" (Roger Revelle, 2010, p.2). Revelle's presence on the panel would demonstrate the long-standing nature of global warming. Revelle could also discuss why taking action on global warming has been so difficult politically, despite mounting scientific evidence that the phenomenon exists for so many years. Revelle began his work in oceanography but gradually expanded his focus to population studies, enabling him to bring his expertise in both fields to the panel (Roger Revelle, 2010, p.3).
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, the author of the Omnivore's Dilemma and Food Rules, has devoted his career to exposing the harms of commercial agriculture on the environment and upon human health. Pollan details simple ways that human beings can change the way they eat, such as avoiding processed foods and foods with High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC), to live healthier lives that are better for their bodies and for the planet. A heavily meat-based diet based upon a monoculture of growing corn for animal feed and corn-based sweeteners is linked to excessive caloric intake and also to increases in greenhouse gases, writes Pollan (Pollan 2007). Pollan's writings demonstrate how the
The consequences of global warming upon human life, Pollan's work suggest, are manifest in the here and now.
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