The+Peak+of+Environmental+Awareness

//Southern California wildfires:// As if the unspeakable atrocity of Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough for America to deal with, Southern California was hit with another natural disaster. The infamous wildfires of 2007 swept Southern California from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border. This disaster lead to the evacuation of more than one million people and destroyed over 1,600 homes and businesses. Could America handle another drastic natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina or the wildfires in California? People started to step up to the plate and became more environmentally aware. //The up & coming “green” population:// Due to these natural disasters and other issues in the environment such as global warming, more and more Americans became “green.” The term “green” is used to describe those that take good care of the environment. For example, Al Gore’s eye-opening documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” became a popular box-office hit and also benefited the environment as Americans took it to heart and started to apply the teachings of the film to their own lives.