"If the half of Americans who say they would join an anti climate change campaign did maybe it is not impossible that they could change the system from the inside, and wouldn’t have to eradicate it." I agree with what starfish is saying about how everything is not necessarily hopeless, and how change is possible without complete participation.

I 've seen some of my classmates so sure about the future. I don't like the way they think about it. The weather forecast uses satellite to detect the weather and forcast it. And it is not a hundred percent accurate. How can we infer what the future will be like with some indirect traces? There are people igonring the environmental damage but there also are people noticing it and finding ways to make it better.

There are someting I agree and disagree with the post written by changing18. "Americans are more divided than ever on issues that stem from hatred against one another. Man against man. I don't see a quick answer to big changes people are willing to make from their comfortable lifestyles" I don't see the sign of hatred there in the book, I see people against each other but they are all stem from their own benefits, so nobdy is the single one to blame while nobody is innoncent.

"I began to realize that even my what if thoughts were idelistic.... [it] is almost too much to ask that everyone change and do better now. I realize that once you are set in your ways, that you develop certain habits, and the things you care about may not be grave importance." But what if not everyone has to change? 'As The World Burns' suggests that since the government is influenced too much by money and corporations to combat climate change, society must take it upon itself to overthrow "the system" and get off a path to distruction.

Going along with what panda was saying, everyone is ignoring the impending nature of global warming. In addition to scientist backing out of talks about the drastic climate changes and governmental institutions not taking more preemptive steps towards a better future, no one is truly disscusing how all of this will effect the lower classes. In the green ghetto article Kolbert talks about how Van Jones has taken initiatives to create green jobs for the lower classes and other marginiized groups such as people who have just gotten out of prison and highschool drop outs.

I agree that I was left with a lack of words/ positive solutions after reading As the World Burns. Yet I also don't fault the book for this because I don't think it is the books job to both reprimand humans behavior and give solutions.  I think as scholars we always look to critique a writers work in order to find a purpose in an author's message.  Here Jensen and McMillan have given presented their audience with a grave problem but give no realistic situations to fix it.

I believe that one of Western Civilization's flaw is denial, in the aspect where we know what the issue is and how to fix it but we still deny responsibility. If the whole Western Civilization came together just like the animals did with the girl, we would be able to overcome climate change. As we can see our personal efforts are not having a big enough of an effect and we need to get to the root of the problem, which is to overthrow the government with leaders that will actually unify the country to fight against climate change.

I completely agree that As the World Burns makes clear the problems regarding climate change, and emphasizes the need for change. However, I don’t think the answer lies in the human race uniting together to change things. A very important idea, one that is often overlooked, that is brought up by the graphic novel is the concept of speciesism.