As a responsible individual, how can u help and prevent GLOBAL WARMING in home, in school and in ur community?

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again, I need more answers ^_^

Answer 1

1. Pursue vegetarianism, and prefer foods that are raised locally. Help make it easy for others to do the same.

2. Elect political officials who put the environment high on their list of priorities if they are also effective as leaders/liaisons/communicators.

3. Support higher gas-mileage standards; support gasoline taxes that are commensurate with the cost of its production, transport, defense, and damage done to the environment; and support "polluter-pays" regulations and adequate funding for their enforcement.

4. With every product you consider buying, take into account the hidden cost to society of producing it, transporting it, and returning it back to the earth after it's used up. For example: When buying clothing or a car or computer, consider how much carbon was released in its manufacture and transport; the quantities and types of chemicals that will be used to clean/maintain/fuel it throughout its lifetime; and how/whether it will break down when it is discarded or recycled.

And when you make a purchase choice based on the environment (including a decision to do without), let the retailers and manufacturers know what it was that influenced your choice.

5. If possible, work from home and teleconference whenever feasible, in order to reduce or curtail driving/flying.

6. Take advantage of solar and wind energy programs and rebates and get off the grid to the extent you can. This delays or obviates the building of new power plants, and possibly earns you some money over the long term.

7. Keep yourself informed, and keep others informed if they have an interest. Stimulate discussions like this one.

Answer 2

Being a responsible individual,one should try and reduce the use of excess hydrothermal energy like electricity and school and home.Make other children aware of the situation and tell them to spread this knowledge to others.It is mostly caused by the smoke from the vehicles and the industries.One should make an attempt to take any legal action about anyone using a vehicle exerting excess smoke.The government should look at industries if the smoke from them is being filtered and it is free of all the nuclear waste materials.The use of air conditioning and doedrant sprays should be minimized as they are the important factor that effects global warming.
I am sure this is going to help you.

Answer 3

By adopting the Al Gore plan:

1) Consume at least 10 times more electricity than the national average
2) Always take a limo when you need to go across town
3) use a private jet or fly first class for all longer travel
4) Pontificate at every opportunity about what everyone else must do.

Oh, sorry, you said a responsible individual, my mistake.

Answer 4

Use a clothesline instead of a drier.
Wash in warm rather than cold water.
Use a water sparing showerhead.
Shower in cold water (summer, anyway)
When ironing clothes, do several items when the iron is hot.
Turn off the air conditioning and open the windows of the house. Use desk or ceiling fans instead of air conditioning. Run the air-con two degrees warmer.
Run your central heating two degrees cooler
Put on a sweater rather than turn on the heating.
Walk or bicycle to school, work and down to the corner store instead of taking the car.
Put the children on the school bus instead of driving them to school.
Replace all or most of the lamps in the house with fluorescent lamps, specially those that are used the most.
Turn off all applicances at the power point, or unplug when not in use.
Improve the insulation in your home by putting extra in the ceiling - this is easy and inexpensive.
All this will lower your heating, cooling and power bills.

For more good stuff in this line see Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute website among others.

Require all grocery stores to have doors on their
refrigerators.

Replace your tired, heavy old V8 with an up-to-date V6.

Answer 5

Well, as a person who cares of the enviroment.....I use different ways to get around as in transportaion needs,such as i live very close to my school so i walk its only like 1/4 a mile away, thats a very short distance and its healthier for you and the enviroment. Helping with a community service like picking up garbage....helps clean out the enviroment,or if you like to get fun and dirty go help your community garden if you have one,planting trees will make more oxygen for the world.
Also it helps make your community ''shine'' as in beautiful.
Choosing your future car is very important to the enviroment too.Drive when you have to.Hybrids are very good and help protect the enviroment because it's electrical.But although its electric,electricity runs on fossil fuels which you have to burn,that can hurt the enviroment because the smoke is destroying the ozone layer..............so becareful what you do.

Answer 6

this is something that cannot be correlated to humans.
Please look up information on the Monder Minimum, and the Little Ice Age.
The earth goes through periods of SEVERE global shifts, sometimes turning once lush areas into ice,or desert.
While humans may have had some minimal effect, I doubt that it is enough, both in starting, OR stopping, to change things that are natural to the earth.

Answer 7

Since the dawn of time the earth has gone through climate changes. The same people today that complain about global warming are the same people that 30 years ago were complaining about global cooling. Don't just take my word for it, do your own research. Al Gores movie is an inconvient joke.

Answer 8

Well you can help prevent global warming by:
1.) Not driving your car
2.) Try to use less electricity as possible because when you leave a light on then you are burning rescourses that are making the light for you
3.) recycle

Im glad that you want to help prevent Global Warming on earth but its gonna have to take more than just one person to prevent it. Good Luck!

Answer 9

All of the answers given are very sound and I agree with them all. Foremost, you MUST care, make some sometimes difficult decisions and most of all, stick to them. Each one of us can make a difference if we make a commitment to do something about Global Warming. Please watch "An Inconvenient Truth".. You will be amazed and enlightened. After you watch it, recommend it to everyone that you know. Thank you.

Answer 10

this is what you do, stop making up stuff about global warming, because its a bunch of bull.

the earth naturally heats up and cools down, so dont feed people crap about how emissions and power usage are going to fry us all. there were no cars 10,000 years ago when the last ice age melted were there? no there weren't and the earth still warmed up dramatically, was it the result of 'greenhouse gases' of course not, its a natural cycle the earth goes through every 100,000 years, its called the milankovitch cycles, look it up.

there i solved global warming, happy? i hope so.