Does anybody else blame the major manufacturers for global warming, should they anty up and repair it?

Answer 1

How about blaming the major polluters first, starting with your average american commuter driving alone in his Cadillac Escalade, and how about putting a price tag on pollution (like Kyoto and the carbon markets are trying to do) and making pollution an economic problem instead of a moral one.

Answer 2

The first thing people need to do (on this and other issues) is stop with the "it's his fault, so he "Ought" to fix it" game. That accomplishes nothing.

Some corporations do indeed bear part of the "blame"--but so do the millions of consumers who walked past the fuel efficient cars at the car dealer and bought SUVs. And so on. The only real criticism warrented should be directed against a few corporations who have actively worked to block action on global warming (most notably Exxon/Mobile--and I mention them only because their actions in this regard are a matter of public record).

Drop the blame game--what's needed are solutdions, not finger-pointing and self-sjustifying sound bytes.

Answer 3

Millions of tons of crap DAILY into the atmosphere is nothing to sneeze at. Pun intended.

We are screwing ourselves over for a buck.
Shooting ourselves in the herd.
Stepping on our own ducks.
Cutting off our nose to spite our finch.
Kicking ourselves in the aardvark.

For the almighty dollar we're ruining it for everybody and everything, and people who can't accept it are three fries short of a Happy Meal.
Have a nice day.

Answer 4

NO. The reason of global warming is because people can't walk anywhere, they drive. That what causes global warming >:-C

Answer 5

No, they didn't know about it.

They will pay a lot of money to help fix their piece of it. But the task is enormous, needs work from all of us, and requires government to lead it.