Gobal Warming..?

Question

Hey, I am confused why all of america knows about global warming (or most of us) and we do squat. What are your opinions, and what do you want to do to help. If you are from the ages 10-20 your kids will have to live with global warming, while you try to protect them. Is that the kind of future you want? Spread the news about global warming, and I will chose a best answer!

Answer 1

SIGH.... you just HAD to point it out.. lol... People don't seem to do anything about global warming... it's the same as people littering, yet almost no one does anything about it...though my school doesn't accept littering and after lunch, they make us clean up... Ugh... lotsa garbage from 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.... not to mention the high schoolers

~sixth grade person XD

Answer 2

Pretty much it is the same answer as to why we are quiet and let big oil molest us at the gas pumps, why medical costs are at an alltime high, why all utilities keep increasing. We have grown acustom to it always falling on the shoulder of the Consumer (general public). The buck always stops with us because we have no one or no place to pass it to; OR DO WE? If working vlass America will stand up and refuse to be silent anymore, we can change these things for all generations, It will take an revolutionary movement af All of us
rising up and standing together. JUST SAY NO is a great campaign, not just against illegal drugs, but NO more price goudging at the pumps, No more political retoric, No more
tax increases, No more illegal foreign trade, No Homo Marriages, No Abortions, No muslim in American Government. Yes, and No more ignoring Global warming.
There are many things we should or could do; but a single effort is ignored, but the American People Unified-This is how we get things done.

Answer 3

WHY nothing is being done up to now is easy. Special interests (mainly oil and coal companies) have blocked public policy changes. If you remember, the Congress is currently investigating one of their strategies: for several years, an oil company lobbyist worked for the Bush administration censoring and altering sceintific reports to make it appear global warming wasn't real--or if real, not dangerous.

As to what to do--we really need to have a national "conversation" on that. But we can start now with many things. Here's a few examples:
>switching to energy efficient technologies as we replace old devices and machines. E.g., replace ordinary light bulbs with the energy-efficient ones, buy a fuel-efficient car when trade-in time comes, etc.
>Begin switching to "clean energy. Al Gore is setting a good example on this--he is having his home remodeled and installing solar energy for power. Not everyone can afford his, at leas tright away--but this isn't just "spending money to do theright thing"--solar systems pay for themselves in time, and then save money on energy bills--and add to the value of homes.
>SPEAK UP! let your political representives know you want action--and you will remember how they vote on these issues when the next lelection comes.

Answer 4

BS! You are not confused, you have been LIED to. It's NOT real, you DON'T have to worry about it, we are NOT going to die and neither will our kids or grandkids, and NOTHING can be done about it regardless what anybody tries to tell you. The only thing that will get spread is SCHITT!!
It's a paranoid delusion that will go away. When you stop thinking about it, it will disappear like magic! Everything will be OK.

Answer 5

The Vikings got into their longboats and went sailing, sailing...until they came to a green and pleasant land, where they built a farming community, and called it Greenland....

Then other Vikings got into their longboats and went sailing, sailing....until they came to a green and pleasant land, where they found wild grapes good for making wine growing in abundance, and named it Vinland...

The Earth was a lot warmer then...

Now Greenland is ice and cannot be farmed...

And Vinland is Newfoundland, and is too cold for grapes, wild or tame...

As for Global Warming, maybe we're just warming back up to where we should be. In any case, I say,

"Been there...done that...it was good...let's do it again!"

How did we get out of the last ice age?

Why are the icecaps shrinking....on Mars?

Answer 6

most people say that humans nothing to do with global warming, actually humans do, look they started smoke from factories and like that...

Answer 7

this is the message i send continuesly

there are enough disaster areas in the world to come up with an inteligent analises ,we only have to investigate

POLITICS
ecologists and scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.

MANS EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

(this is limited to effects of people in the country,industrial effects on the environment and the internal combustion engine as well as the over all effects of cities ,is another story)

DEFORESTATION

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years
the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.
TV put out a series of documentaries
there are campaigns in the News papers
and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue




ON THE GROUND
go to the countries on the equator ,check what has happened in history
and listen to what is going on in the many disaster areas on this planet today,(and there are more than ever each year )
: i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico ,

i live now by the side of a river in Mexico where,in 30 years 5 species of fish have become exstinct .
and part of the year the river is dry this is for longer every year because of over use of water by agriculture and as a result of deforrestation.

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use



Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 8

Do you know anything about science? Where did you descide that it was happening, did Al gore tell you??? Please research before you believe the media.....PLEASE !!!!!!!!