Will Global Warming ruin our grand children's/great-grand children's lives?

Question

Ref: Today's Observer Magazine - The Ethical Issue 2007

Answer 1

I firmly believe that by 2050 global warming will have ruined this Earth, unless we do something right now to change things. WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO DRIVE AROUND IN HUMMERS and $60,000 GAS-GUZZLING SUVs and not expect it to affect the planet. WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO ALLOW FACTORIES TO BELCH SMOKE INTO OUR AIR and not expect dire consequences. And, Babs, when your grandchildren or great-grandchildren are bouncing on your lap, wearing gas masks in order to breathe fresh air, how will you answer them when they ask, "Gee, Grandma Babs, you KNEW that global warming was a threat to our planet; WHY didn't you do something about it back then?" We have squandered the Earth's precious resources all for the sake of our own avarice and gluttony. Our descendants will pay dearly for our wastefulness unless we do something to stop it NOW. -RKO- 06/10/07

Answer 2

Global warming is here and it has started impacting our present as much as it will, the future. People in third world countries are more at risk, though people in advanced countries can use the economic power to prevent the impact on their following generations.
Ruin is for sure but can be prevented - one simple but ethically crucial option is to reduce bringing in more people into the world... unfortunate but poorer countries bring in more people and they will want to hence consume more thus impacting the future generations rate of survival.
Let's all hope and work towards changing our lifestyles now before it is too late

Answer 3

It depends entirely on what our generation decides to do. If we significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years and by 50% by 2050 as the G-8 proposes (or better yet, by 80% as John Edwards proposes) then future generations will be okay. If we put off action, then their lives will effectively be ruined because they will have to use all of their resources to stop global warming and deal with its negative consequences.

So basically it all depends on us and what we do in the next decade, particularly in the 2008 US general election.

Answer 4

It's highly doubtful that global warming will ruin the lives of future generations. Their lives are more threatened by economic collapse and war resulting from the over-politicization of this topic. Their lives are also threatened by those who don't do enough to conserve resources and protect the environment - many of them turned off by the wildly exaggerated claims of global warming alarmists.

Answer 5

Yes and no. It depends upon where you live and what you propose to do (career). According to one theory, Southern will have more meddeteranian whether, therefore the toursit industry will thrive in the UK.

However, another theory predicts for the gulf stream to be blocked of, giving us colder whether, making transport, agriculture etc more difficult.

Much of the UKs agriculture wil be submurged. Yet we will probably be able to buy from elsewhere... but will there be enough for everyone worldwide?

I addition, the climatic belts will shift, therefore, if they migrate they may be OK, since it will all be relative.

Answer 6

Yes it will unfortunately the moronic Republicans believe this is a natural cycle and it has nothing to do with the Hummers that they drive and it is all part of gods plan.

They are correct that the Earth has its natural cycles but currently at the rate that the earths cycles are accelerating is posing a serious threat considering how much faster they are causing warming and abnormal weather patterns.

Answer 7

Yes, it sure is a possibility. I strongly urge you to make a contribution at Co2Debt.com or another nonprofit carbon offsetter. Do your homework, and find the best one so that your children don't have to suffer for your generation's blunders. Watch out for those FOR profit websites with huge advertising budgets though.

Answer 8

I am indian, I worried same like u in my student life, 15 years back. But when i have read a good quote from a great saint, then i left my worries. That is like below,
"This world is made by a power(u may call that as god), It is his lookafter to lookout this world, One who created this world can bare all the burden of this world & can control it also. Not u"

This is only the philosophical view. As our indian philosophy always nature (in Sanskrit called "Prakruthi ") controls itself when man misuse her.

Answer 9

No.

But they will be poorer because the country has to shoulder the expense of relocating people away from the coasts, replacing what we lose to flooding, and revamping our agriculture and irrigation sysetms to deal with changing precipitation and temperature patterns.

Or we could spend a relatively little money now, reduce it, and avoid the worst effects.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

Answer 10

it will effect your life

we will be lucky if we get as far as grandchildren
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And it is not the biggest threat ,

That is the Americans starting a global nuclear war ,which will finish off most of Humanity

So watch out for the Americans