I'm 58, do you think I will live long enough?

Question

To see that all this global warming scare is nothing but that, a scare; and no I'm not saying that there aren't environmental issues, they are real. But, scaring a generation into believing that they should completely change their lifestyle because the world will burn up if don't isn't the way to go about getting it done.

Answer 1

I don't think it's that cut-and-dried.

It has been broadcasted since the 70's that things being used in mainstream consumerism has been damaging our environment and it's peoples. DDT, PCB's, Phosphates, aerosols, asbestos, and so on to name a few.

We scientists are educated and a learned bunch. You all expect us to perform great and grand things, but as soon as it cuts into the deep green pockets of the all-mighty American manufacturers everyone cries, pisses and moans about it and then turns their noses up.

So....a decade goes by unchanged....and another and another and little by little it dawns on everyone that there is merit to what we (collectively as scientists) are saying about this and that. So finally after people start dying, and suffering and things finally get traced back to what we have been telling you all you wake up and smell the coffee.

That it what continues to take place. Global warming you say...bah humbug. Well, we have been saying all along what we think IS happening, and what will happen as a result. Furthermore, we say......this may still have a chance at not causing a global catastrophe, and that this needs to happen and that needs to happen. All the while uninformed and (relatively) uneducated people that have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever still have the nerve to look us al in the eye and cry foul....just like children. The most technical things most people involve themselves in are Reader's Digest or Oprah. Wake up....we scientists at least stand a chance of having a clue as to what is happening around us and report what we find. We're not all Einsteins, but we're certainly not ignorant. We are why you have everything you have......technology, knowledge, medicines, materials, communications, weaponry....a friend of mine did a great deal of the work that went into the laser guidance systems the military started using years ago....the 'surgical bombing' as you recall. Very nice, quiet, respectable man. Without him and what he knew at that time, we would not necessarily have what we have right now, at this point in time, for our military. I'm not saying we would not have it, but he was instrumental in our having it NOW.

It's frustrating watching people sitting around flapping their mouths knowing full well they don't have even the remotest clue what they are talking about, and even when confronted with someone that DOES know what they are talking about they STILL are ignorant enough to reject what is being told to them. I am not necessarily placing you into this category, but you have placed yourself somewhat by your 'conclusion'.

Our planet is dying...little by little...slowly because of the garbage we carelessly dump into it. People are pigs. They are the only animals I know that are dumb enough to sh!+ in their own beds. They are too lazy to walk something to a trash can. Some lazy, fat-*** can't get up enough energy after that burger and fries to throw the paper away. I've watched them do it. Some lazy, vain moron throws garbage out their window on the expressway. As long as they don't have it in their cars it's ok, but it's ok for the rest of us to be knee-deep in their garbage.

So, it makes perfect sense to me, and it's fully within reason to believe that for all this time that we have been trashing up our country (American soil) and our planet. We are quite capable of doing it, and it doesn't take much of something really bad to toxify something on a large scale.

Take a look at mercury contamination. If someone were to drop a mercury thermometer in a classroom today and up to say 3 grams is spilled out, I am betting that the whole school would be evacuated on the spot. It's not THAT big a deal actually, but ignorant people feel it's necessary. Ok...fine.....how about something really 'legitimate'?

How about someone lets loose a little (say a golf ball size capsule of liquid) plutonium contamination, and it outgasses before it's contained? Say someone is transporting some of it in a vehicle and the vehicle crashes. Do you not feel that this little bit contaminates the air you'll be breathing for a while? Wouldn't you feel a compulsion to move....at least temporarily? How would you feel moving back? Plutonium has a half-life of about 24,000 years by the way. Ever try to get broken glass out of a carpet, or do you not bother yourself with such things?

Remember Chernobyl? Back in circa 1986? Not all of that nuclear payload was ejected in that blast (I think something anywhere from 10-90% of about 180-190 tonne (2205 lbs)) was ejected) It contaminated areas hundreds of miles away and caused deaths, and sickness.

Unless you live your life with total selfishness and/or your head is in the sand you should realize that your actions, tho small and on a local scale has great consequences collectively on a large scale. Small amounts of one thing can cause catastrophic effects on larger scales.

Can our ozone be actually being damaged? Is our planet in trouble? YES.........HELLO.

But what do I know...I'm just a physicist.

Answer 2

U are right the hollering fire in a theater will get u into trouble. The same here the CO2 is not the problem as the plants and photosynthesis have taken care of most of the CO2. That is the way God designed it to work. Without the plants the CO2 from the people only would of killed the world.

Answer 3

Look at England in the next 50 years or so. If it becomes a lot colder. You'll know Global warming is actually happening.

Answer 4

Global warming is a political tool to scare us. Every 10,000 years the cycles swing from hot to cold to hot to cold, ad infinitum. Don't fall for the propaganda the good-old-boys are throwing at you.

Of course we need to exercise our individual responsibility to reduce pollution. That is just common sense. But GW is strictly a tool for subtle mind-control. No I'm not nuts.

Answer 5

Ten years should do it before the worst happens, its probaly too late to change it anyway. China and the up and coming countries are not gonna stop pumping out carbon and greenhouse gasses.
Have you seen Al gores video, worth a watch !

Answer 6

Probably, but they will find something else to try and scare you into doing things their way.

Answer 7

58 isn't old to me it's to soon to die.

Answer 8

No.