Does Anyone Care About Mother Earth?

Question

One of the biggest issues in today's news, Global Warming!

The world is changing, are we really ready to do what is necessary to try to stop the effects of this. Would you stop using your car to save endangered animals. Even Hollywood isn't that self rightious.
Would you stop working at your factory because of the smoke that is produced from running all the machines in that factory.
Would you plant your own garden, to save money and gas by doing this yourself. Plant a tree every year. Not only giving off oxygen but helping the environment.
What would you sacrfice to save Mother Earth?
What would you really give up? What are you ready to give up?
How would you help with this major issue?
Do you care about Mother Earth, and do you do things to help this situation now?

Lets be serious, this is a serious issue? Please no silly answers.

On note, No I don't use a car. I can walk to the store just fine. I also compost and grow my own veggies and flowers. We also recycle. I use old goods to make new and sew old things to make new things.

Answer 1

This is a very good question and to answer your specific question about 'does anyone care about mother earth'. The answer is yes, a great many people do. Those who 'don't care' make a lot of noise for a relatively small number of people.

In one of the most recent poles conducted 82% of Americans consider global warming to be a serious issue, 10% don't and 8% had no opinion or didn't answer. Globally the figure is 94% of people are concerned about global warming. These figures are rising all the time.

That's the good news - pretty much everyone is at least aware of the problem. The bad news is that not so many are doing anything about it.

But... let me change the subject slightly if I may.

A lot of media reporting over dramatises the effects of global warming. It is a problem, it does need addressing but we're not all going to die because of it. One area which receives very little media coverage is the work that's ongoing to find solutions to mitigate global warming, these schemes are looking at two distinct areas - reducing sunlight and removing carbon dioxide from our atmosphere.

One of the frontrunners, and my personal favourite, is a kind of 'carbon scrubber', similar to scrubbers that clean pollutants from chimney stack emissions but on a larger scale. These would effectively be artificial trees, one 'tree' alone could recover 90,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year - about the same as the emissions from 20,000 cars. With enough of these 'trees' it would be possible to not only negate our carbon emissions but begin to reduce CO2 levels.

But... these schemes are a long way off, typically 20 to 30 years away (some could be 50 to 100 years). Whilst they may save us in the long run the big question is - will they save us in time. There is a 'tipping point', once we go beyond this the damage we are causing will be irreversible. The problem is that we don't know how far from the tipping point we are - there are mixed opinions with some predicting it's a long way off (50+ years), some think it's much closer (within 10 years), a few think we may have already reached it. The average seems to be in the 20 to 30 year region.

It would be too risky to hope we can develop technologies to clean up the atmopshere before any permenant damage is done. The responsible approach would seem to be to buy ourselves some time by taking action now to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Some countries are addressing this issue more seriously than others. In the UK (where I am) the government has, for several years, had schemes that provide tax benefits for environmentally friendly vehicle and fuel use - the most environmentally friendly fuel is about half the cost of ordinary fuel. Grants are provided for insulation, discounts for installing energy efficient appliances etc.

Fortunatley there are more and more individuals, organisations and governemnts that are taking steps to reduce emissions and as more people realise that it's not necessary to make any radical changes and it's not about imposing new taxes and financial penalties then I think more people will take action.

Answer 2

Of course, a lot of people care.

Some of the things my family does:
1. Walk to places that are in a reasonable distance; combine trips on other places.
2. Recycle, compost, don't buy stuff.
3. No lawn chemicals.
4. Use a reasonable car.
5. Leave furnace and air conditioner off a lot.
6. Made a solar oven on a lark, but it was so easy that we cook in it sometimes.
7. Have a yard full of trees. Plant native species for insects and birds to use.
8. Don't care about fashion, just keep wearing my same clothes. Sometimes make new things out of old things.

Answer 3

Of course people care. I do. What can we do? Seriously or out of some personal guilt?

The cheapest and fastest short-run strategy I've found is the so-called "Geritol Effect" - see link below...

Phytoplankton produces 98% of the world's oxygen but it's been dying back in recent decades. It's like deforestation on a larger scale.

Seeding the areas of the ocean where it grows with iron can restore that lost production for a reasonable cost. And the plankton can be harvested optimally and converted to "biopetroleum" for MUCH less than the current cost of fossil petroleum.

Read up! It's good stuff...




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Answer 4

oxygen isn't a problem, the huge amount of energy waste that occurs in homes and the typical idiots everywhere who are ignorant about that subject, the millions of old factory's that are still in use even though they release 10x the amount of chemicals into the air that a modern efficient factory would release, the large amount of people who don't care and don't do anything is the problem. One thing that people can do now is to at least switch to flourescent light bulbs. anyone can do it and (for all the snobby tightwads who only care aobut saving a buck) it saves money. Go to the internet and search for "Weebl Forums Bulbasaur" it is a great motive and it shows that even though one household changing to flourescent (rather than candescent) light bulbs isn't much of a diffrence millions of households doing it is.

p.s. do you get the pun yet? BULBasaur. hehe

Answer 5

I do care about the environment alot actually. I let people now that we are killing the planet. The problem I always run into is most common people today dont have the money to change there lives. Like buying light bulbs and such. I convinced my family to recycle but thats all i got out of them. They dont care to much about it, it's not there problem. I am 18 years old and I want my kids and my grand kids not to have to worry about the environment. I have posted blogs and bulletins trying to get people aware of the problem. So yes I do care about the environment.

Answer 6

What little the individual can do is miniscule compared to the whole problem. Nations are going to have to move on this. It means a radical alteration of life styles. A retreat to more simpler times and at the same time more innovation by technology.

Answer 7

There are a few people that actually do care by living in accordance with nature.
But consider once you buy anything from a store, use electricity, drink tap water,flush a toliet, drive a car, even live in a building, your contradicting that ideology and participating in the pillage of the environment.

Answer 8

1st Let's get one thing clear! Unless you are the same type of person who believes in little green men from Mars you know that global warming is fiction. With that known your question does not make sense. We do not need to give up anything. In fact if we spend money to fight global warming or to fight the little green men invading from Mars we are dooming about 2,000 children to deaath per day due to money spent on nonsense. Instead we as civilized human beings made by God have an obligation to improve our economy not just to help ourselves but to help others. These are step that need to be taken to improve the economy and save lives.
1 Repeal all taxes on gasoline and fuel products.
2 Stop wasting money on public transportation. Public transportation is not practical. It cannot pick me up exactly when I want ot go someplace and bring me back when I want to come back. Also this is a step backwards and the money wasted can be used for better purposes.
3. Do away with subsidies. If a product such corn ethynol is good it should be able to be sold without help from the gov't
If we ever wish to become a civilized world politicians will stop trying to take us back to the middle ages.
I can't believe that there are so many uneducated people in this world who can fall for this hoax called global warming. We have an obligation given to us by an Almighty God to improve society and not take it backwards. God can do all things but one thing He did not do was give man/women the ability to destroy the earth. I do not have a problem with people living like the Amish. Just do NOT force your lifestyle onto everyone else. Take that back when your lifestyle is nuts and ruins the economy which dooms 2,000 kids in developing countries a day to die becuase of a lack of food I do care. Spending billions of dollars or euros to protect us from something that is a hoax is no better than spending that money to protect us from the invading armies of Martians expected by the year 2010.

Answer 9

The planet has experienced far larger climate shifts in the past and managed just fine, I seriously doubt "mother earth" needs our help.

Answer 10

It's not too late to help mother earth. All we have to do is be more conscientious about what we do in our daily lives, such as conserving natural resources. People don't think about how they use the slowly dwindling natural resources, such as gasoline. We just need to think about how we use the natural resources.