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18Who’s Responsible: Are Humans Responsible for Global Warming?Bryan Picado“Are we responsible for harming the environment?” In Taking Sides:Social Issues by Kurt Finsterbusch, Issue 20, “Is Humankind DangerouslyHarming the Environment?” by Lester R. Brown, the author argues thatpopulation growth, the growing consumption of grain-based and animalprotein, and, most recently, the massive use of grain to fuel cars areharming the environment. Similarly, it is shown in the documentary AnInconvenient Truth, directed by Davis Guggenheim, shows that since 1970,things have gone downhill when it comes to dealing with global warming. Ittalks about the multiple situations that are happening now due to globalwarming and who’s responsible for what in each situation. An InconvenientTruth proves Lester Brown’s point because it supports multiple aspects in hisessay. Evidence of this can be found when one considers An InconvenientTruth’s graph that shows the growing population and the prediction of whatthe population will be in 2050. Furthermore, the pop culture also reflects theessay in that it shows the growing demand for food. Finally, both agree thatthere’s an exponential growth on concentration levels of CO 2 due to pollutionand great use of fuel, especially food fuel.First, both Lester Brown and Davis Guggenheim agree that populationgrowth is harming the environment. In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore, theperson in charge of the slideshow, says “by 2050, there may be 9.1 billionpeople living on the planet.” This is a huge concern because more people aregoing to require more resources. The planet will not have enough resourcesto provide the growing population. Also, much of the population growth isoccurring in developing countries, which mean that these countries won’thave the capital necessary to support the population. We need to slow our