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21pollution is built up. As of today, scientists want to create fuel based on foodor natural resources. As in Davis Guggenheim film and Lester Brown’s essay,food demand is increasing not only from the growing population, but alsofrom fuel production from food. CO 2 is causing the icebergs to melt, raise thenormal temperature in the ocean, hotter summers, colder winters, stronghurricanes, and ocean levels to rise. According to Al Gore, “carbon emissionsper person and per country [in the US] are much greater than any othercountry”. This proves once more that people who live in the United Statesdon’t even care about the environment. Instead of protecting and nourishingit, we cause more damage and we may not even set it back to normal. Boththe growing population and the increase in food fuel usage make food the“weak section” of the world.Last but not least, Lester Brown agrees with Davis Guggenheim whenit comes down to fuel usage. For instance, Lester Brown himself writes “mostowners are not concerned about whether their fuel comes from an oil well ora corn field” (364). In other words, Lester Brown believes that people do notcare where fuel comes from as long as they can drive to fulfill their duties.David Guggenheim’s film also agrees with Brown when Al Gore says “waterdemand is mostly for agricultural purposes.” This proves that food is mostlybeing harvested to support the demand for fuel. This exposes us, humans,as a careless and selfish race that only cares for the present and not thefuture of our existence. Finally, in Lester Brown’s view, “annual growth inworld grain consumption has created an epic competition between cars andpeople for grain” (364). The essence of Lester Brown’s argument is that ifwe keep following this path, then we are ultimately going to run out of foodand then our future generations are going to suffer.In conclusion, “Are Humans Dangerously Harming the Environment” byLester Brown and An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim both agreethat population growth, the growing consumption of grain-based and