Is it worth trying to stop Global Warming

 is it worth the time 

• Roger A. Pielke Jr’s research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it.
• United Nations estimate that global warming would increase the number of people at risk of hunger from 777 million in 2020 to 885 million by 2080, a 14% rise, if current development patterns continue.
• Downplaying the importance of emissions reductions has raised hackles among scientists around the world, who say that the planet-wide effects of global warming will eventually go beyond humans’ ability to deal with it.
•  ”You can’t adapt to melting the Greenland ice sheet,” said Stephen H. Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford University. “You can’t adapt to species that have gone extinct.” 
•  They detailed a likely future of worsening famine in Africa, expanding floods as sea levels rise as much as 23 inches, and accelerated species extinction. To avoid the worst, the reports warned that emissions must be reduced 50% to 80% by mid-century, keeping temperature rise below 2 degrees.

If it is cheaper to adapt to global warming then to fight it why are we still trying to do something about it?  Global warming has been happening for a long time and we are just now trying to help prevent it.  Because we have not done anything in the past Global Warming will affect my generation and the generations to come more then ever.   This is good to know for our segment because we are the ones who it is affecting.  If we stop spending money on ways to stop global warming we would have a lot more money to spend on other important things that will help out our generation.

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