Is it too late for us to have any meaningful impact on global warming?

Answer 1

Finaly Apple will take action




THE CONCEPT – " Apple-trees "


The concept is this: On Apple's outstanding internet store, ITunes they will set up the possibility to buy an "Apple-tree". This will be a non-profit project where the income goes to funding the project itself, aside from a small handling charge. (I know that this sounds bad for a commercial enterprise, but I predict that this will really establish Apple as an environmentally conscious company.)


An "Apple-tree" is an audio- and/or a video-file where (hopefully!) Al Gore will thank you for buying an "Apple-tree". He will then explain to you that by buying an "Apple-tree" you are actually buying endangered rainforests in the tropical belt around the world, which by itself is not enough to save the world but is an important contribution. Then he will give you a new tip with every purchase of an "Apple-tree", of what you can do yourself to give the earth the upper hand in the battle against oblivion. There are several enterprises today that are planting or protecting the rainforest, so Apple would mainly be the front-end marketing arm.



I predict that with Apple's impact on society, and how the conscientious consumers want to participate; this would be a way of getting control over the situation. In the near future people would meet at work, in school, in the neighbourhood and at home to compare the number of trees they have "planted".



This is good brand-building. Apple will make even more money while they are saving the planet.



Now, doesn't that sound cool?

Dag Skaug

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Answer 2

It is never too late for us to have meaningful impact on global warming. My Grandmother alway used to say, "Start where you stand" and I believe it. There is no time like the present to do all we can do to prevent the global warming.......i really feel so sorry for all the animals this will be hurting. Please everyone we have to do something about this right now. We can all join together and come up with a plan. But do not wait because if we wait then it will be TOO Late...............

Answer 3

It is too late to stop the current levels of CO2 having an effect - but it is very important that we lower all of our potent green house gas emissions.
We won't see the impact of lowering our own CO2 gases as they have an effect for 100 years but we can make a difference this lifetime by reducing our methane gas emissions.
Methane has its major effect over 20 years, not 100 so to compare it to CO2, you have to multiply the effect factor. This is called radiative forcing - one molecule of CH4 is worth 74 or so CO2 molecules and a reduction in methane has an immediate effect.
The biggest impact an individual can have is by reducing the use of ruminant animals. The amount of CO2eq gases they produce is greater than the entire transport sector; and that doesn't take into account the processing, refrigeration and cooking. You also need to think about land clearing for pasture - 75% of the Amazon is being cleared for beef, and the remainder for soy - to be fed to European hens and pigs.

This isn't some bleeding heart animal lover argument; this is about working out if eating meat is worth the damage that it is doing to the global climate.

Can you afford to halve your electricity use? the kilometres you drive? changing all your light globes?
...How about eating something sustainable instead? You can make an impact now.

Answer 4

What the first guy said is true. When we look at tree ring records it shows that the Earth has temperature spikes all the time. These spikes can last for hundreds of years. But maybe this spike isn't entirely natural. We have a huge influence on what happens. And by burning fossil fuels as excessively as we do ofcourse it's going to have an affect. And we can lessed the impact by leaving a lighter carbon print.

Answer 5

absolutely not!! global warming is a natural process the earth goes through. scientists have found that the earth has gone through many warming cooling transitions. but we need to keep our own contributions in check. what we do affects all life on this planet!! It's never too late to do the right thing!

Answer 6

NO.

You can do something right now.
You can go out and plant 30 to 50 new evergreen shrubs.
If everyone did that, the problem would go away.

You can re-roof your house and place of business with WHITE Roofing Material instead of BLACK.

You can demand that your local highway department stop paving the Earth with BLACK highways and use WHITE instead.

You can write letters and call airline companies and demand that they cease flying jet airliners and air transport aircraft in the upper atmosphere which spew out millions and millions of cubic feet of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into the UPPER ATMOSPHERE. You can demand that radio and TV stations look into the correlation between increased jet travel and the rise in earth temperatures over the last ten years. you can ask questions about how to correlate the increasing rise in Earth Temperatures over the last ten years with the number of rocket launches into the upper atmosphere. Let's get real about this...

Stop cooking with electric, and gas ovens and stoves, and begin using microwave ovens 99 percent of the time. Get rid of the heat and massive fuel consumption right in the home.
Change over from storage water heaters to On-Demand water heaters. Save electricity costs... Be smart.

Answer 7

permit me first say international warming took awhile to take place, and it will take a whilst to restoration, which i in my view have faith have been to previous due on that. Secondly i do no longer think the rustic of the international will locate yet another source of power in time to opposite the arms of time. besides the actuality that many imaginative concept have take place with the introduction of hybrids and ethanol >.> which i hear isn't that super because of the fact it nonetheless makes use of oil to offer the ingredient. i've got no longer heard a physically powerful plan yet those variety that they present day interior the PDF is from 2012-2050 its 2008 how approximately they start now and not wait until ultimately 2012 to work out the outcomes. Wait its politics each thing is sluggish >.> do you experience the sarcasm i desire you do, because of the fact im attempting to get my factor that its too previous due!!!! I accept as true with my plan and that's do away with the oil intake now and in keeping with probability we could desire to have a super gamble. to characteristic extra its the government the could desire to actual mandate and subsidies all vehicles be grew to become into hybrids, shall we start up utilising our money in a effective way. beside I hear it does not value that lots. Is my automobile a hybrid no, yet on an identical time i purely use if for artwork, i stay under a block remote from a commercial zone, i take advantage of reusable luggage while i pass procuring the entire deal i walk to my keep ect. you have chose to work out a difference start up with your self, and those around you it quite is my POV.

Answer 8

Not at all, in fact that's why the alarm bells are sounding now. If we act now, we can have a huge positive impact on climate change.

It's not too late, not by a long shot. We can make a difference, we do have the power, it's not beyond our control yet.

But if we leave it, it will be.

So it's not too late.

Answer 9

It is never to late to change or make a change. By making improvements on what we do in our society will greatly affect our future. Meaning if we can make a positive change now then we are going to have positive reactions. But if we keep getting worse then we are just going to have negative reactions and impacts on our planet.

Answer 10

Undoing the damage that has already been done or will undeniably happen in the near future will probably not occur in our lifetime, but we can stand up and stop the damages from becoming exponentially worse so that the next generation will have a smaller workload.