Prompt: Write an argumentative essay aimed at your state legislator that explains a few problems related
to climate change and argues for a reasonable change that ordinary people can make to help
solve these problems.
Essay:
One way that we can help keep climate change from getting worse is by using public
transportation rather than individual cars whenever possible.
These changes in heat affect the entire globe's climate but not always in the same way. One
outcome of climate change is extreme weather — not just extreme heat or drought, but also
tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and other disasters that used to happen just once in a blue moon.
Climate change is the result of carbon emissions in the atmosphere trapping heat that would
normally leave through the ozone.
Cars are responsible for 28 percent of carbon emissions in the United States. If each person rode
the bus just one day a week, carbon emissions could be reduced by almost 40 percent.