What have you done to prevent Global Warming?

Question

Everybody gives advice about what to do and what no to do, but, honestly, what have you done to prevent the extinction of mankind?

I'm not saying that one person alone can avert the Global Warming. And I don't think that it is all just a hype to get the money into research, if it is, why the heck were the 10 hottest years of earth - as we know it - during the last 14 years...

Answer 1

I stopped using aerosol cans...

Answer 2

If you go into yahoo answers search engine and look up global warming and/or atmospheric pollution, you will find many reasons why the whole theory is complete BS!
There are many questions there that 'tree huggers' have never answered!! Why? Because there are no answers!!
Hottest 10 years ever recorded?? So what, what happened in 1912? not a lot of cars and planes about then were there??
How long has the earths temperature been recorded?? not a lot of people were sticking thermometers up the poles in1700 to see if the ice caps were melting!
All tosh, if you think that shoving money into the governments hands will do anything except line some ones pocket, then keep up the good work, maybe some of it will come my way??
The earth is millions of years old, measuring temperatures for a hundred years or so proves absolutely nothing over a span of millions!!

Answer 3

Is there really much that we, the little people, can really do? Personally I have turned down my thermostat for my central heating and I use the energy saving lightbulbs. I switch off as many plug sockets as possible when not in use. I try not to use my car for short journeys and I try not to use too many carrier bags when I go food shopping. Those that I do take I reuse. I recycle what the local council will accept in their recycle bags and I take my glass to the bottle bank every couple of months. Some people may not think it's much and others may think oh I can't be bother with that but really it isn't a lot and it's quite easy to do. I don't know what else I can realistically do that doesn't involve spending a shed load of money. I'm not a big earner.

Answer 4

I gave up trying to run a car. It wasn't all to do with global warming, I have to admit. I am also broke. But I can feel a little better about things if I re-learn how to ride a bike. (Sounds of wind howling outside my house, rain slashing away at the windows, and I'm thinking of riding a BIKE???) And speaking of house, my central heating is set to come on just before the teeth start chattering. Does mankind really deserve this much sacrifice? At least I'm less in debt.

Answer 5

I am very sorry to say, not much. I don't live extravagantly as I am a student and I hope to retain the same small ecological footprint once I make more money.
I wanted to go around turning all the monitors off standby in the offices I was a cleaning supervisor for this summer, but there would have been so many compliants about us touching their stuff.
I haven't gone to McDonald's since I read Fast Food Nation several years ago and try and get everyone I know to not go to Tesco. That's about it. x

Answer 6

When the majority of people who have replied so far realise how wrong they have been, probably with their dying breath, it will be th eloudest noise the world has ever heard.

You are absolutely right, one person cannot reverse the damage done, maybe it is already too late, but millions and millions each doing their bit may just make the difference.

I tend to do the simple things;
turning off lights and electrical goods when they are not being used
buying locally sourced food whenever possible
only buying what I need, not what I want.
recycling where possible

Answer 7

1) Developed the world's largest potential carbon store: glacial clathrate storage.
2) Worked out a cheap method for capturing carbon dioxide directly from atmosphere so that climate change can be reversed.

Why is this not happening now? Air capture falls outside of the Kyoto protocol. It is impossible to create an income stream to pay for the work as a result. Three years ago I worked out our company could make Britain carbon neutral for £100 per person per year. It would be more now as fuel is more expensive. I approached the Carbon Exchange but they said my pilot project would capture so much carbon that the carbon market would collapse. It has been most frustrating.

Answer 8

I cycle 23 miles to work 3 tI'mes a week and then 23 miles back even though I have a perfectly good BMW sat in the drive. They all think im mad, but I feel better physically and morally. And I can eat like theres no tomorrow.

(Plus a fully double glassed house, 140mm of loft insulation, a new combi boiler and a thermostat set at 19C + don't leave lights turned on when you don't need them)

I could go on.

Answer 9

What's all this talk about global warming. The Earth is in the icy grips of glaciation. Typically the Earth's history has little evidence of ice, even at the polar regions. So let's continue burning fossil fuels and raise the thermostat to its more normal temperature. Then we can all live in a muggy swamp environment.

Answer 10

I do try to be environmentally friendly, but it doesn't always go according to plan.

I do my recycling, have a solar panel, water butts, etc. But unfortunately I live in a rural area which means that public transport is none existent, so i am forced to drive almost everywhere (I have a micra not a Chelsea tractor before you ask).

On the plus side, did you know that cow farting causes more methane in the atmosphere than decaying rubbish in landfills (it must be true it was on the BBC earth quiz a few months ago...)

Answer 11

Obviously, solutions can only come from research. Therefore, we should greatly increase research funding on the issue.

In addition, it is instrumental to educate public opinion and policy-makers on Global Warming. My tiny contribution has been to raise awareness through the following question, which I invite you to read and answer:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnEwusgLTCk33dlOFos7og8gBgx.?qid=20060921133043AAoraiA