Why is it that when the media talk about global warming and climate change...?

Question

How we have to cope with the coming problems is the usual theme, rather than how we can change our ways and become less consumeristic; wasteful of resources and polluting, in an effort to minimise the problem?

...It seem that the ideal that this is the way it is and there is nothing we can do about it, is the only thought-pattern being promoted. Is money really worth more to us than the natural world we live in? Where are we going to take the money to buy food, when the earth is too sick to produce any more?

Answer 1

Why is it the media have just signed on to the global warming bandwagon without a critical thought? Because it sells newspapers and gets viewers.

Anyone who looks at global warming with a critical eye knows that it is far from "proven." There are plenty of doubters out there, including in the scientific community. But they are ignored and we are told that scientists are in consensus about it. Never mind that it's a lie, but since when has consensus in science actually meant a damn?

Science is about proof and evidence. There was a time when the consensus was that the earth was flat. There was a time when the consensus was that the heavens revolved around the earth. There was a time when the consensus said that man will never fly. Scientific proof has proved these wrong.

Just in the last couple of days, the UN has revised downwards by 25% it's estimations of global sea level rise due to global warming.

The earth goes through natural warming and cooling cycles, including periods warmer than now, even before man had much of a footprint on this planet. Somehow, nature, and man, survived just fine.

Don't fall for all the global warming doom and gloom stories. Man has been predicting environmental doom for decades. Remember Erlich's Population Bomb. The world was supposed to be plunged into worldwide famine back in the 80's. Billions were supposed to die off because the planet could not sustain us. Did it happen?

No less than 4 times in the past century has the media warmed us about climate change. First it was global cooling, then global warming, then cooling again, now warming again. Do you sense a pattern here? We go through cooling and warming cycles, and the media jumps on it and tries to scare the hell out of us.

Answer 2

we have a greedy, self obsessed,unmeritocratic, unequal, material-want society/culture. This also makes us unhappy.
We'ain't that much smarter than apes to be honest.
Yes,perhaps its a cultural thing. Culture of greed and envy?

Notice how the social elite are already planning space trips.
How long before they bugger off to Mars and leave us dumb idiots on a toxic planet. Not that long perhaps....
Wat makes me sick is u can already pay for a payload of nick nacks to be jettisoned to the moon where it wiil strike and embed itseif 2m below the surface. Great, we've already started screwing the moon up. Nice one.
Lets be honest, u make ur bed u lie in it. You screw ur planet up you live on it. Hopefully in 2026 that meteor will strike and clean the planet of people, give another ape-like species a chance to evolve. We had a shot and we blew it. And we know it.

Answer 3

The media talk about the end of the world same as the religion tell us.
And nobody will care about it until they see distroy near by.
To me I used to tell myself, change my attitude to my seround, be good, be energy saver and be like to the nature, vegitarian is my way.
Check this out www.vegsoc.org they stop the killing of the animal.
Do you know chicken, cow and animal or poultry industries is the major cause on our polution.
Try to learn that, than you know everyday meal in meat is part of it that cause the world to go to the end.
Belive it by take action to explore this industries side effect to the nature.

Answer 4

like messing with super glue, it's easy to stick things up, but very difficult to remove them after the glue dried. To reverse our climate altering changes we would have to completely stop polluting and wait hundreds of years for things to only recover slightly. That, or find a way to trigger a tiny ice age

Answer 5

Awareness should be taught to kids from an early age, we all need to act and even if we just make small changes it can make a difference but people just don't seem to be aware...that or they don't care, which is a real shame!

Answer 6

You're right... I don't think even the politicians realise how serious it is.

Maybe we need a public information campaign, similar to others that have worked (like the drink driving ones).