An Inconvenient Conversation

This assignment was one that I found to be more exciting than I would have expected it to be. My family tends to have daily conversations throughout the day about tons of different topics so when I decided to sneak this topic up in one of them there where alot of mixed emotions. The conversation included my grandmother Charlotte Jackson who grew up somewhere in the 50's back in the south , my father Charles Jackson who was born and raised in California, My mother Lashunda Jackson who was also born in California but lived in different parts of the States, my oldest brother Elliot Jackson who was born in Texas, but raised her in California and I of course was included in the conversation. The reason I decided to include my family's background is because it came up in their opinions through one of the reasons they agreed with one side or another. The question I asked to start the conversation off was something along the lines "How does climate change?" My dad was the first one to answer and he explained how there is a ozone layer above our planet and since we are emitting more and more things into the air such as pollution like smog , carbon monoxide, etc it is messing with the ozone layer and it is causing what people like to call global warming, or "Climate Change". A few of my family members chimed in with small comments such as "That's why its been so cold in California lately, its never been this cold in San Diego." "I know right the other day when I got in my car there was ice on my windshield" There were a few in between convos around the topic said but not really hitting the topic. Then we go on the subject of how factories back in the day seemed like the best idea back then to help the economy get better and also a more efficient way to make the different things that were in demand after the Enlightenment period started up with the new inventions. We also touched bases on how oil was something that made the machines work more effetely , and we looked at it as a "blessing" in a sense because it fuel so many different things back then and even now such as air planes , cars , machines . But in today's day and age it is seen as one of the number one causes of air pollution a main role in the "Climate Change" and even in water pollution. We also bring up how it was crazy to think about how we are after so many years of having oil be a main priority in our economy that they are trying to actually find alternate ways to get the machines and transportation running. Of course in the mist of the conversation George Bush came up in how much of a demand that oil was in our country , that it was one of the reasons for starting up the War in Iraq . The topic of the prices of gas prices going up and how it was somewhat of a chain reaction, my mom was the first to speak up on how the grocery items prices went up in price as well as well. My grandmother chimed in added how the entire economy was going to be effected by the increase in oil prices because it is a item that contributes to everyone's businesses. My grandmother bring up the fact that when she lived back in Memphis there weren't factories yet , she use to go out in the fields and pick cotton and corn and whatever else the farmers had out in the fields to higher workers. She said it gave them jobs , and also something to keep busy by. The conversation stayed on the topic of "Back in the days" and how our ancestors used to be the ones supply all of the cotton for clothes , the food , etc. That topic pretty much ended our conversation about the Energy topic, because we jumped into a different subject.