why is people worrying about global warming if when it happens we all are going to be dead anyways?

Question

beside taht will happen 100 of years from now and i will be dead and i could care less. Now who ever is going to be alive at that time then that their problem! not mine causei i will be dead.

Answer 1

Well heck, it might have a little bit to do with our children or children's children. Ya want em livin in this mess?

Answer 2

Of course we all could be dead tomorrow or in 15 minutes, but I will asume that you will live for a few more years.

Think of things that are happening right now that -even if you are not aware-, are important consequences of global warming. For example past year's hurricanes season that destroyed several places across Florida and the gulf coast. Maybe you don't know but insurance companies are not paying some of the damages and also are rejecting to give new contracts on those places, of course to have no insurance means the chance to have new damages by hurricanes not covered; even worst, there could be another devastating hurricane season on a yearly basis, what may leaving us wondering about the prices of rea state or the future of bulding and real state industry on those places.

Other example is the melting of the north pole (and the following melting of the south pole). Maybe yo are not aware but the north pole most probably will melt in 50 years (as you expect we all are going to be dead by then), unfortunately the effects on the enviroment by such a change is affecting the wild life now and although you may think that is not important, I am sure the people with interests in the fishing industry -whats left of it anyway-, will not agree with you.

Althought It may not seem evident to you, you should realice that the vast effects of global warming that we or those alive then, will have in 50 or 100 years are beggining to show now. If you want to have a better idea of what is happening I recommend you to read Carl Sagan's Millions of Millions.

Answer 3

personally I care very much about other people, whether they are alive now, alive in the future, or long since dead. I suppose I didn't always feel that way, but now I can't imagine feeling any other way, and I feel a dull pain when I read things like what you have just written.

You should do what you can to enjoy your life, nobody will do that for you. But perhaps you could do me a favor and try to learn to appreciate things that go beyond sense-pleasure, for example the cumulative sense-pleasure of countless others. Human civilization is at times a beautiful thing, and there is great potential for it to become much more beautiful on average. As long as some of us still live, there is potential.

Answer 4

Global warming can and will happen much, much faster than predicted by today's cautious, politically correct estimates.

Carbon levels are already higher then at any point in the measurable past (at least the past 600,000 years that we can measure due to gas frozen deep into antactic ice), and we all know emissions are increasing rapidly (popular estimates are been based on emission levels frozen at 2000 releases).

Genetecists tell us that we're all descended from one male about 70,000 years ago (call him Adam if you like, but the science supports this common human story). The changes the human race was faced with back then were nothing compared to what's coming, and as a species we've lost much of our survival knowledge and skills since then.

What most people don't understand yet is that from Alaska to Siberia the arctic permafrost is melting, and it contains unbelieveable quantities of methane, which is 20X more damaging, 20X more heat-trapping, than carbon dioxide.

Twenty years ago global warming was a wild theory, today we see the effects but we use feel-good blind faith as an excuse not to act. Twenty years from now the switch will have been irreversibly thrown, and in most of our lifetimes (certainly the lifetimes of our children) we will watch most species on the planet die.

The last time something on this scale happened, nothing on land larger than a rodent survived, yet we're going into this with 6 billion people, or 10-12 billion 20 years from now, who will all be fighting for their lives. What country will not invade their neighbors when not only all of their crops have failed, but their agricultural land has become arid and unusable? (We can all move north and learn to speak Canadian, eh?)

Check the facts (start with the link below), then as the saying goes, "be afraid... be very afraid."

With due apology to religious folks, God promised not to interfere in human affairs (after the flood, right?) so don't fool yourself that some miracle will get you off the hook, and no, it seems highly unlikely that Jesus will forgive us for actively and knowingly killing 10 billion people and taking most other species on the planet down along with us. Sorry, but going to church on Sunday and paying 10% tithing does not buy anyone a golden ticket to Heaven. Hell is coming to our doorsteps, courtesy of our own cumulative actions during our own lifetimes, and with no small measure of irony, it really is going to be VERY HOT! Our stewardship of this planet has been irresponsible, and we are wholly accountable for our disprespectful and reckless choices.

We may survive as a species if economic and social systems collapse soon enough to stop the oil-based economies in their tracks, and if the major evangelical religions haven't wiped out too many of the hunter/gatherer societies which might be able to forage and adapt throughout the massive changes. Is it coincidence that the cultures and populations least harmful to the planet may be best positioned to survive? Whether there's any "intelligent design" in that or not, it sounds sure resembles justice.

Neither the general population nor most politicians currently understand or acknowledge the true degree of threat involved, but rates of change have exceeded all past estimates. Global warming does threaten most of us in our own lifetimes, and should be political issue #1 in the coming election, as well as the major force driving foreign policy.

Answer 5

Well how great that you wouldn't give a damn about your own grandchildren or those of other people!

Just imagine the toxic world your own great great grandchildren might be living in one day...and will only have their ancestors, including you, to thank for it!

When? Hate to inform you, but people talk about "global warming" because we already know of it...and the only reason we know of it is because it is happening NOW.

Answer 6

Not everyone is as selfish as you. Our children and grandchildren will probably be alive, as will all the non-human species on the planet who have had all of this thrust on them through no fault of their own.

Your attitude is incredibly immature. I can tell that you're either a teenager or you work in finance. One of the two.

Answer 7

Because we're not all selfish jerks. Some of us care about the planet our great grandchildren will live on.

Answer 8

It is too bad you (and many others) think like that. The world is overpopulated with individuals who only think of me, me,me, I, I, I...only of themselves. All living humans should strive for the preservation of our planet and the continuation of life. We will not be here but our children and descendants will.

Answer 9

Money...Simple

Answer 10

You make a very strong argument for wanting to speed it up.