do you care about the future of our environment?

Question

if so, do you purposly shop or purchase environmentally friendly products? What other ways do u do your part for our environment?

Answer 1

While I believe that "doing our part" is important, I have decided to work in the environmental field in order to try and enact change on a larger scale than simply installing energy saving lightbulbs (an important thing, btw!).

I think it is less likely that most people will go out of their way to purchase ecofriendly products over cheaper ones. I think the best method is to "encourage" large comapnies to adopt environmentally-friendly policies. If a large-scale plastic manufacturer begins to adopt policies like reduction in air emissions and alternative fuel sources for their plants, the overall effect would not only be seen first-hand, it would trickle down to the consumer (they would be purchasing ecofriendly products without even knowing it).

At least that's my take.

Answer 2

yeh but sometimes i think its useless, too many large corporations dumping toxic stuff into oceans, polluting rivers n lakes also and water supplies, they just wont stop so, n now they want to go to mars, lol they just dont know when to quit, wht for, just so they can pollute it too, n then on n on, no wonder civilizations destroy themselves, especially how people waste water, like is nothign...in future generations all the water will be totally polluted n peopel will have to try to live on that

Answer 3

I don't do it on purpose. Just that i'll try to be environmentally friendly by not asking for plastic bags if purchasing small items.

Also, i ask for less salt, less sugar and less gravy.

:lol: :)

Answer 4

I do my share. I recycle and purchase environmental products.

Answer 5

Yeah and I think everyone should. I've planted trees and picked up garbage, and I recycle everything that is recyclable. Plus I opt to ride my bike more often than I drive.

Answer 6

think about it? all the time, I'm an environmental engineer and what I see worries me more and more all the time

if not just for the present generation then how selfish we actually are being in that we're not really thinking about future generations but just our own...what about when this generations kids are grown?....and their kids?

Answer 7

One day, in the future, we'll probably do accelerated genetic cropping (on a mass scale) using solar energy, in specially-designated space stations in space.

Answer 8

as a family, we have a recycle bin and we put in it what we are asked to put in it, and there's a good chance that it doesn't actually get recycled, but put on the local dump site.

so, yes I care, but I need to trust the people I rely on to recycle the stuff.

Answer 9

I think it is responsible to take care of our natural resorces. But check out this article from USA Today about Al Gore the "spokesman" for global warming:

But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.

Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.

Answer 10

recycle all plastics, glass, newspaper, paper, aluminum. use less energy around the house. use less fresh water when taking a bath or shower. go hybrid if you can afford it. little things will add up.