Three things to save the world?

Question

If global warming is really a crisis, I'd say we're not doing enough or even thinking big enough. Everything I've seen suggested seems like no more than a drop in the bucket. The range of ideas out there only confuse the issue.

If resources and political power are not an issue, what are the three things that we should do to really make a difference in a short period of time (say, 10 years)?

Thanks to all the suggestions, but my point is that voluntary actions like recycling and driving less are not enough. What are some "big ideas" that can make a big impact.

I'm surprised by how many people are passionately anti-environment. This is not an intellectual argument - not about who's right. I would say that environmentalists are probably on average a smarter and more educated bunch than the wackos on the right.

Answer 1

There are several big ideas to save the planet. Most schemes involve either reducing the amount of sunlight or sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Five such schemes featured in a BBC documentary 'Five Ways to Save the World' There's more info about the schemes on the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6298507.stm and if you've got an hour you can watch the programme on Google Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=286000425078890061

There are other schemes not covered by the BBC documentary, most are along similar lines (using algea instead of phytoplankton, firing sulphur-pellet laden missiles from warships as opposed to launching rockets). One distinctly different scheme - that really has been suggested - is moving planet Earth into a new orbit, one some 1.5 million miles further from the Sun.

I've researched some of the schemes featured in the BBC programme, most notably the 'artificial trees', and if implemented on a large enough scale this scheme could not only remove all our future emissions of CO2 but could also reduce existing levels.

Let me know if you want all the technical reports, projections, specs etc - they've been uploaded somehwere but I can't recall just where.

Answer 2

The global warming is about lunching CO2 to the atmosphere, so the three basic steps we should take for a ten tears impact would be:

1) Reduce CO2 emission
Use less your car, drive people in your car so the other ones don't use theirs, use public transportation, use energy efficient light bulbs, and electrodomestic items and so on, the less energy you consume, the less CO2 is lunch

2) Definitely Plant trees
The more trees you plant and CARE the more CO2 is transformed into oxygen. The more you recycle paper waste, the less trees are cut. i don't know how many people live where you live, but if each one of them plant a tree you soon will have a Forrest.

3) Educate
Tell all the people you know about taking this simple steps and help change a global issue one at a time!

Answer 3

1) reduce the birth rate dramatically. Just about all the problems are caused by too many people - pollution, deforestation, loss of habitat, global warming, and more. Less people means less demand for land, for food, for fuel. It would take more than 10 years to have an effect, but the long term, ultimate solution is fewer people.

2) Use less - period. Less fuel, less plastic, less wood, metal, and anything else. Figure out how to recycle more of your trash for your own use first, then put it back into the community recycling stream.

3) when you buy a car, get the smallest car that will reasonably serve your needs. One person driving a Hummer or Suburban or huge conversion van is a waste.

Answer 4

the world is not in Danger ,only the surface life is

quick definate solutions are

wipe out half the people on the planet
polution to have the death sentance
reforrest and halt all deforrestation

should fix things

(and this is not as radical an idea coming from me ,in 1998 an American statesman said in Copenhagen at a Bilderberg meeting that their Agenda demanded a reduction of 60% in the world population ,this may be the reason for the Americans trying to manauvre a global nuclear conflict)



there are less drastic measures ,but they wont make much difference in ten years and they are not 3 things but many but i will list some anyway to take the edge of the first part of the answer

Answer 5

1. Turn off your lights, tv, stereo, etc. when you leave a room or leave your house.

2. Walk -- if youre going less than a mile, walk it, dont take the car or public transportation. This will not only help reduce greenhouse gases, but will help reduce you (or tone you, if you dont need reducing.) Besides, when was the last time you walked for the pleasure of it? It's spring! go out and enjoy it!

3. Recycle furniture/toys/equipment, etc -- dont throw away the things you dont want -- we have enough garbage -- and with the poverty rate inching ever closer to my salary, I say donate it.

Answer 6

1 give the government a kick up the koot
2 give the government a kick up the koot
3 give the government a kick up the koot
example: their are alternative technologies, but here in australia that government wont change laws to allow the infiltration of these technologies. an example: someone has designed a electric vehicle but because the vehicle doesnt meet all saftey requirements its outlawed. example an electric vehicle on the road is only allowed a top speed of 35 kmph. only allowed to run on a top wattage of 80 watts.

Answer 7

1. Buy less stuff. Goods we buy require raw materials, manufacturing, transporting, and other hidden costs to the environment.
2. Find a way to lessen the effects of transportation: more public transport, greatly improved fuel efficiency, alternative fuels.
3. Educate, educate, educate. Students influence their parents' decisions, and students soon enter the work force.

Answer 8

1. reduce transportation's energy usage (currently the largest sector). start with yourself. walk or bike if possible. use mass transit where available. car-pool if you can. avoid buying anything made oversees or traveling there yourself.

2. use alternative energies. buy a solar hot water system. buy solar photo-voltaic panels. buy wind turbines. use wave, tidal, and hydro power. build a micro-hydro system.

3. consume less stuff. it take energy to produce just about everything and much more to move it. we as consumers create the demand and we can reduce the demand.

our energy usage has a momentum of its own. this momentum is massive and it will take much time and human energy to slow down this usage. it all starts with the individual and up to them to expand the campaign. make a change an tell your friends and family about it.

Answer 9

We are told that many will be deceived, and that they will ask for smooth sayings. When a person has been brought up to assume the Bible says this or that, then they read into the Bible what they think it says. When a person decides to study it outside of any influence, they will come to realize it says exactly what you have stated. Some verses can seem confusing, because of assumptions and punctuation, which did not exist in those times, it was added in afterward. A good example is when Christ speaks tot he thief on the cross and tells him " Assuredly I say to you, today you will be with Me in heaven." The context should read " Assuredly I say to you today, you will be with Me in heaven". Big difference, yet the latter conform to all of Scripture. In the same manner, the passage speaking of meeting them in the air, first is speaking about Christ and His angles. Second, it means " we will meet them, who are in the air ( as they are coming)". It speaks of the arrival of Christ, not our destination.

Answer 10

1 - Have all buildings/houses produce their own electricity from rooftop solar.

2 - Have all transportation run on renewable biofuels

3 - Produce recyclable products and packaging - (less plastic bags/boxes, components etc.


Good luck everyone saving the planet! From what I've seen djt is right. We need to get a move on before it's too late!