Is your Government doing enough about climate change?

Answer 1

Actually, our government does fund some small scale alternate energy research. They are depending on a free market to take over at some point.

After the energy crisis of the early 1970s, a number of projects and pilot programs began. In general, these free market attempts did not achieve financial success, and here is why.

- installation costs
- equipment costs
- maintenance costs
- fuel costs did not compete against oil prices, and still don't
- delivery infrastructure
- waste disposal costs

In general, to save our planet, we MUST develop a diversity of solar energy based systems that can deliver energy to any part of the globe. When the Chinese and India populations become consumers like Americans and Western Europeans, our planet could not recover from the CO2 build-up.

There are hundreds of ideas.
- solar energy to build up stored hydrogen, which could be delivered as a clean fuel
- more hydroelectric power
- more wind mills
- more tidal energy generation

You can help. Study the public offerings of companies that show a commitment to develop solar energy based generation or delivery systems. BUY STOCK as an investor to help them out. Don't short sell.... be bullish on our planet.

Good luck planet earth. So until we have another planet, this is it.

Answer 2

In Canada, no. One survey not so long ago (when the Liberals were in government) found that many federal government ministers drove gas guzzling SUVs, including the minister for the environment. Good example, guys. As for the current government, the environment minister survived a challenge from the opposition to have her ousted. I haven't heard too much from the current government about climate change.

Answer 3

No, but the English Government is doing more than the American administration. At least England signed Kyoto!

But it's important no one leaves it to the government because we all have an environmental foot print and the size of that footprint has an impact on all aspects of environmental damage - eg. carbon emmissions, the amount of rainforest destroyed per McDonald's hamburger etc.

By the way, before anyone jumps on the "Soya production is the major cause of rainforest destruction" bandwagon, this may be the case but the vast majority of Soya is produced for animal feed.

Answer 4

That's not the whole point. The govt is required to act when there is an obvious problem, by which time its too late. The damage has been done. They need advisors to help them define the legislation, it cannot be worded sloppily because it allows loopholes. The business community always pleads that they are a special case and ask for more time to implement legislation. And to get new legislation through it has to be watered down to get most people to agree to it.
Business doesn't act in our long term best interest; it acts to make a short term profit. And it does the most mind blowing, jaw droppingly stupid things, like dumping toxic waste. In what known reality can that be considered legal, or honest, or not sociopathic? In war, it has never been 'good manners' to poison a well; it is considered low as it affects the women and children, and is cowardly. That goes back to biblical times. Yet business will churn out hazardous waste as a 'by product' of a process, then refuse to deal with it safely because non of their competitors do and so it will make them less profitable.
The way that our society produces and manages its own waste does not make sense, not on any level. Mant of us would like to 'do' more, but where is the central trustworthy source of information that we can turn to to suggest different things that we can do?
And why is it acceptable for business to push things to the point where the govt needs to legislate against their activities?
Even where it is illegal for companies to discharge waste, they still do. They are criminals. There are lakes of toxic waste in both the USA and the USSR.
We have to make a start by educating ourselves as best we can, doing as much as we can, and teaching our kids to clear up their own mess.

Answer 5

there is not something that the authorities can do to resign climate replace. look at how properly we can provide up the once a year floods and how properly we've managed our rivers. it really is organic folly to imagine that guy has as a lot ability as he imagine he does. This suggested, can we favor to be more suitable useful stewards and commence fixing our ability complications at present? We do. keep in recommendations also that the U. S. has somewhat some the most strictest environmental rules of any us of a and the coolest 2 polluters are at the moment India and China. there is more suitable pollution in those 2 international places then everywhere else interior the international. the coolest 2 polluting Continents are South us of a of america and Asia.

Answer 6

No. Australia's government has implemented little, if not no legislations to prevent climate change. Our government is one of the worst in the world, in terms of how much our country consumes, and what the government does about it.

Answer 7

Yes they are. Nothing. It is absurd to think that humans can affect climate change.

Why is it that Volcano's can release so much pollution, so many times more than humans, and all you activists just ignore it. I have never heard any of you explain that.

The earth has had many volcano's in the past, and the earth heals itself. If a volcano can not affect climate change, how can humans?

So I am glad they are doing nothing, because it would be a big waste of money.

Answer 8

Our government has talked a lot and our PM and ministers have flown around a lot so yeah, they have, for the worse.

Keep up the good work Blair you corrupt oik.

Answer 9

This issue, like many others are on the back burner.

Answer 10

Good God no!

Is any government?