Why people in the US don't care about global warming?

Answer 1

I care

Answer 2

You can't worry about natural occurrences. The earth has had warming and cooling cycles for as long as recorded history can tell. Just read a little of that history and you'll understand.

I know you weren't blaming humans and other animals for global warming, but many do, despite all the science data accessible these days.

"Man-made global warming" is just an elaborate hoax, used to down-grade our lifestyles and to impose taxes on energy. There's a lot of money involved in this hoax, so the truth becomes more difficult to find sometimes.

Nevertheless, people all over the world are starting to learn that it's a hoax. Not just in the US, but everywhere they have freedom to find the truth.

Once you start learning about science and nature you will understand the truth. It's easier to see what the lies are when you read about the sciences of nature.

Don't be conned. Be educated.

Answer 3

You could accuse anybody asking or answering of not caring about global warming, simply because the act of owning and operating a computer contributes to global warming. As long as you contribute to the problem, you are part of the problem, regardless of whatever actions you undertake to offset them.

Accusing people of not caring about something just because they don't care in the same way that you do is irrational and tends to alienate people to the point that they don't care.

Since you are alienating people into not caring, and doing nothing constructive with your question change global warming, can I now ask why YOU don't care?

Answer 4

When I was a kid I was always jealous of the US having all the major oil companies compared to Europe...

Now, believe me, I changed my mind and I am happy we do not have so many of them.

Companies (and trade unions) in the US are allowed to largely finance political campaigns, it is not the case in other countries. I am often shoked in the US how unbundled politics and businesses are and other people from large democratic countries also feel the same (ask Indians, Brits, Germany, Dutch, etc..)


The US has a very large number of media and you can live your whole life there only listening to medias sharing your opinion. This switches the debate into an argument with nobody willing to listen to what other people have.

Several other countries have a press or journalists "UNDER OATH" which means they took a pledge just like MD to present things right, accurately and without opinions. As such you can read whole newspaper which are much more objectives and do not take "shortcuts" to simply support one or the other side.

The mass of information in the US is huge, the quality isn´t. As such they are much more self-proclaimed specialists and people having there own truth. And this goes up to the point of the arge share of the population believing in a lot of "conspiracy theories"

Also, proportionally, less US in the people go into "hard sciences" than in other countries. People have more of a "street intelligence".

There is also a certain hate or at least suspicion in the US for things which come from foreign countries. That is why it is for example easier for me to explain new concepts to Chinese than to American.
This fear of "foreign sourced concept" largely grew after sept 11.

Also a large force driving America right now is not innovation but conservatism. There is a certain belief that the achieved society is close to the perfection and should be kept as it is (a bit like the Arabian dream of the "Califate golden age")

Answer 5

You can't assume people in the U.S. don't care. Just because one of the apples is rotten doesn't mean the entire basket is bad. We might not be the "leader" in this era of environmental issues, but at least a good portion of the population is trying to make a difference. I don't get it. It's always criticism against the U.S. No one ever says "Thank You" when we do something right. Natural disaster? Country with no food? We're always one of the few nations to send help and yet no one sees that. Just remember this: not all of us are what the movies and the news show you - they need ratings and $$$, that's why they only show you our so called bad side.

Answer 6

Individual people in the US do care. Many global efforts have started in the US. I do agree that the US as a whole seems to not care but that's because many corporations care more about immediate profit than anything else. We, the public/individuals need to be more educated on what we can do and also demand from the companies we buy from and the even the companies we work for. I personally make choices to purchase products from more responsible companies. I'm not a radical about it but i make the best choices I can when I can.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, Americans (and all people, really) aren't that concerned about communities. We could all do great things if we stopped caring about our own personal problems. Are you really going to care about your CO2 emmissions if you're afraid of losing your job, or your kid has chickenpox? No, because you've got a lot else on your plate, and global warming just doesn't take a higher priority. The unfortunate thing is that by the time we realize that it needs to be a priority, it might be too late to reverse the effects.

The only thing we can do is try to counterbalance the effects by limiting our impact while we encourage others to do the same.

Answer 8

several reasons:

1)fuel companies have taken steps to reduce supply to insure higher profit margins, and pass the buck onto environmentalists, when environmentalists had absolutely nothing to do with all the small refineries being bought up and closed down. This was their answer to environmental laws that cost them millions a year.

2)because politicians and talk-show blowhards have turned it into a political sideshow of partisan competition, and some people will always folow what the propagandists of their favorit political team says.
http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/BPeiser.html

3)lack of education allows many people to become easy prey for junk science, promoted by the same scientists who claimed second-hand or passive smoking wasn't harmful, or make claims that other planets are warming while humans aren't even present, not mentioning, that their entire atmosphere is composed mostly of greenhouse gases.

last but not least...
4)scientist haven't come together to formulate a clear concise hypothesis on how the factors that influence climate change, in their own respective fields contribute to the problem as a whole. this allows those people in #2 to poke holes in theories and communicate them over mass media before scientists have a chance to debunk their silly claims that are eventually responsible for #3.

Answer 9

Sure we do and where going to solve it like we do everything ell's in this world . After all we are made up of all cultures not just one so we have the advantage to because we have all the nations technologies new people come here everyday and bring there ideas with them . That makes us one big thinking pot

( www.first-molecule.com ) Alternative Energy Company . Check it out this idea actually came from Einstein and he was German

Answer 10

Because they may think that nothing is wrong with that.Also, they may not care about it cause right know nothing have happen yet but it will if we don't take care of it and do the right thing.

Answer 11

The main reason Americans as a whole are less willing to act to reduce global warming than people of other countries as a whole is because of our media. The American media tries to present itself as unbiased by always giving both sides of a story. Thus whenever there's a story about global warming, they find one of the few "experts" who doesn't think it's primarily caused by humans. Therefore Americans see the skeptic perspective almost as often as they see the perspective that global warming is almost certainly primarily caused by humans. In trying to be unbiased, the American media is actually creating a bias.

Polls have shown that most Americans think there's a lot of debate about the causes of global warming. Since they think there's a lot of uncertainty, they don't think we should have to make an effort to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, because what if they're having no effect on global warming? Then we'll have wasted all that money and effort.

Of course plenty of Americans don't think that way. Those of us who do our own research on the issue and don't rely on the biased media realize that the current global warming is almost certainly primarily caused by humans, and we care about it.

There's a lot of blame to go around - the American media for being biased, the American public for being lazy and not finding out the real facts, American politicians (mainly Republicans) for delaying action even though most of them acknowledge that global warming is caused by humans. But those of us that care are working hard to change all that.