Driving Global Warming

My family owns two gas guzzling monsters. A SUV and a Ford F-150. They are both really nice vehicles and we have never had any problems with them except when we fill up the tanks. Bill McKIbbs article Driving Global Warming elaborates on the fact that we are digging our planets grave with the cars that we drive.
McKibben begins his article that the fact that we did not begin buying gigantic gas guzzling machines until a decade ago. He jokes that if you look at a parking lot in suburban Boston that you would think that all the people there had to cross flooded rivers and climb through uncharted terrain. Looking at the cars with the eighteen inch clearance, four wheel drive and step up bumpers. Because of these behemoths Mckibbens comments that the international panel on climate change has concluded that our planet will warm four to five degrees before the end of the century. He further states that this is because the SUV burns much more gas than that of the usual compact car and because of this warming people in Bangladesh had to live in thigh deep water for three months. This flooding is because the Bay of Bengal was a couple of inches higher than usual from the melting of the ice caps. McKibben wants people not to immediately throw away their $40,000 car, but to stop purchasing the fuel inefficient vehicles.
I see McKibbens point in the fact that global warming is a big threat to our existence and yet we are doing very little to slow or stop the process. I don’t believe that the cars that we drive need to be as big and powerful as they are right now. We could defiantly downsize the cars that we have. I believe that the government should step in way more than they have or at least give a little more incentive for auto makers to build better vehicles. Although in a way we as a people can start the movement. We just need to stop buying these useless cars and trucks and instead buy better fuel efficient vehicles. I also want to point out that I agree that SUV’s are a good contributor to the world problem but there is much more than that. A couple of other contributors are Industry, residential and agriculture emissions. All of these things create CO2 emissions that damage our environment and we need to control this for not only the betterment of our lives but also for our children’s and our children’s children.