What do you think about global warming?!?

Question

And are you Helping Fix it?

or Helping it Destory!?

Answer 1

I believe global warming to be the most significant - and potentially disastrous - event of the 21st century. It's sad that so many people "pooh-pooh" the idea that WE have to accept responsibility for how we've helped destroy this beautiful planet.
I try to do my part. And, if millions of us would follow suit, it could make a dramatic difference. Imagine if, instead of tossing our trash into landfills, we would all pledge to REduce, REuse, and REcycle cardboard, paper, plastic, aluminum, used cooking oil, newsprint, steel, magazines, telephone books, styrofoam, asphalt, computer parts and accessories, cell phones, glass and tin.
Imagine if we would all make an effort to help create awareness of how we're destroying the planet by clearing all of the rain forests so they can be used as land on which cattle can be grazed so that McDonald's can sell us billions and billions more cheap hamburgers!
Imagine how we could improve our ecology if we saved the mangrove forests instead of exploiting them as ideal places to build luxurious housing developments!
Imagine what a difference it would make if we all stopped driving $65,000 gas-guzzling SUVs and started taking mass transit to work, driving fuel-efficient compact cars, or used mopeds, bicycles and our own legs more often!
Imagine how much of the fragile ocean environment might be saved if huge fishing trawlers were not allowed to scoop up everything in their path and then discard all of the dead ocean life they can't sell!
Imagine if we could reduce vehicle emissions and smoke-belching factories so that the ozone layer would not be depleted, and the polar ice caps wouldn't melt as fast (which will, within 50 years or less) cause traumatic new weather patterns along both coasts of both major oceans)!
Imagine if we would all simply stop running the water while we brush our teeth, or turn the thermostat down three degrees in cold weather, or turn the air conditioning up three degrees when it hotter than Hell outside.
Imagine if we ended our addiction to oil and fueled our cars and trucks with ethanol-85, soybeans, used vegetable oil, or even water (yes, the technologies exist for that, but 'big oil' sees no profit in it).
Imagine if we'd turn our air conditioning off in the summer time and use ceiling fans instead to cool our homes.
Imagine if we would harness more 'wind power' or solar energy!
There's all kinds of imaginative things we could do to resolve issues with global warming. But we won't - not until it becomes a crisis. Then the government will REact to it in typical fashion: throw billions of dollars at the problem, pass some unenforceable laws, and sit back and say, "Gee, what happened?" -RKO- 05/13/07

Answer 2

Don't sweat it. After Islam succeeds in destroying the West and catapulting all the world back into the 13th century, we will quite naturally solve the problem. All progress will stop. Now, if that doesn't happen, then you have a moral obligation to stop living in an industrialized, high tech, petroleum driven culture. America is a dysfunctional mess. All this modernism breeds emotional and psychic turmoil anyway. Let's go back to nature. Science is killing the planet. Not religion.

Answer 3

helping fix it
i believe that the earth goes through natural cycles
of cold periods (ice age) and warmer periods (global warming)
but, i believe that global warming is going to happen years from now but, today we are speeding the process by burning fossil fuel and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere. so, we are just speeding it up not, causing it because i knew that global warming was going to happen, just not this fast.

Answer 4

Scary stuff.

Not global warming itself, but our reaction to it.

It seems to me that the evidence that suggests that WE are responsible is sketchy, at best.

Yes, I believe Earth is warming. But there are tons of other natural reasons that people seem to be ignoring. We just came out of the Little Ice Age 150 years ago. And people's blind faith in what some politicians tell them scares me more than the fact that, 100 years from now, it'll be a few degrees hotter.

Go ahead, drive a Prius. Buy carbon credits. Stop breathing. Whatever you think will reduce your carbon footprint. Personally, I think we should go nuclear. But don't expect to stop global warming. I see no downsides in reducing carbon emmisions, other than the blank checkbook people are going to give to politicians to make it happen.

People, please, PLEASE learn more about this issue, what causes it, where the data comes from, etc. before you do anything extreme.

Answer 5

We can't fix it. It is part of a natural cycle that has been going on for millions of years. It's caused by the sun.. we have no control over the sun.

But the good news is that humanity has survived climate shifts in the past.. and actually thrived during it. We'll come through this just fine.

Answer 6

I'm helping to fix it - I've studied it for a long time and am trying to educate people about it be separating the facts from the fiction.

On a hands-on level we planted a whole load of trees in Africa last year which means that myself, my friend and both our familes will be carbon negative for life.

Later this year we're going back to Africa and will install stubble burning stoves in three hospitals - advantages all round as they're cheaper, more reliable and each stove saves over 1000 tons of CO2 emissions a year.

Answer 7

If this is global warming sign me up. Much a do about nothing.

Answer 8

I think global warming is wrong, and I'm helping it...I think everybody should do something about it, if they don't the earth will give us a bad effect...

Answer 9

I ride my bicycle to work. I know it's not much, but I've convinced a few other people to do it too. I feel like if we all do a little bit to help, then it will add up and make a big difference.

Answer 10

What can I do to make my community more aware of global warming?

organise well publicized clean up parties ,talk on the radio
have citizan meetings
get the shools involved to plant trees and listen to environmental awareness talks,

that is what we do in Mexico

POSITIVE ACTIONS
print Tshirts with slogans ,hang posters all over the place (with recycled paper if possible)

classify trash take out all the organic waste and make compost with it ,the worst you can do is throw it with the trash

70% of contamination is due to organic waste that is mixed in with the garbage .
and it is just as bad in the sewer where it helps to breed rats and in the landfill it poisons the ground

and it is the easiest to take care of
o first of all we have to clasify trash at least keep the organic to one side ,like in a plasic bin with a lid

if you got a few meters of ground ,you only need 1 or 2 square meters in a shallow hole ,in the shade ,that you can wet now and again ,where you dump everything that is organic ,from toilet paper,bones vegetable cuttings ,eggshells,,dead bodies ,excrement ,and cover regularly with leaves to keep humid and to hide any smell
the worms will come and decompose the wastes truning it into beautifull blck soil for the garden of flower pots .

if you are in a apartment ,if you have a balcony get a big plastic bin drill some holes in the side and lid ,

and add a few buckets of sand now and again to put over the trash ,you should realt stir or move the stuff at times to airate it and ensure that the decomposition is overall ,keep moist

this rubbish does not get big very fast and the thing works for a long time with out getting full

got a compost heap in the garden for 6 years ,have added tons of banana poles ,and palm leaves at times tree trunks ,the mountain goes up and down and never seems to get any bigger ,the stuff rots and becomes a very fine black compost of high density

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global warming cannot be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,and being friendlier to out Environment cannot be bad

if you do any cleaning up leave signs behind saying who cleaned,why and ask people not to start dumping rubbish again ,leave a hole or bins ,in case people come with trash ,

we have done a lot of comunity cleaning and if you dont leave alternatives or try to work on peoples guilt feelings (some people actually have those ,but not many)
than your efforts are a waste of time.

these are Al gores sites
http://events.stepitup2007.org/............
http://www.stepitup2007.org/

http://events.stepitup2007.org/............


if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown 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´population

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

here are a 100 more ways

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