Read the following: “Choking the Oceans with Plastic,” pages 327-332; “Should We Be More Optimistic about Fighting Climate Change,” pages 309 – 319; “We Are the Wildfire: How to Fight the Climate Crisis,” pages 294 – 302;

Essay 5: What are your own views about the “climate crisis” as Noami Klein terms it? Using a minimum of three articles you wrote about in journals 17-20, or other articles from the textbook section titled “Why Care about the Planet?” (starting on page 291) as support, offer your own opinions about climate change and the impacts we are having on the environment. Even if your knowledge and understanding of the topic does not go much beyond what you read about it in our textbook, you can offer your own opinions based on what you learned from the readings in the textbook, and how the authors convinced you one way or another.

You must include specific examples and details from the text to support your ideas and claims in each essay. Essays should be typed in Microsoft Word using 12 pt font, Times New Roman, black ink, double-spaced, and printed on the front side of the paper only (following MLA formatting). Each essay will be three to five pages in length, or about 900 – 1200 words

Essays must include a title, an introduction, a thesis statement, body/evidence, and a conclusion. The instructor will evaluate each essay using the attached rubric found at the end of this syllabus.

When you include the ideas of other writers, you must accomplish two additional tasks as part of your essay. First, you must create a Works Cited page. Second, the sentences that you write must include citation, as well as clear punctuation showing which words are yours. You will be required to use in-text citations and include a Works Cited page according to MLA guidelines with all essays.