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As a student attending Florida Gulf Coast University I am required to take a class that specializes in maintaining the natural habitats on earth and especially in south Florida. At first I thought this was just another scheme to get a dollar out of the student because I had no idea what we would be doing in this class that would benefit me. After speaking to a few of my friends they told me that this class was all about global warming and all that rhetoric. This kind of got me feeling uneasy because I can't stand that subject, my belief is yes we need to clean up our earth but we cannot stop a process such as glaciers melting. Science has proven that there have been times when the earth was covered by oceans, how did this occur? Did the dinosaur's not have the right governors on their S.U.V.'s, I mean come on.I heard a scientist say that when a volcano erupts the greenhouse gas emitted is more pollutant then all the vehicles on earth has ever emitted. So being in opposition to what this class will be teaching us I do not have a closed mind because in order to strengthen my argument on global warming I find it necessary to fully understand the other sides point of view, this give me a tactical advantages when debating.