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Climate change is no longer a debatable topic-it is a known fact. With scientists across the globe racing to slow down the rising atmospheric temperatures why should they be the only ones delegated the work of saving the planet we call home? So let's combine the advantages of having the most informed and biggest consumer market history has ever seen with troubleshooting and solving the biggest dilemma we have on hand. We can work together one sip at a time to slow down the effects of plastic straws. In the United States alone, consumers use 500,000,000 straws a day. The inherent problem with that is the obvious: these straws land in our environment. Whether it be a landfill, a pond, the side of a highway, or the ocean, they end up somewhere and take years to decompose. But that's only the tip of the iceberg: The carbon emissions and pollutants emitted from not only the disposing of straws but also in their creation is what's detrimental to our environment. If plastic continues to pile up in our oceans we will be hurting our biggest source of oxygen and if the pollutants continue to build up in our atmosphere we will have a cataclysmic problem in our hands. If the Earth's average surface temperatures rise a few more degrees seaside cities will be underwater, some places around the earth will be uninhabitable due to the change in temperature in relation to humidity. The time is now; we do not want to bequeath the consequences of our wasteful consumer habits to the next generation to handle because then it might be too late.