To My Green Party Representative:

To My Green Party Representative: With evidence coming from the warming of the ocean's temperatures, the toxic qualities of our waters, the reduction of needed marine animal habitats and the disruption of the marine and global food chains, the raising of global temperatures and the increase in meteorological disasters there related, it is clear that global warming or global climate change is occurring at a fast pace and that our lifestyle must change in order to slow and reverse its effects before it's too late. This correspondence is an attempt to encourage policy commitment that will lead to a change in domestic policy orientation.

Because of its growing urgency and a clear need to recognize and diminish those factors causing it, I am urging that as a representative of the Green Party, you consider this another strand of evidentiary support for theories observing the occurrence of 'global warming.' This is a term which surfaced several decades ago to identify the emerging patters of climate shift that would be associated with manmade ecological hazards such as toxic emissions and the dismantling of the world's tropical rain-forests and today should be seen as having a consensus supporting the dangers there associated.

Indeed, in spite of substantial evidence to the favor of this viewpoint, the threat of environmental restraint to the bottom line for many industrial polluters has produced a considerable public backlash against the view of global warming. In the decades since its rise to prominence, the theory has been discredited in the media to the extent that the term 'global warming' has actually lost credibility. This, however, has been paired with rising evidence of its validity as a theory, predisposing its replacement with the term 'climate change.' The atmosphere in which this term has come to prominence suggests that with people increasingly prepared to acknowledge its reality, the fight against 'global warming' may actually be psychologically aided by the transition to a different label. Therefore, it should be considered incumbent upon the government itself to pass legislation designed to improve public awareness on the subject of global warming. This request is, in large part, driven by this belief that greater public awareness will lead both the a greater will for rectification and for the ingenuity of the public in forging solutions that are both policy-initiated and privately assumed.

Today, the fight against 'global climate change' rings with more political credibility, especially with the new and progressive President Obama now in U.S. office. And just as we can see the environmental movement using language in order to share or argue against certain beliefs and perspectives, it is also to oppose a manipulation in language to the destruction of the environment. Both environmental activists and polluters depend on the public impression for the furthering of their causes, and this makes the discussion on environmental language a very crucial one if we are to understand the psychological factors of the environmental movement for the public. This is to say that in spite of some evidence which has been available to us for some time, it is only now that public is making note of this pattern.