I have just read in this morning's papers that the CEO of chrysler has accused the Europeans of being scare mongerers in respect to global warming and he has played down the effects his type of product is having on the environment, yet with reports of New Yorkers sunbathing in the middle of winter in central park, and Britain's night time temps in Jan being higher than July's how can he say this......ARE ALL AMERICAN SO PIG IGNORANT?
2007-01-10 20:02:55 · 19 answers · asked by michael s 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Like here in the UK, most people believe what they read in the papers and what they are told on the TV news. In the US there has been a multi-million dollar publicity campaign (or propaganda) by the oil companies (Exxon-Mobil being by far the largest funder) to deny that global warming exists and that human activites have negatively impacted on the environment. This has been helped by the lack of political will to address the issue by the White House, which of course is run by representatives of the oil companies (this is well documented), so it is no surprise that americans, in general, are not aware of the real science behind global warming and climate change. Still, for a nation that elected a muppet into the presidency not once but twice, they get what they deserve.
2007-01-10 20:15:44 · answer #1 · answered by ammonite132 2 · 8⤊ 5⤋
I don't really understand Global Warming. It is a fact, it is happening. I do find it easier to believe it's part of the natural cycle, than that it's totally caused by humans. Human activity may be making it happen faster, but I believe it will happen the matter what we do. It's also a fact that it was warmer in the UK in Roman times and they were skating on the Thames in the 17th century.
I really don't understand why it's not PC in Europe to believe anything other than it's totally caused by humans and humans can stop it?
Whether Golbal Warming is totally man made, or happening faster because of human activity. I do believe we should do what we can, but I would prefer to know what the truth actually is.
2007-01-11 06:44:04 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If these greedy CEOs are able to convince people that global warming is just a natural occurrence, they won't have to spend any money developing more environmentally friendly cars. Anybody that really believes global warming isn't caused by green house gasses put out by cars etc. would have to have crap for brains. Note to Crazy Man. We didn't drop hydrogen bombs on Japan, they were atomic and we never denied it. If he doesn't believe we landed on the moon, he probably believes little green men built the pyramids.
2007-01-11 04:26:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No they are not pig ignorant.I know that the weather is varying everywhere but there could another cause of the changes and it
does relate to man's ignorance.Geological evidence in Australia
shows that something like this has happened before.You are right to be concerned about greenhouse gas emissions but the problem
as my scientific older brother explains is this.If you accept that this planet is alive and sentient we are placing too many demands on its finite resources and the planet is starting to fight back and it is fighting back on a huge scale.
2007-01-11 04:35:45 · answer #4 · answered by melbournewooferblue 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's amazing how people think the world's climate is a static thing. It never has been. Fluctuations in solar activity are the number one cause of global climate change. The polar ice caps of other planets...not just ours...are receding right now. Man is a factor, but we are down on the list...about #8 I believe.
2007-01-11 08:37:37 · answer #5 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not just the Americans, any boss of any big carbon emitting company will dig his/her heels in. Germany houses the biggest steel manufacturing factory in Europe which pumps out tons of CO2 emissions (or whatever it is that buggars up the environment), the European Comm wants this factory to change its ways, install more expensive something or others but the boss of this plant says no - Europe's emission only = 2 per cent of world total blah blah blah. We're all doooooooomed!
2007-01-11 06:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Watson (UK) 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Watch an Inconvienent truth on DVD this a must watch film which I think should be shown in schools so the next generation know what we are doing to there planet, with ever child on the planet telling mummy and daddy to be eco we might just survive more then 50 years.
2007-01-11 04:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by Loader2000 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What's scary is the number who are actually intelligent but don't bother to use it. Like the person above who says that one BBQ won't affect a large planet. That's true, ONE won't. If he was the only person to have a BBQ, it wouldn't matter. Just like it wouldn't matter if he were the ONLY person to drive a car, fly a plane, run a factory, etc.
It's that unwillingness to consider the next step of the logic that trips up many U.S. Americans.
2007-01-11 05:06:26 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Quite simply, the CEO of Chrysler has to satisfy his shareholders. And we all know that in capitalism, that is the be all and end all - of everything.
Americans however are about 25 years behind the rest of the western world when it comes to saving the planet. They have always had cheap petrol (for some unknown reason they insist on calling it gas when actually for most of its life it is a liquid). They wouldn't know what a recycling bin was if you paid them and their whole attitude is me first, family 2nd, country 3rd and the rest of the world - you mean there IS a world outside America?
Sorry for the rant. But when you have the world's most powerful country refusing to sign the Kyoto protocols, what hope is there for the rest of us.
2007-01-11 04:11:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Americans did NOT want to get involved with issues of WW2
until something HUGE happened, that being the PEARL HARBOR attack----NOW WE WAIT ONCE AGAIN, and I bet
it's going to be really scary, huh, oh boy!!!!!
2007-01-11 04:47:32 · answer #10 · answered by TRUTHSEEKER777 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋