Global Warming Prevention Help?

Question

What is the best idea to help prevent global warming that will cause the most impact on the world?

Answer 1

there are a lot of things that we can ALL do (rather than leaving it in the hands of business or governments) to slow and eventually make better our individual contribution to the problem. Here's a list of things you can do that won't cost a lot but WILL have a cumulative impact.

1. Eat organic / locally grown foods...stops the production of more harmful chemicals, cuts down on transport costs and it's better for you as well! Also, make sure that the eggs you buy aren't from a battery farm!

2.Try going vegetarian as well...cows and cow farming is a big environmental / ethical nasty. I read a report recently that suggests that cows farting accounts for 3 times the amount of emmissions that cars do!!!

3. Buy ethical and fair trade goods. This helps increase the poorer nations citizen's basic wealth which in turn helps them to afford to achieve these kinds of changes as well!

4. Try to break your addiction to your motor car. These beasts are one of the worst things for the environment that we've ever had the misfortune to deal with!!! Try using public transport or ride places you'd normally drive to.

5. Use low energy light bulbs in your home. Consider buying high efficiency appliances (fridges etc.). Use gas to cook toast and heat water - toasters and kettles are huge consumers of power!

6. When it gets cold, put another jumper / sweater and thermal leggings on instead of switching on your heater.

7. Turn your television off at the wall at night, rather than leaving it on standby. This simple procedure can stop about 40kg. of CO2 getting into the atmosphere every year.

8. Consider buying "green" power from your energy supplier. It's not really "green" per se, but the premium you pay is used to subsidise people who are building sustainable homes and installing solar or wind generation equipment. The power so created is fed back into the main grid. If you can't, ask your power company "why not?"

9. Go see your local politicians and question them about what they're doing in parliament to affect change. Tell them that you're worried and that their answers will shape how you vote in the next election. It's a long shot, but if you live in a country with a parliamentary system, it can be a grand way to get change happening. Look at the Green Party and the amount of effect they've had across the globe since their inception in the mid-eighties. It might not appear much, but at least we do have a choice these days! "Never underestimate the power of the individual".

10. Finally, do an "Ecological Footprint" Test...it will show you how much you consume, based on your own lifestyle and residence...and then it compares that with how many earths it would take to support every person with the same lifestyle that you have....it's pretty scary, but very worthwhile.

Hope this helps!

Love and Light,

Jarrah

Answer 2

Education. Making people aware of the problems of anthropogenic global warming is quite possibly the best thing you can do for the environment. If you get enough people to care, the problem will be taken care of.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Turn off the sun, this will produce the most impact on the world and global warming will be vanquished forever! But we will all freeze to death and be unable to celebrate.

Answer 5

TAGP(tm) is the most comprehensive approach to global warming developed. It addresses all aspects of the problem:

Greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources (e.g. power generation)
Greenhouse gas emissions from mobil sources (e.g. planes and automobiles)
Political and social issues related to global warming.

Answer 6

Stop giving airlines tax free fuel. Build the infrastructure required to get green power to major markets. Provide incentives to industry to make green products economically viable. Tax fossil fuels like cigarettes.

Answer 7

Cut back on the burning of fossil fuels.

Next in line is to stop deforestation.

Answer 8

Turn off your computer, don't buy manufactured goods, stop driving.