of the ways to do this is to address the environmental problems that so plague us and that eventually contribute to economic downfall and social regression on an unprecedented scale.
At this point, we need to implement small steps that gradually coalesce into less and less water, wind, and electric energy waste. It is known that cities such as Houston, Texas, are known throughout the nation as important energy pipelines. Cities like these will be pressured to have cleaner energy production through my neoliberalist policies, which are steadily allowing more economic viability through more environmentally conscious business practices, which are already getting higher demand than ever as more people than ever take interest in environmental issues. This growing population will be especially glad to know that this will narrow-down suitable energy providers through elimination of unacceptable ones due to the quickly-diminishing legality of unsafe energy practices (laws that are steadily being brought to me through Congress). After these energy-crucial cities are enacted upon, cities very close to them (such as Austin to Houston) will have these policies enacted upon them as well in order to ensure their environmental stability.
Eventually, cities throughout the country will begin adopting these policies; whether the change into environmental stability and sustainability for most will be by influence from others across the nation or by the enactment of subsequent policies, only time will tell. But for the current moment, this is a plan for the most crucial cities for energy in the country to begin adopting greater environmental practices to combat the nearly two-thirds (66.7 percent) of energy that was wasted across the total used in the United States in 2017. This was through a combination of careless idle activities, such as leaving the lights on or the water running, and inefficient modes of energy use, such as transportation. However, it is mostly due to the latter (Roberts, 2018).
Through my plan, I know we can succeed; despite the long journey that it will be (and it certainly won't be completely successful in one try), I can confidently say that with the resources available to us in our nation at this very moment, I have devised the most viable option to help our nation, and eventually our planet, be as environmentally friendly, safe, and sustainable as possible.

Work Cited:
Roberts, David. “American Energy Use, in One Diagram.” Vox, Vox Media, 12 May 2018, www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/4/13/15268604/american-energy-one-diagram.

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Mr. Roddy said…
That's quite a subject to tackle! How will you eliminate unsuitable businesses if you are following a Neo-liberalist approach?
September 26, 2018 at 1:49 PM
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