anyone care?

Question

how come even though grown-ups know global warming will kill us kids in about 30 years, how come they don't stop? How come you guys still buy huge cars? Does anyone care? I know you guys might be dead by then, but some people might want to live.

Answer 1

I am 50 and care about and lobby for green living/Global Warming. I went through this the other day with someone who was 16 and was blaming 'my generation'. I've been using canvas bags for shopping for a while now and have yet to see one other person (any age) doing the same.
Big cars? They don't even make big cars anymore. Big cars to us were V8's.
Truth be told, although you don't say how old you are, I will assume you're about 17 and point out the way things were when I was 17 compared to now.
My mother raised all four of us kids in cloth diapers, she didn't contribute ONE disposable diaper to any landfill.
Most of our bottles were still glass and were returned for deposit. Bottled water wasn't heard of, and we grew up more with Kool-Aid than pop. I wouldn't doubt it if you've gone through more bottled water and canned pop in one year than I have in my lifetime.
Most families were just one car families. And there was usually only ONE television. There wasn't cable then so NO one had a tv on for 24/7. After Johnny Carson, it was static.
We were considered middle class, yet the average family in our neighborhood raised 4 kids in a 3-bedroom one-bathroom house. Today, that would be considered lower class as people want homes with double and triple the square footage that we had.
People walked more, rode bikes more. No one had computers back then; most didn't even own electric typewriters.
I resent someone trying to blame my generation for global warming. I am the 'greenest' of most people I know. And am always looking for advantages to educate others on how to live greener. I still haven't even converted the house over to central AC!
If you care about living, quit planning the 'blame game'; and live and lead by example. Advocate and educate others.

Answer 2

Fortunately there are many of us grown-ups that do care, we don't take the easy option of hiding from the truth or use what amounts to propoganda as an excuse for not caring.

There are a great many people that are pressing for action on climate change but these things take a lot of time. Many schemes are being developed that will offset the effects of climate change, if people don't get in the way these schemes could be up and running in a few years time.

Global warming won't kill you in 30 years time, this is probably the result of the media sensationalising things as they tend to do. Please ignore the alarmists and the skeptics and look at the facts instead. If someone tells you something about global warming then ask to see the source of the information, if they can't provide a crredible source then ignore it.

The world has already changed, it is changing and it will continue to change but there is no doomsday scenario that will kill us all off. Many people will be affected, many will have to adjust. You'll still be here in 30 years time.

Answer 3

Random thoughts my friends and I just said.

Every generation has its wackos to spread doom and gloom.

In the 70's, we were told that an ice age would happen in the next 20 years because of the warming.

Apparently the Mt St Helens eruption in 1980 disrupted the ozone layer more than the other factors combined.

I'm sure there are those who DON'T care. I mean, look at the people who live in polluted cities. If they CARED about their health, wouldn't they move to where the air and water were clean?

4 people, 4 views.

Answer 4

The effect of the cause is not immediate. Humans tend not to always associate things if the result is not recieved right away. Also, Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

We live pretty green, traded in our minivan for a VW bug that runs on biodiesel. Got rid of my gas lawnmower for an electric model. Replaced all light bulbs for CFL. I ride my bicycle to work. Not all us grown ups are idiots

Answer 5

We are. Do some reseach. Clean renewable energy is going to be the next big thing around the world. Huge cars aren't really the problem when we using coal power plants.

Answer 6

i really care about that and all these stuff that ruined our environment and i think that people should start thinking to use the sun power and water instead of gas and petrol and we should try to use bicycles and try walking instead of using cars as much as we can !!! and we should think and care about the people in other generations ..we must not be selfish ....PEOPLE OPEN UR EYES AND SEE THE WORLD AROUND U !!!

Answer 7

The parents is just making decisions that they may be much more correct than U.

Answer 8

GO educate yourself

here watch this vidieo

THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE

Answer 9

i probably will be alive for all that. so yes i care.

Answer 10

Another one bites the dust. Another student brainwashed by Al Gore. few scientists espouse theory that humanity will be wiped out in 30 years. Contrary to popular opinion there is a lot of opposition to the man made global warming theory.

Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv, one of Israel's top young award winning scientists, recanted his belief that manmade emissions were driving climate change. "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye.”

Mathematician & engineer Dr. David Evans, who did carbon accounting for the Australian Government, recently detailed his conversion to a skeptic. By the late 1990's, lots of jobs depended on the idea that carbon emissions caused global warming. Many of them were bureaucratic, but there were a lot of science jobs created too. I was on that gravy train, making a high wage in a science job that would not have existed if we didn't believe carbon emissions caused global warming. And so were lots of people around me; and there were international conferences full of such people. And we had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. “Unfortunately politics and science have become even more entangled. The science of global warming has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched. Politicians and the public prefer simple and less-nuanced messages. At the moment the political climate strongly supports carbon emissions as the cause of global warming, to the point of sometimes rubbishing or silencing critics,” he concluded.

Climate researcher Dr. Tad Murty, former Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans in Canada. "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary.”

Botanist Dr. David Bellamy, a famed UK environmental campaigner, former lecturer at Durham University and host of a popular UK TV series on wildlife, recently converted into a skeptic after reviewing the science and now calls global warming fears "poppycock." According to a May 15, 2005 article in the UK Sunday Times, Bellamy said “global warming is largely a natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that can’t be fixed.” “The climate-change people have no proof for their claims. They have computer models which do not prove anything,”

Climate scientist Dr. Chris de Freitas of The University of Auckland, N.Z., also converted from a believer in man-made global warming to a skeptic. “At first I accepted that increases in human caused additions of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere would trigger changes in water vapor etc. and lead to dangerous ‘global warming,’ But with time and with the results of research, I formed the view that, although it makes for a good story, it is unlikely that the man-made changes are drivers of significant climate variation.”

Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, “All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd. Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air,” Bryson said. “You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide,” he added.

Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, of Carlton University in Ottawa converted from believer in C02 driving the climate change to a skeptic. “[My conversion from believer to climate skeptic] came about approximately 5-6 years ago when results began to come in from a major NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Strategic Project Grant where I was PI (principle investigator),” Patterson explained. “Over the course of about a year, I switched allegiances,” he wrote. “As the proxy results began to come in, we were astounded to find that paleoclimatic and paleoproductivity records were full of cycles that corresponded to various sun-spot cycles. About that time, [geochemist] Jan Veizer and others began to publish reasonable hypotheses as to how solar signals could be amplified and control climate,” Patterson noted. Patterson says his conversion “probably cost me a lot of grant money. However, as a scientist I go where the science takes me and not were activists want me to go.” Patterson now asserts that more and more scientists are converting to climate skeptics. "When I go to a scientific meeting, there's lots of opinion out there, there's lots of discussion (about climate change). I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority,”

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor of the Department of Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa, reversed his views on man-made climate change after further examining the evidence. a few years ago, I decided to look more closely at the science and it astonished me. In fact there is no evidence of humans being the cause. There is, however, overwhelming evidence of natural causes such as changes in the output of the sun. This has completely reversed my views on the Kyoto protocol,” Clark explained. “Actually, many other leading climate researchers also have serious concerns about the science underlying the [Kyoto] Protocol,” he added.

Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far more consistent picture with climate, over many time scales, than did the CO2 scenario.”