why dont people care about making a difference in their enviorment?

Question

im so fustrated that more isnt being done about getting pollution reduced.
how about stopping to sell cars that are gas guzzlers and use more electrical and solar powered cars for a start?

Answer 1

There is a book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Unitarian minister Robert Fulghum. Reading it made me realize that peoples opinions, political views, wishes and desires, likes and dislikes were all formed during their childhood years. So look back into the early eighties, seventies, sixties and even fifties. People with mentalities formed in those years cannot understand and accept changes that are happening today. People don’t like to leave behind the happy world of celebrities cult, muscle cars , cheep gas, big sport events and trustworthy polititions. People will use any simple excuse(see answer No.1) to dismiss todays problems and go back totheir utopia, If you present views expressed in answer No. 2(as true as they are) you will be marked with the sign of “conspiracy theorist” and nobody will listen to you.
This, in short will answer your question “Why dont people care…” but you may expect a bit more, like “is there a hope?”or “is change possible?”
And this is up to us. In general people deserve their governments. Smart voters will elect good representatives. Uneducated voters will elect governments who are more interested in power and money than in making our planet better place to live. We have to change us first. Maybe instead of spending countless hours watching football and other garbage that the TV networks are feeding us, we start being more interested in real news(not necessarily on TV), and paying attention to real problems. Then and only then we will elect a decent and honest people.
Start the change with yourself and with people you know. Make it to your main purpose in your life. Try to convince at least one person and you will see how difficult it is to get him/her out of kindergarten.

Answer 2

Sorry, but as long as people are willing to buy huge gas guzzlers, other people will be willing to sell them. Here in the U.S. the biggest problem is that big business controls our government, (don't let anyone tell you otherwise), and some of the biggest are oil companies. In fact, Mr. Bush gets his money from oil, and am I the only one who thought it odd that a businees would be able to write off a full-size truck or SUV, ( up to $450,000 ), but not a hybrid vehicle. Was this law passed just to insure G.W. an increased income from oil/gas sales? Or were auto manufacturers complaining that citizens were not buying enough huge high-dollar vehicles?
Either way the problem is not the people it's the government.
Of the people, by the people, and for the people has become of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

Answer 3

sure i constantly circulate threw the rubbish with gloves at living house and in school and p.c.. out recyclble stuff. I finally end up lights furniture do the basics, carry posters around type approximately going green digital mail the princible of issues shall we do greater effective, placed a towel on the sink in my lecture room so we dont could use papper towels and save the trees, and that i only commonly talk to those regarding the enviorment. i wish i helped! Oh additionally posting on the recycle bin issues which could be recycled youd be shocked the flaws which could be recycled!

Answer 4

Have you priced a solar powered car lately? And to power an all electric car, you have to plug it in to recharge the batteries. And that electricity comes from a power plant that burns fossil fuel or flood rivers or dumps hot water into streams.

Now do you see the problem more clearly?

Answer 5

Economics. A recent UN report on the cost of doing something about global warming puts the cost (over the next fifty years) at $557,000,000,000,000. That is forty times the entire gross national product of the United States.

Answer 6

nobody cares because they don't think it is actually happening and they don't care because they think it does not effect them.
people are ignorant and we have to try to get involved and let them know what is going on.

Answer 7

its sad but you will be able to send your grandkids somewhere new to destroy