... it is 397 ppm (parts per million)

Do you know what today’s CO² (carbon dioxide) level in the atmosphere is today?  

Yes, correct, it is 397 ppm (parts per million). The safe level, agreed upon globally, is 350 ppm. Man's activities influence the climate of today & tomorrow. The use of dead (fossil) fuels worsens the dire consequences now thwarted upon us, with energy business as usual. The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) business has compounded the negative consequence of continued mining of coal, oil and gas. 

Each day articles flood social media regarding the harmful affects to us & Earth about frack-water usage, unprotected groundwater, mismanagement of toxic wastewater, fouled air emissions, catastrophic impacts to roadways and mega-mall size frack sites, and man-made caused seismic activity. Legislators & regulators allegiances are not to the common good via sound environmental practices, but with the obvious, self serving dis-information campaigns of  an industry creating unnecessary, unwanted climatic conditions of change.

One wishes one could sound a note of optimism, yet with the invisible CH⁴, (methane) greenhouse gas, causing 4 times, to a 100 times the misery of CO² places on earth, such words can not be expressed. A political, environmental awakening of slumbered Ohioans, benefiting all earthlings, will bring hope through imperative transformative acts.