I feel disempowered; what can we actually do?
2006-11-17 01:02:17 · 4 answers · asked by jackalus 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Join the club. As an individual I agree that it seems useless . I watched a special the other night, did you know that the same "experts" that big business is using to refute the majority of scientists concerning global warming are some of the same "experts" that the tobacco companies used to refute the link between cancer and tobacco? One of them still insists that second hand smoke is okay. The media in an attempt to portray both sides of the global warming debate have the public fooled into thinking there is no consensus and that the scientific community is divided. The reality is , these "experts" are paid by companies like Exxon and within the scientific community, there is no debate. Even within the Bush administration, among others, because global warming sounds so dangerous, they refer to it as "climate change". And portray voluntary standards as the way to go. I could go on but you get the drift. Do what you can to help, walk to the corner store, carpool to work, use energy efficient appliances. If that is all an individual can do and every individual did it.. Problem solved.
2006-11-17 01:58:22 · answer #1 · answered by Bob D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We could turn it around if everyone would stop complaining, and learn real alturnatives and then do something about it, the solutions are here if one will only look and learn
2006-11-17 13:27:54 · answer #2 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why we have governments, to do the things that we can't do as individuals.
2006-11-17 09:33:55 · answer #3 · answered by domangelo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop driving your fossil fuel powered car.
2006-11-17 10:37:37 · answer #4 · answered by commonsense 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋