Are you part of the solution or part of the problem? What are you doing to help slow down global warming?

Answer 1

I give a thumbs down to all those people who are in denial about global warming. It is disturbing to me how people can be that selfish about giving up some of their "comforts" to help save our earth, and a better future for our children and other inhabitants of our earth. Over the last 25 years since people started paying attention to the ozone layer problem, and stopped using aerosol and refrigerants that were causing the problem, the ozone has started repairing itself. There is scientific evidence of such. There are problems with green house gases, and how we utilize landfills. As people have been becoming more aware, and conscientious by recycling, reusing and making an effort to help clean our lakes, rivers and oceans there has been great strides taken in healing them. I for one have watched the movie Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. I got scared for the future of our Earth and for my son who will have to grow up and live in the mess that we're making collectively. He'll have to raise his children, my grandchildren in it. I am doing my part by teaching him about being self sufficient, not using more than we need, and using conscientiously of the products we do use. Recycling is a big thing in our house, and we utilize "Freecycle.org" whenever we have something that we don't need anymore that someone else might. Only taking what you need, and learning that what you "want" may not be necessary all the time if there are bad consequences to the earth for it. I love the earth, and if there is ANY chance that human kind and it's love of excess and unnecessary usage of things is hurting the earth, I want to do anything in my power to help preserve it.

Answer 2

i'm nonetheless waiting for overpopulation and acid rain to ruin the Earth like dictated by applying people who're not likely scientists yet take "universal activity" interior the ecosystem and earth. So till Acid Rain melts my dermis whilst i'm hungry because of the fact China has overpopulated i'm going to evaluate believing that international warming is according to danger, according to danger real. till then i'm waiting for 30 years properly worth of earth end failures observed by applying environmentalists. The earth had extra organic failures in the past the business Revolution than it did now. Had many ice an prolonged time, floods, hurricanes that make Katrina seem as though somewhat windstorm, comets that plummeted the earth, forests that disappeared from the earth shifting and starting to be wasteland, and platonic plate shifting. None of that became into brought about by applying Co2. in approximately ten years from now there will be something new that the earth will pass with the aid of and human beings are in charge for returned.

Answer 3

To each his own on the Global warming fact or theory. But one can (especially americans) do more to use less. The reduce/reuse/recycle is a great start. Think every time you buy something, is there a way I can use less, recycle, or do I even need it?

I think the problem lies in the American conspicuous consumption. What we do (use use use) is starting to rub off on other countries. But, you can't tell a poor indigenous person that they can't cut down trees for fuel to cook their food.

Maybe we don't need that 5000 sq foot house, maybe we don't need Hummars to Freudianly show our "manliness"

I know organic food is expensive, but that is a start. Shop organic food sales, look for organic coupons, go to local farmers market (hey it's where I met my boyfriend) Walk when you can, carpool when you can, bike when you can. It is the simple daily tasks that add up collectively.

As for Global warming and its truth? That is a political issue as well as scientific. It is better in my opinion to stay out of that and just try to be a better human and use less. Think quality over quantity and give back when you can. Think about others and the environment first, and yourself second.

Answer 4

That depends on what news story you read last.
I live on a farm. That means I live off the land. The natural way. We tend to the land, rotate crops and cattle to keep the soils fertile, and don't have to be entertained in the big city with amusement parks every weekend.

But if you read the latest reports, they're telling everyone that cows cause more problems for the ozone layer than all of humanity because of the methane gas they expell. Funny. They must not have known my ex-husband.

Answer 5

I have implemented a recycling system in the company that I work for, I bought recyclable plastic containers in which I have all employees separate their trash in 3 groups, paper, plastic, can & bottles then at the end of the week I collect them all and dump them at the recycling containers set out by different companies. I buy as much local products as possible, lots of organic veggies and fruit; I own a manual lawn mower (great exercise). I buy shade grown coffee, farmers do not add pesticides to this coffee and many trees and birds benefit from the process. I refuse to buy any type of fast food and cook 90% of my meals at home. I buy the Method products which are enviromentally friendly; from handsoap to bathroom scum remover it keeps dangerous chemicals from your body and the water supply. I look for new ways everyday to improve my contribution to making this a green country.

Answer 6

Nothing, it's the SUN

Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, was pivotal in promoting the coming ice age scare of the 1970’s ( See Time Magazine’s 1974 article “Another Ice Age” citing Bryson: & see Newsweek’s 1975 article “The Cooling World” citing Bryson) has now converted into a leading global warming skeptic. In February 8, 2007 Bryson dismissed what he terms "sky is falling" man-made global warming fears. Bryson, was on the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world. “Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”


Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far more consistent picture with climate, over many time scales, than did the CO2 scenario,” Veizer wrote. “It was the results of my work on past records, on geological time scales, that led me to realize the discrepancies with empirical observations. Trying to understand the background issues of modeling led to realization of the assumptions and uncertainties involved,” Veizer explained. “The past record strongly favors the solar/cosmic alternative as the principal climate driver,”

Answer 7

Being more resourceful.

I reuse as much as I can to avoid having to buy new products (and waiste time and fuel getting them). I find products that have undergone fewer processes (fruits vs. junk food) to be much cheaper, healthier, and enviromentally friendlier. I'm saving money and nature buy riding the bus to work. I prefer things that recylie themselves, such as having a watch that generates electricity through my everyday motions, or hopefully soon, an automobile with a generator so I can recylce a good portion of waisted energy. I even find Brooks Brothers suits and shirts from polo for under $10 at salvation army in good enough condition (and I even sell suits!)- it's cheap, resourceful, means less polluting manufacturing, and it helps the poor!

This lifestyle is surely enviromentaly freindly, even though I live it to save on resources (time and money, plus things most people throw away). For me it's mainly an economical idea, but many people (including CEO's) fail to realize that being economical and enviromentally friendly go hand-in-hand. Have you ever noticed that most millionaires are extremely frugal?

Answer 8

I am part of the solution. I have switched out about 75% of the bulbs in my home to CFL's and plan on continuing switching out 3 a paycheck until they are all done. I also sell homes, and my housewarming gift to my clients is a pack of CFL's. I am also educating my children's classmates. I gave all students in their class a CFL this year, and challenged them to change on heavily used bulb in their how, and cahallenged them to pass the word to one other person, and challenge that person also with the smae challenge.

I send my children on the bus to school rather than take them myself. The bus is running anyway, so might as well not get my car out on the road too. I combine errand trips. I don't just run out for one item. I wait and do errands until I have several, and then I make sure and plan my trip so I am on the road the least amount of time. Less gas used too.

Recycling in our town costs extra, vs regular trash pickup, but I have added it and pay the extra. I return plastic sacks to the store for recycling.

I am planting native plants as landscaping. I also do not use a gas powered lawn mower any more.

I also have my thermostat set at 75 for summer, and 68 for winter. I keep the shades down to help keep cold or warm air in also.

That's just a few of the many things I am doing.

Answer 9

I am part of the problem, in order to get to the solution. We should use up all the world's fossil fuels, then at least fossil fuels will no longer be a polluting factor.

Answer 10

I do the responsible thing.
I try to always recycle. I turn off light switches when not in the room.
I always consider the environment and where we live in most of the decisions that I make each day.