Is it economic and practical to be 'green'?

Question

There are reports that next year will be the warmest ever due to glaobal warming issues. However, given the constraints that individuals (employees and consumers) in advanced economic countries are under on a daily basis, how realistic is it to be able to embrace the 'green' options we are given? Is the green issue and initiative being used more as a tool for governments to increase taxation and should we be accepting the changing climate as part of the human race and planet earths evolution and adapting and preparing for it?

Answer 1

It is pointless!
Not only is there no proven link between Co2 emissions and global warming
if there were then a few little facts would tell you the futility of doing your bit.
ONE of chinas open cast coal mines produces the same missions as every car in the UK.
It is a global issue and you'd be better spending you time getting your mp to raise issues in the parliments

Answer 2

I watched with disgust on the news that some people were trying to recycle their Christmas wrapping paper and were being threatened with £100s in fines because it could not be recycled due to the metal, paper & plastic it was made up of. These people were trying to be green, it was money grabbing and terrible.

We recycle as much as we can in our house, hardly anything goes in the bin anymore, all in recycling, and we try and use up all our leftover food rather than throwing it away etc. I was disappointed to find out that our council can't recycle plastic bottles though. I thought that was very lame. And they are fussy about you trying to recycle old Yellow Pages etc which again for some reason they won't recycle.

I do believe that we should do what we can to be green, because at the end of the day it is not a natural thing that the environment is changing in this way. We have done this over 100s of years of cutting down trees, (un-balancing the carbon dioxide/oxygen mix), using aerosol sprays, cars, and just a generally wasteful attitude. We shouldn't just sit and accept it. At the moment as I understand it it is still reversible, but it won't be for long.

Answer 3

Yes, it is economic and practical. It may take a little more brain power to be clean & green than dirty & poluting, but it is better. Besids would you like to be remmemberd as part of the generation that were so selfish that they messed up the planet for generations to come, & were responsible for mass extinctions, even though the means to live comfortably with nature were readily available?

Answer 4

I think there are somethings that people can do to be more environmentally friendly but a lot of things are really impracticle, I also think that global warming is a much lesser problem than the dooms day scientists say, it is also used as a scapegoat all to often.

Answer 5

Yes it is economic to go green. take cars for example, japan manufactures the worlds most environmentally friendly cars which minimises carbon emissions. other countries also has started to buy or pproduce car which are environmentally friendly. cars companies in japan are prospering with american car companies faces a decline. this shows that if every country is willing to introduce laws to only use environmentally friendly goods, there will be a big market for the goods to be sold and prices can remain competitive. currently technology allows us to reduce our carbon emisson but the common misconception is that going green is not profitable and it is a waste of money

Answer 6

I do my bit for the environment, bit I do think global warming is just due to the fact that Earth and the Sun are getting closer. The government blame us to take more tax.

Answer 7

It is for me at the moment as I'm a student and get everywhere by foot or by bike.
I think that when I graduate, get a job and get priced out of the housing market, it'll be nigh on impossible as I'll have to live somewhere cheap and therefore use my car/trains for commuting

Answer 8

if we do consider our future generations to be with all necessary facilities like clean air fresh water and healthy living they do need green efect rather than warming effect !!!