Al Gore has said our environment is dieing. What can we do to change this???

Question

Let me know your thoughs.

Answer 1

stop carbon emisions, pollution etc etc etc, recycle stop using polutants, speak to greenpeace

Answer 2

You need Al Gore to tell you this? Do you see habitat destruction, trees being cut down right before your eyes. You see people leaving cars on when they go into the store or for long periods of time. You see people driving humongous SUVS that get like 10 mpg when they could at least be driving a car thats not even a hybrid that gets 30. People in America are oblivious and don't care about the world. They care about money and showing that money off. I can't believe people still drive those SUV's with the gas prices today because of all the fuel they have wasted. They wrecked our environment and now our economy. Good going.
My point would be, be smart and don't drive these kind of cars, turn things off when they are not in use, don't cut down trees, plant them, etc.

Answer 3

I don't think that Al Gore said anything of the sort. He points out that global warming is real, and humans appear to be causing it at an accellerated rate.

Yes, there there have been many warming and cooling periods in the last 4.5 billion years. But, saying that does not mean that humans are not contributing to global warming or humans are not the major sources of global warming.

Hereis the choice we have. We can continue on and assume that our actions have minimal effects on the global, average temperature. If we are wrong, then we destroy our species. If are right, then there is another cooling period in the future (btw, the cycles are not 11 years exactly - sunspots cycle through 11 years. these cycles can last 10's of thousands of years).

I choose to see if changing our behavior can reverse the trend. It seems that the ozone hole has started to shrink after the bans on CFCs. There may not be a cause and effect. But, when we are dealing with mechnisms on a geologic time scale (read very long), then humans are not equipped to easily evalute the situation (we have finite lives).

Answer 4

I still can't think in terms that big. All I know is that each individual could cut back on the amount of destruction they are causing. We can't force other people to do what is right.

Many ideas have been put forward, and some actually into practice. Not all have been successful. Most successful have been the ideas that someone has figured out how to make money from. Recycling will eventually get into this slot.

Getting people out of cars seems to be impossible. So we need to make the cars more Earth-friendly: hybrids are working, so try to make another step and do the cars that run on water, and emit pure water. Could an airplane be made to do the same?

I used to like the idea of replacing cars with donkeys, but that would be a total change of lifestyle, and some people would not see it as a better one.

We need to find a way to not use so much H2O. (Yes, I know. I'm contradicting myself).

If we put as much money into researching this question as we do into researching how to make people buy more TV dinners, or how to sell toothpaste, we probably wouldn't have the problem anymore.

So, how do we make it profitable in the short term to come up with ideas to save the planet in the long term?

Answer 5

Well, whether the environment is dying or not, there really is no reason for us not to change some of our ways. Recycling isn't a bad idea, nor is being a more fuel efficient society. Start buying cars that fit your needs, rather then your desires - not everyone needs an SUV. There are many changes that we can make to be better stewards of the environment.

As for Gore - I don't believe a word that SOB says. He preaches changes that HE HIMSELF HAS NOT MADE TO HIS OWN LIFE! I personally don't believe doom is as close to us as he predicts! Check out the recent article about him - via the link below!

Answer 6

Political will.
Double the price of gasoline and avaiation fuel.
Re plant trees.
Manage water better.
Turn deserts in to forests.
Store energy better - especially energy produced by nuclear power plants at night for use the next day.
Develop better energy saving systems. Like LED lights that you can read by.
Mass produce low energy products.
Tax big cars off the road.
Abolish stupid taxes like income tax and the TV licence and tax only things with a high carbon footprint.
Make methane gas out of sewage
Make electricity out of the power of the sea, the currents, tides and waves.
Cut down air travel to sensible levels.
Try to reduce population and make things more efficient.
Reduce the number of civil servants by 50% and make them work for minimum wage in DIY stores and burger joints.
Make 2 jags Prescott walk from Lands End to John O'Groats - so he understands transport policy better and to stop him doing thing he shouldn't.
Congestion on the roads of the UK need to be cut by scrapping the stupid excise licence on cars and adding it to petrol. Helping people with off-road parking instead of putting traffic calmning crap and speed cameras everywhere.
Encourage people to work in home offices and make them tax deductable.
The list goes on and more can be done in other countries. Hurricane Katrina was caused by de-forestation and the weather pattern will become more and more unstable around the world - unless deforestation is stopped.

Answer 7

If he is so concerned about the environment he should have restored it to it original state instead of inventing the Internet and running for president.

The environment is more resilient then we give it credit for. At some point, the leaders of this great world of ours will take environmental issues more seriously and hopefully adopt some drastic measures.

Answer 8

I suppose we could all back to living in the trees and the Al Gores of the world might be happy but the monkeys wouldn't like it much.

Answer 9

We can develop sources of energy (nuclear, wind, solar, biofuels, etc) that create less carbon dioxide. We can sequester (capture) CO2 from processes that create it. Most of all we can conserve energy through things like better home insulation, more efficient light bulbs, etc.

But all that costs money. Even though the scientific community is virtually unanimous that manmade global warming is very dangerous,

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

some people still refuse to believe it, like some of the people above. Makes it hard for our leaders to move ahead with a program to head it off.

Answer 10

My thought is Al Gore is a dumb@$$.
The Earth has a warming and cooling cycle of 11years.
We happen to be in a warming cycle.
all this talk about global warming is just to get money.
He just happens to be the spokes person for these money grabbers.
Why you may ask? Well because some stupid @$$ tried to claim Al Gore was a intellectual, even though he doesn't have any documentation to support this theory.

Answer 11

Stop listening to Al Gore. The only good thing he ever did was invent the internet (dripping with sarcasm).