by Kevin Numerick

Created on: April 30, 2010   Last Updated: May 01, 2010

Al Gore understands that Global warming is not just an environmental issue. Many people do not see the entire spectrum of which global warming and the solutions to try to stop it touch. It expands across most major functions of the United States, including national security, the economy, agriculture, human health and the environment.

Global warming is linked to pollution that oil produces, which can create wars, fighting over oil which endangers our troops and threatens national security. The oil we purchase from overseas also helps fund terrorism to some degree, which is a significant problem.

If the United States were attacked and all oil imports were brought to a halt, the U.S. would be unable to function as goods could not be delivered across the country, including food.

The United States military also recently put global warming and climate change as one of the top threats for the future. The reason behind this is that it will lead to further wars over resources, such as clean drinking water, which is already becoming a problem.

If unchecked, global warming can also be the cause of mass human migrations, hundreds of millions of people from regions of the world disappearing due to sea level rise.

Global warming may also result in destabilization of what is already the most unstable regions of the world, which has been quoted as taking a hornet’s nest and shaking it up, once again creating more wars.

If we are able to transition away from oil and fossil fuels altogether, the U.S. will become energy independent, strengthening national security. Using renewable energy, such as wind and solar, we can use electric vehicles, high speed electric rails and other transit.

This will help boost the United States economy and if done correctly, make us the leaders in the next world economy of clean energy technology. This is a major aspect to solving the global warming problem and our economic problem.

If the United States moved forward with trying to solve global warming, millions of jobs would be created from restructuring the power grid to manufacturing the clean energy technology, building new rail systems, advanced batteries and electric cars, among many others.

If done correctly, it will also allow the United States to create new technology, using innovation to lead the world and export our products globally. There is enormous potential to strengthen our economy through clean energy solutions while trying to slow and stop human enhanced climate change, but

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