Who else feels sad and helpless about the issues of global warming?

Question

It's becoming more and more apparant every day, the impact of global warming. I hear of polar bears drowning because of getting stranded on icebergs and so much more. It breaks my heart and I feel so helpless, I wish there was more that ordinary people like me could do for the enviroment. I have always recycled and never litter, I buy earth friendly products, and even try to not drive as much as possible. I support greenpeace by giving donations, but I feel that this is not enough. I really don't think many people realize how important it is to conserve and really don't care. I see people now are concerned about showing off their luxury items, as if that makes them any better than anyone else, I think it just makes them dumber. I just wish everyone would work together in doing something about the planet and stop worrying about irrelevant things, because when they do realize what's happening it will be too late and then they all will panic.

Answer 1

Not me. It snows here in the desert of Afghanistan! argggghhhh!

Answer 2

alright....heres my side. I don't know what to believe. I am not specialized in any of this I actually work construction. I drive a large 3/4 ton Diesel truck and I wont give it up. That diesel truck gets better fuel mileage than a regualr gas engine would and it has so much more torque and power and you can tow so much more. Diesel is dirty, what else is there to use? Bio diesel? I dont know much about that but I do know a lot about ethonal. I do live in the country, worked on many farms as well. I do know that ethonal in Minnesota was 50 cents less than gas per gallon now it is 40 cents less per gallon. When it was 50 cents less my s-10 would break even on the cost to run ethonal as it would with gas. Ethonal I was getting 13 mpg and gas I was getting 18 mpg. Ethonal was cheaper but I had to fill up more often. What a pain, as for Ethonal in genral, who is making the money? Not the farmers. They dont get the money from ethonal, its all big corprate sob's who feel they need to jack the price of it up so that they can make more money just like the oil tycoons. As for me its gas and diesel no other way. Ethonal should be a very cheap alternative, but its not. As for global warming I really dont know, our records only go back to the 1800's and who knows, we have soposidly had an ice age and all that stuff how many years ago and came from apes and yeah I believe god made each and everyone of us and that the world is comming to an end soon, so as for me I am going to let it be. The world is so crupted its not even funny. Maybe we are going into a warming trend opposite from the ice age I really dont know and I dont think anyone else does either.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter because by the year 2100, the human population will be one-tenth of what it is now. The earth can't support a population of 6 billion and growing. The natural resources and agriculture can't support that many indefinitely. Oil will be gone within 50 years, copper and other metal mining can barely keep up with demand right now, agriculture land will be worn out and only producing a fraction of what it is now, the oceans have already been over-fished, we won't be able to produce new drugs as fast as viruses mutate, etc. It's only a matter of time... and not much of that either.

Answer 4

I agree...but we are not helpless, there are many things everyone can do every little bit helps! Anyone with doubts should watch the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore

Recycle, use Energy efficient lightbulbs, rechargeable batteries, public transportation if available (or carpool) make one trip somewhere instead of many, turn off lights and things like tvs when your not using them, buy energy-star appliances, plant a tree ( or any other native plants will help), reduce lawn size, keep your tires properly inflated, install a low-flow shower head, wash your clothes in warm or cold water, sign petitions and letters sent to politicians, vote for people who will make a change, join (and/or donate) an environmentalist group (many are free to join! I like WWF, NWF, and NRDC), dont burn a brush pile if you dont have to-they make a great home for wildlife, and much more!

Together we can make a difference...a huge difference

Answer 5

that's exactly what I ask myself all the time.
I'm in Texas as an exchange student from Germany and I just don't get why people e.g. leave their motor running all the time hen they stop etc. Or why they eat from tyrofoam or paper plates even at home.....There are way too many stupid people out there that don't care about anything but themselves. When we watched "An Inconvenient Truth" at church, all the young people were like "That's boring" or "I'm sick and tired of hearing that stuff". It's just sad that there are just so few people that actually seem to care!
And when the weather starts to get even worse all over the globe, they're just gonna whine and won't realize that they caused this, too.

Answer 6

Think about this: Both oil and gas are toxic and cause cancer. It says so on the containers even. Yet everyday we drive cars fueled by both. At a stop light take a look at the car in front of you. Its probably dripping oil. Which gets into the ground and eventually the water you drink. The gas gets turned out into the air your forced to breath and eventually into the clouds that rain on you... Messed up, huh? If it wasnt so profitable an alternative to gas would have long ago been found.

Answer 7

man made international warming become continually a political project because the medical evidence is weak and contradictory. The severe clergymen of the reputable mythology haven't any credible technological expertise to provide so as that they devise a race project to target to steamroller us into accepting their dogma

Answer 8

Seeing that the average tempertature for the world has remained constant for the past 150 years, not sure about global warming. Also the environment goes through changes, this is normal. I would worry more about pollution in the water then global warming.

Answer 9

You are not alone.
Hopefully more and more people will wise up and start thinking outside of their own immediate needs.

"When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

Have faith that we are finally coming around. That we are collectively heeding the warnings of the world around us and that the wise will outnumber the ignorant.

Answer 10

While people like you are helping the earth, the only thing that's going to shake our societies and governments out of killing the earth is a revolution; someone to take charge and be a pro-earth dictator! I vote for you!