Why do people not seem to care about global warming?

Question

its very serious but i think people are not aware of the damage that it can do!!! people should start taking care of the world an dpaying attention to the enviroment

Answer 1

well mabye we can all help

how about sending an email about global warming, or handing out flyers? I mean if people have enough time to keep on sending chain mail global warming will be passed through the net too

Answer 2

We have 'fast food' mentality. That is the idea that if it doesn't kill right away, it's OK because we are in a hurry. Global warming doesn't happen in a microwave but in the God's eye, it probably has been a zap in under 60 sec. Most people are just not in touch with their Spirit enough to be conscientious about what we are doing with this world we were given domnion over. Most people live very small lives about themselves, never travel, never see devastation, lack, or destruction up close and just aren't feeling it. We are emotional, spiritual creatures... the logic argument just isn't enough. We learn to respond by experience. Wait til we start going to the grocery and finding out the truckers didn't have enough gas to get us our food last week. And the single mom next door is no longer getting by but starving her family. Then we might think of growing and shopping locally and reducing gas use. Every little act we do has much larger consequences. Our society does not teach this to children ... The United States is an especially affluent and consumer crazy nation. One which to the rest of the world is a very wasteful and vain but yet they aspire to be so rich and wasteful. Hence, the vanity and greed thought pattern transfers/resonates globally and forces more wasteful goods made in poverty stricken lands back to us. It might look like a Barbie world but do we really need another Barbie? When you are living in the palace and never get out to see the moor... you might think your s--t don't stink. The new is out...Barbie's s--t stinks too... even in China.

Answer 3

More people than not have what is called common sense. That tells them to ignore stuff that is hyped up beyond reasonable descriptions by unstable quacks. It also helps them to not accepting outlandish notions and to resist brainwashing or accept ridiculous ideas. It tells them not to worry about the many thing we cannot control or do anything about.
People never used to listen to quacks, crackpots, or the paranoid delusions of worry warts. They neither deserved attention, credence, or publicity just because they were freaking out about some strange phobia or nightmare. They were ignored and left alone in their sick little worlds.
The world is heating up a little every year~~big deal~~so what? It will go back to normal in a few years like it has always been doing for time immemorial. Ain't nothing we can do about it so why worry. You can't change, stop, or "fix" nature. Nature isn't broken but you can be if you worry about unnecessary unchangeable things. If you think you can do something about it, then do whatever. Just don't bother sensible people with your petty useless squawking. We aren't impressed

Answer 4

Because most people can't handle the truth.
Caring about the fragile ecological balances between man, plants and animals might mean having to give up driving their $65,000 gas-guzzling SUVs, turning down their thermostats in winter and turning off the air conditioning during the summer heat waves.
We've been far too comfortable in this country, which comprises only 5% of the world's population but squanders almost 55% of the global resources.
We're "fat" and lazy, and we don't want to have to be inconvenienced. Our sloth and gluttony will come to light in the next generation when our grandchildren or great-grandchildren come to us and ask. "WHY? If you KNEW global warming was a threat, WHY didn't you try to do something about it??" How will we answer those poor kids who will be wearing gas masks just so they can breathe fresh air, won't be able to find enough clean drinking water and will have to live with the stench from those landfills which are now leaching with all of our waste? -RKO- 05/26/07

Answer 5

Because all we have to do is plant trees that will digest the carbon by-products. Is that so hard? Quote:

The ozone layer is formed naturally by short ultraviolet rays from the Sun interacting with oxygen molecules. In 1930, British geophysicist Sidney Chapman (1888-1970) formulated the first photochemical theory for the formation and decomposition of ozone in the atmosphere. Oxygen molecules absorb wavelengths of light shorter than 240 nm.

These excited molecules dissociate to yield oxygen atoms that are very reactive. These atoms combine with other oxygen molecules, forming ozone. Ozone molecules then can absorb light between 240 nm and 320 nm, and undergo a reaction that produces oxygen molecules and a lone oxygen atom. The oxygen atom encounters another oxygen atom or molecule to combine into oxygen or ozone. The Dobson unit is the usual scale for measuring the total amount of ozone occupying a column of atmosphere overhead. The ozone layer over the United States has about 300 DU of ozone. If this layer were compressed to 32°F (0°C) and 1 atmosphere, it would be about 0.12 in (3 mm) thick.

Pollutants in the atmosphere may have a detrimental effect on the ozone layer. In the 1970s, scientists discovered that certain chemicals such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used as refrigerants and propellants in aerosol sprays are broken down in the atmosphere, producing chlorine atoms which then react with and destroy ozone molecules. Up to 100,000 molecules of ozone can be destroyed per molecule of CFC in the atmosphere. Chemicals in fertilizers can also attack ozone molecules and destroy them. A decrease in the ozone layer is expected to cause increases in skin cancers and cataracts as well as damage to crops and certain types of marine plankton. These decreases in plant life are expected to lead to an increase in carbon dioxide levels, which is a component of a potential global warming problem. In the early 1980s, scientists discovered a seasonal loss of ozone over Antarctica. There have been several subsequent studies intended to determine whether the overall ozone layer is actually decreasing.

Answer 6

When people are not affected by something they tend to ignore it, as in global warming or a war in another land, the list goes on and on. Because of this mind set, these people, whether they know it or not, become part of the problem instead of part of the solution. The United States government is also part of the problem-they don't like how the Global 8 pact bill has been written out-oil companies, along with other lobbiests, rule our government. Money talks and the rest of us suffer. History is repeating it's self.

Answer 7

Why should they, when the people pounding the GW drums the loudest are, at best, advocating "carbon neutral" strategies which don't even address the concept of reducing the excess CO2 in the atmosphere.

Close behind them are advocates of silly symbolic steps that merely reduce the rate of CO2 buildup, like turning down thermostats 2 degrees (hahaha) , buying hybrid cars that don't move unless gasoline is burned under the hood, and the stupidest one of all, "eating organic food", whose fertilizers actually give off more methane and CO2 than does the small amount of bug killer conventional farming uses.

And finally there are the "awareness creators" who still drive their SUVs above the posted speed limits, go to politically correct movies at big air conditioned and heated theaters and fly commercial airlines, all writing off their wastes and excesses in the name of "awareness", like thats going to help.

As far as actually REVERSING atmospheric carbon buildup, thats going to require some big time energy consumption to strip carbon out of atmospheric gases like CO2 and methane, and that energy isn't going to come out of solar panels that go to bed every sunset or windmills with smiley faces. Its going to require a serious commitment to nuclear energy, including fission which has been around for half a century and eventually fusion, but these days you don't hear a peep about those alternatives outside of a few people on message boards.

Answer 8

I believe that most people think that the major effects of global warming are something that should they will not see in their lifetime. Therefore the cost of correcting the problem is not worth paying. People will begin to be green if green is cheaper. That is what will ultimately save this planet. It will be one great game of the Price is Right.

Answer 9

Well, lets see here. I live in North Dakota, the average temp this time of year is around 70, and this weekend starts with a day when the HIGH temp falls short of 50. Its been cold all month and I have to fire up my furnace again will someone direct this "global warming" our way?

Answer 10

First, despite all the propaganda that you have been fed, there is no scientific proof of Global Warming, nor of any that is caused by human activity.

Second, there is climate change, and it can even be shown to be caused by human activity, but it, as of yet, can only be scientifically shown to be a localized phenomenon.

Third, most of the "scientists" that are commonly quoted as supporting evidence of Global Warming are not scientists at all, but politicians and business men who procure government dollars for companies engaged in various "scientific endevors."

Fourth, there is no proof that global warming will harm anyone or anything. What happens if there is global warming, which causes the emergence of a new species, but an existing species may not be able to adapt. Which species gets to survive and who gets to make that determination?

Finally, there may not be anything that can be done to reverse any trend, man made or not. Most of the "cures" to Global Warming can be shown scientifically to have drastic consequenses that will have to be dealt with. On top of all that, there is the law of unintended consequenses. What would have happened if 40 years ago the hysteria about global cooling were acted upon, and we bankrupted this country trying to increase the global temperature? What would our children think of our rash and stupid actions then? Without positive, factual, scientific proof of every aspect of Global Warming that has been discussed on the news of late, any action would be rash.

Perhaps if you focused on making the world a better place, such as alternative fuels, riding bikes, carpooling, solar energy, ect., without the hysteria of Global Warming, you would get more people who would care about such things.