“As the world burns” it truly shows how politics play a large role with in the environment and energy consumption. With a possible bill approaching the point of passing that would change the American economy and the emissions of gases forever, McCain, one of the leaders of the bill was met with a challenge for his senate position in Arizona. With the fear of losing his senate position this challenge caused McCain to pump the breaks and slowly step away from his portion of the bill that would soon pass. This is a prime example to how the government recognizes that there is a problem that needs to be addressed, but when something else comes up environmental issues get placed on the back burner. Even though a lot of people do place current issues on the back burner, when president Obama was elected he saw the urgency in addressing the climate issues of our nation. Him along with many politicians took the step to determine what is important to our nation with health care and our climate issues. Obama’s staff planned to attack these simultaneously hoping that it would be the turning point that our nation needed. As time progressed Obama’s party began to follow that old path of pushing things off to the side. Once health care took the main spot light, his party began to focus its attention on this leaving the global environment issues to be once again pushed on the back burner. If our society and the rest of the world continue to do this it will be too late by the time they realize it is truly important.
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