In today's day and age, humans as a whole produce an estimated 9.5 billion metric tons of carbon. These extremely high amounts of pollution are very dangerous to the environment. Another form of highly dangerous pollution is toxic waste, which as shown in “Lee Sherman and the Toxic Louisiana Bayou” can have an enormous impact on people as a whole. Another example of pollution from this unit is from “Song for the Turtles in the Gulf” where a turtle is found scorched and burned from chemical burns. These texts, as I will be discussing, are prime examples of my opinion that companies are almost constantly hurting nature.
In “Lee Sherman and the Toxic Louisiana Bayou”, a man named Lee Sherman works for the company PPG. In this episode, he starts