Why are we getting so concerned about the planet now and not like about 10 or more years ago.?

Answer 1

It's called human activism. Our government has suppressed global warming so that we wouldn't turn away from our gas guzzling vehicles and our throw away lifestyles and so the politicians could continue to line their pockets with money from companies that furnish us with all the goods that are helping to kill our planet. Then, a few good people began to wake up and say, "hey, wait just a minute. let's look into this a little deeper". Sure enough, global warming is true and it is partly the fault of humans and their misuse of resources. So, we've had a wake up call and a lot of high profile people have begun to speak up about things we can do to help. So, I think it's the government's fault that no one has been more interested in this possibly fatal problem of our killing the earth.

Answer 2

It is a scam that has been perpetrated by my sorry generation, the baby-boomers. This bunch of self-centered, spoiled brats decided they and only they knew what was best for the world. The kickoff was the first "earth day".

Now what started out as some college students that did not want some parking lot or something built used the excuse to start another of the endless protest rallies my generation was known for to stop construction. Every protest rally the baby-boomers threw was their collective bullying of other people to force their will upon them. We could do it because there were so many of us.

So now we have taken over the education ciriculum of most public schools and colleges. Environmentalism has become the new state religion. All children are now subjected to the evnironmentalists indoctrination in every class, every story book and even in the movies.

So now kids are taught it is ok to have sex with anyone of either gender as long as you wear a condom but failure to recycle is a mortal sin.

I personally reject all of this nonsense. Sure, I like to have clean air and water. I think it is nice to have areas that are left in their natural state for us to enjoy. But it is now going way beyond that. We now have national parks where most visitors cannot access. In the most remote and bleakest parts of Alaska we are forbidden to drill for oil. This is shear madness.

But don't let the lifestyle police catch you reading this. It is blasphemy!

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Answer 3

"We" aren't. Thousands of us; mostly scientists, were very concerned 30-40 years ago. We were worried about slowing the rate of progression to technological and economic collapse as resources were wasted so maybe we could find an easy way down. No dice! The "Advanced" countries were unwilling to slow up consumption (not that Underdeveloped countries, given the chance to to the same, would have been better). Al Gore, now criticized as a sensation list, was concerned when he was a student. (Jimmy Carter, who gets ridiculed as an ignorant Alabama farmer) as nuclear
engineer and President proposed an energy plan that would have put us further from the edge of collapse. Congress, and the voters who wouldn't support him, wouldn't have it.Now--who knows if we still can do something. michael

Answer 4

Probably due to the signs of abuse making themselves more evident over the last several years. Most people don't think about their actions until the results are right in their face. Also, it has taking time for our abuse to mount up to something that is visible to all , even if they are "blind" to the effects of their abuse. Only problem is that we can't reverse this abuse, but we can put a stop to it, and move forward from there. It will take the majority of us working together on this though.

Answer 5

Developments on the planet seem to be progressing at an exponential rate within the last century or so, and therefore lots of changes could have taken place within the past ten years alone : population increases, increases in vehicles and other energy consuming machines, factories etc. All these will have led to more global pollutants and made their effects more easily visible and verifiable, except for the obdurate ostriches who still prefer to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that all is just business as usual.

Answer 6

You just didn't notice...

People have been concerned about the environment for hundreds of years...

Greenpeace has been running thier protests for at least 30 years...

The Sierra Club has been doing thier environmental activism for over 30 years.

In the 1970's the big scare was global cooling... and anyone who said it was bogus was derided as being stupid and unable to see reality. (oops... they were wrong... We didn't have a new ice age starting in the mid 1980's)

The media just plays up the environment when it feels like deflecting attention from something else.... like all the success the US Army has going on over in Iraq lately.

Answer 7

Well I was a baby 10 years ago. But people didn't notice all the changes. Also people were smater. They walked a bit more, took the busses, and didn,t all own a car. Hope this helped.

Answer 8

just happened. Heck the CFLs that are popular now are the same exact time they had at Home Depot 10 years ago.

Answer 9

Because the data on global warming has been accumulating until the scientific community is convinced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

Global warming is real, mostly caused by us, and seriously endangers the whole world.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407

This one is bigger than any previous threat. If it gets started it will be like a very large rock rolling downhill. There will be no stopping it, and it will crush everything in its' path.

Answer 10

probably because of the tsunami, hurricane Katrina and Al Gore.....

Also the cold war is over and the UN is a very important figure.