Chapters 9 & 10

With chapter 9, I thought it was great that she talked about Burlington. It really brought this issue back home for me. Vermont really has a lot of initiative in actually doing something about global warming. I love the idea about deconstruction instead of demolition because it sounds like a good way to cease waste and to expound on renewing instead of creating all the time. I wish more of the United States was on this city's page on their steps against global warming. It says that some Northeastern states like Massachusetts and Connecticut are trying to control their emissions of carbon. Yet, we still need more of this country to be on this same wavelength.

It's interesting to read that China is following the same path as us. I think that no one should follow our path because we'd probably only make things worse. So, I would hope that China follow Burlington instead of the US. They shouldn't have to produce so much more energy as us and build new coal plants. I just hope they get more up to speed with us.

Chapter 10 was more of Kolbert ranting about her frustrations on global warming. She did talk about the hole in the ozone layer and she did talk about the origins of CFC's. Yet, I didn't really learn anything in this chapter. It was just an angry environmentalist getting out her last thoughts. Or maybe that was more in the Afterword. It seemed like she was trying to push global warming in our faces. "Ha, this is what it did to us already," I could imagine her saying. I'm pretty sure most people reading already know about the affects of global warming. Yet, I guess she just wants to continue to prove her point.

I felt like I learned information about global warming. Yet, then I also just got a lot of opinion and a lot of facts by one side from this book. She had a lot of good facts and statistics to prove what she was trying to say. Yet, she beat around the bush way too much and probably should have stuck to the point a bit more. It was a good read though. I was entertained and intrigued by some of the off topic information like about the mosquitoes or the rats. She is a good journalist because she was able to get a lot of strong facts from her sources and her writing was easy to follow. I just wish the ending was a lot more interesting than just a frustrated author's thoughts.