Does anybody care about Global Warming?

Question

I feel that there's not enough people who care about our environment. We're all practically causing animals to become extinct like the polar bears in antarctica, but yet most of us don't take action. I try to bike where ever I go and I try hard to limit driving. I also recycle. What do you guys do to help the environment?

Excuse me arwyayen23. The fact is that I did not see the movie Al Gore did, I also had no idea that he made this movie until today. I am an Environmentalist and I do know that all this is theory. But there are A LOT of evidence that supports Global Warming. Plus, are you going to wait for a point where the damage is done for you to consider mending it. Even though it might be theory, maybe you should get @ss into doing something productive that may help save the Earth, instead of pondering. At least trying to be more environmentally friendly wouldn't hurt. But when you keep that thought up and your indifference in helping the environment, the consequence maybe be too great.

Answer 1

OK, let's assume - for the sake of argument - that global warming is a "farce" and there's no need for anyone to be concerned about it, or any other environmental or ecological issue on this third rock from the sun.
So, smartblondeb...I've got a proposition for you. Why don't you send me all your money and just let me squander it for you? I'll guarantee you won't be able to make the next payment on your Hummer (or, for that matter, on your next bottle of hair spray)! I'll just squander it on all kinds of wasteful misadventures, piss it all away just because there's really no need for you to save any of it; money is just another resource that can be frittered away.

So why do we feel it's okay to fritter away all of Earth's natural resources? After all, we need OIL for our gas-guzzling SUVs; we need COAL so we can heat our homes; we need smoke-belching factories so we can manufacture all those "things' that are so important to our daily life (and that we can buy at Wal Mart for 'low prices - everyday'); we need vehicles whose emissions pollute the air and our water supply; we need to asphalt over all of America's rich farm land so we can shop at glitzy new malls.

So what if oil drilling interferes with the migration paths of the caribou up in Alaska? It's only going to affect a few thousand backwards Eskimos who depend on caribou for their food, shelter and clothing (why can't they buy all that stuff at the glitzy new mall?). So what if we run out of coal; surely someone will invent a new way to keep our $300,000 houses warm and toasty. So what if we keep paying people to haul our trash to a landfill? By the time they start leaching toxic poisons, we'll be dead and gone, and our great-great-great-great grandchildren can worry about those problems.

We're just too damned comfortable whizzing around in our fancy cars, living in homes larger than we really need (with six bathrooms), and eating hundred-dollar dinners at posh bistros.

We're just too damned lazy to inconvenience ourselves by even bothering to REturn, REuse, and REcycle. After all, the trees and natural resources needed to manufacture cardboard, tin cans, steel, newsprint, magazines, phone books, plastic containers, styrofoam cups, and scrap paper are still plentiful. We'll just squander it all until everything's gone.

And when we've finally sucked every drop of oil from the Earth, mined every ounce of coal out of our mountains, and drained all the other natural materials from inside Earth's giant core, the Earth will probably implode on itself. But why should We care? That's not going to happen in OUR lifetime! -RKO-

Answer 2

Does anybody research anything for themselves... or is Al Gore actually making an impact?

Global Warming is a farce. The fact is, the world's climate has been on average much hotter and much colder in the past. When I say the past, I mean over the last couple million years. What is wrong with the bleeding heart environmentalist is that they think too short term... "Global Warming" is nothing but a politically driven craze that people actually think is based on real science. The fact is, most of the scientific populus agrees that "global warming" is just a natural phenomenon and that Earth is in a warming cycle. In the next 200, 300, 3000 years whatever the Earth will go through many more small cycles like this.

Before you go regurgitating what you heard about global warming from your parents or sensationalist politicians/news please research for yourself... That's what free-thought is for.

Live and Learn ain't just a saying, it's a way of life.

On another note, just because I do not believe in global warming does NOT mean I have no regard for the environment. I respect and am in awe of nature and the beauty of the Earth. We should do what we can to preserve her, but if we label a natural cycle as a disaster just for the sake of votes or ratings, we are misdiagnosing the problem. It's just like in medicine, if you misdiagnose people die... and that's just what the Al Gore's of this world are going to cause.

Answer 3

There was a congressional hearing today actually it was on C-Span on Globabl Warming. With growing pressure on gov to act on it there's going to be more and more discussions and at some point the US will have to take a stand on one side or another. It will be interesting to see if there will be dramatic fight (may be in supreme court even) to settle if Global Warming really is a threat. I don't expect much from the public since most people won't go out of their way, but it will be largely up to policy makers and industry leaders.

Answer 4

Global warming is a pseudo science being trumped up and solicited for an fearful uneducated masses!!!Al Gore is a Monkey and is selling a premise using fear to other monkeys who are generally fearful of this life. They want free health care an easy job etc. There are too many real scientist who refute this clowns so called scientific premises. So this "global warming"is really a way of telling their betters how to run their lives. The earth doesn't need you to manage it Most of you who believe Al Gore can barely mangage yourselves!

Answer 5

I completely agree with you....But, So many people are too busy trying to look rich so they drive their Suburbans which use up WAY TOO MUCH GAS......they would never carpool because then people couldn't look at them in their Expensive tanks drinking their espressos talking on their cell phones.... Why do single women drive around in vehicles made for 8 people when it's only them?!?!?!?!? SELFISH!!!!!!!!!! People are too concerned about themselves and their appearances....Well, and there are some people that just don't give a ****.
I carpool, walk, ride my bike, recycle....I think another thing is that people are so freakin lazy they really don't want to get off their fat asses and do anything.

Answer 6

global warming is a natural cycle of the earth....the things we need to take responsibility for are the deforestation going on and depletion of the natural resources but global warming and extinctions are going to happen whether humans are here or not

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure at least the 50+ people who just died in California's 11 day heat wave last week cared a bit prior their demise.

Answer 8

That's like asking "Does anybody care about seeing Suri Cruise's baby pictures?" Of course. Doesn't everybody?

Answer 9

there is only lip sympathy at national and international meets. no firm and concrete measures are taken to tackle this serious problem. may be this an act of god for total annihilation

Answer 10

i care and i wish more people did cause one day it's going to be so bad there won't be anything left to do and then they will see how important it really is