Did you know YOU are ruining our Earth?

Question

Al Gore told me this and I feel bad. I think we all need to vote for a Liberal in 08 or Earth as we know it will blow up.

marryme_alig : I currently live the life as an Amish man, I don't drive a car, I ride a horse to get around, my clothes are made out of Earth-friendly hemp, the computer I am on is run by solar power.

Jacob my friend, before you start calling someone else an idiot, perhaps you should look in the mirror. You should learn the difference between your and you're and learn how to spell conservative. If you can't pick up my sarcasm then let's just say you're not the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.

Jacob my friend, before you start calling someone else an idiot, perhaps you should look in the mirror. You should learn the difference between your and you're and learn how to spell conservative. If you can't pick up my sarcasm then let's just say you're the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.

Sorry I skipped a word, let me fix my sentence.

If you can't pick up my sarcasm then let's just say you're not the smartest cookie in the cookie jar.

Answer 1

So, very true. One of the biggest culprits is coffee drinkers, because coffee production it leads to the destruction of the Rain forests. Each coffee tree only produces 5 pounds of coffee a year. And since more and more people are drinking coffee drinks with more than one shot of coffee in them more and more coffee has to be produced. So each year who know how many hundreds of thousands of acres of Rain forest are cut down to plant coffee trees. These Rain forests are one of our planets biggest consumers of Carbon Dioxide, one of the factors in global warming. In addition who knows how many medical cures or scientific breakthroughs lay undiscovered in these rain forests, that we may loose forever. So if you drink coffee make sure you only buy "Shade Grown" Coffee, that is grown in the rain forests without having to cut down the trees.

Answer 2

All of humanity put TOGETHER cant 'ruin' the earth, it's been rotating just fine for several billion years and has some more to go.

take for example this nonsense:
"it is very hard to truly realize that our planet is struggling to survive and that we are all in grave danger."

The eco-extremists like to berate humankind for daring to take a place in the world, but last I checked every living creature in the natural does its share of eating and defecating and the world keeps spinning 'round paying no mind to those us glued to its surface. The Earth is not alive. It doesn't 'struggle' and it doesnt 'survive', it just is. And the only negative consequence if it *did* blow up from say an asteroid would be the humanity that is lost.

Eco-extremist has lost touch with humanity and human values, folks.

Here are the real problems we face in the world:
1. Lack of freedom - solution: Democratic freedom.
2. Lack of prosperity for all - solution: Capitalistic free market economies.
3. Excessive CO2 generation that may *in future* impact climate *somewhat* - solution: Nuclear power, safe, economical and renewable energy.
4. Coming underpopulation in Europe, Japan, and USA - solution: Start breeding again folks, and have fun doing it!

Do the above 4 and we will ruin the earth much less, and make humankind much better off.

Answer 3

GLOBAL WARMING/THE ENVIRONMENT IN GENERAL

Any and I mean any environmental cause or approach must be grassroots in nature. Having PhD's talk about global warming and having those representing industry interests debunk these present theories is a high level and almost an entirely futile effort. Don't get me wrong, it is great that someone with Al Gore's connections and exposure is getting the word out. However, people are people they want to see results.

Yes, the expression is now trite but still true, "Thing Globally, Act Locally". Watching the sky over a city, town or even a more rural area become darkened by smog has local impact, people take note and actually see A PROBLEM. A problem that can measured in terms of air quality or perhaps an AIR QUALITY HEALTH INDEX like the one that the provincial government in Ontario, Canada is in the process of implementing. You can measure results (however small) in terms of air quality and the affect it has on the health care system (those with breathing problems, doctor's visits, etc). It certainly speaks to the advantage of a UNIVERSAL health care system (however, actually implemented) as it actually makes sense to improve the environment as it keeps people healthy (a humanitarian cause) and when health care it publicly funded it affects the public coffers when people become ill therefore it even makes better financial sense to keep the environment a top priority.

Plus any approach must be entire with a complete overall plan (the big picture). Including recycling initiatives, energy solutions (alternatives/renewables can now present a real potential financial threat to the big oil companies and even power companies...), government involvement at all levels, public transit, greener vehicles in general (Hybrid, Hydrogen, Conventional electric, bio-diesel, ethanol), conservation in all energy arenas, ETC!

Economic viability is the real sell as many of these solutions are just that economically sensible (ensuring we look at the entire picture). Yes as more people use solar, wind and other renewable energy sources the cheaper the technology will get. Two of the newest billionaires have earned a large portion through renewables Solar (India I believe) and Wind (China I believe). Yes in many ways developing nations and economies will be the first and early adopters of such renewable tech as they are just building much of their infrastructure.

So what do we all need to do? GET INVOLVED ! Contact your local government about improving your recycling program, contact provincial/state/federal government about the adopting of these new technologies (renewables such as solar/wind), buy gas with ethanol in it and demand it, use and demand bio diesel, buy products with less packaging and demand manufacturers to reduce packaging and to offer a price break as a result. More ECONOMIC VIABILITY! After all energy diversity just like economic diversity is the safest and best bet for good long term results and return on investment.

Joe...


KEEP IT UP MR. GORE THE POLAR BEARS NEED YOU FIRST **GRIN**.

Answer 4

Of course, silly! What else would I be thinking when I dump anti-freeze and used motor oil into the sewer? Or drive my car to work? Or cut down a dead tree for firewood. Or use a plastic bag to preserve my leftovers. Or use a petroleum based condom to prevent another earth-destroyer from being born? Or put my trash at the curb for delivery to a landfill? Or turn on the air conditioner or heater? Or light a cigar, hand-rolled on the hot, sweaty thighs of a young Cuban girl? Or flush the toilet? I don't see Al Gore (inventor of the internet) squatting over a hole in the desert. You?

Answer 5

He's right. Fortunately he will save the planet if he's elected. He's just got to get inside a phone booth and change first.

The easiest solution is to ban oil, vehicles and all technology developed after 1324bc. Oh yeah, and kll about 80% of the world population as well. Just start with Americans as they consume significantly far more resources than any other nation either per capita or as a whole and seem unable to accept any responsibility for it.

Answer 6

Your not Amish cause Amish don't use electronics. And they don't ride horses, they ride in horse drawn vehicles, there is a difference. Plus no Amish person would be a liberal idiot like you, they are very conservative.

Ohhh you were being sarcastic? Right....

your ( P ) Pronunciation Key (yr, yôr, yr; yr when unstressed)
adj. The possessive form of you.

So your or you're are both correct.

Answer 7

I've known this for at least the past 25 years...an article im Time magazine told me the same thing, reinforcing my feelings on the topic. So I recycle everything that can be recycled, and just basically do what I can to do my part....what are you doing about it? Feeling bad is not enough.

P.S. Good for you, Mr.Amish man. It's funny, my mother always said she would have loved to have lived her life as the Amish do. Please read my other response regarding landfills. The questions was "How big of a problem are landfills currently?" Thank you for responding.

Answer 8

Of course I do. Its not just environmentally destructive activities. Its all activities by too much life in a finite ecosystem. We can make a little more room by conserving but the bottom line is population reduction. If we were more intellectually advanced (we have the technology) we could do that painlessly. But we're not and we won't. Not to worry! mother nature's been taking care of the population verses environmental integrity issues in small and large ways for as long as she's been around. It won't be pretty and our species probably won't survive it, but balance will be restored.

Answer 9

Yes. This is a very difficult problem to try to fix. As voters, we have to very carefully elect our government whose members are sympathetic to our world environment. We have to get rid of all those members who are in league with big oil, coal, gas and large polluting industries. Right now, government is out for short term profit, not the welfare of the populace or the the world at large. We are raping our earth with no caution as to the consequences, no consience. Our lifestyle here in America and Europe is ever so comfortable and as the world appears so rosy, it is very hard to truly realize that our planet is struggling to survive and that we are all in grave danger. Therefore, it will be extremely difficult for people to suddenly ditch their gas guzzeling large cars, switch over to non-poluting forms of energy, conserve like never before in a short period of time and change lifestyle. Human nature is such that we as a whole, unless we are face to face with a disaster, would rather procrastinate, tell ourselves that the problem isn't so bad or that we are unable as individuals to make a difference, so we may as well go on with our day to day life and turn our backs on the problem. I hate to seem pessimistic, but I doubt we can turn this around. Hopefully something catastrofic comes along to really shock us out of our stupor to get us going. Unfortunately, it will likely not take less than that for us to succeed.

Answer 10

Oh...Al Gore told you and a couple hundred thousand others his view on this subject. Exactly what science degree does Al Gore have? Perhaps he is just a wacko espousing a liberal theory.
I personally am not too concerned about global warming.