Today we hear more than ever about global warming or climate change. Whatever happen to recycle or recyling or plant a tree? I don't beleive that global warming is real there's no truth to that at all. If driving and flying and having a SUV is the cause of so-called global warming why not walk or ride a bike? What about the dust bowl in the 1930's where was the SUV's then?
2007-06-27 04:42:01 · 16 answers · asked by **Anti-PeTA** 5 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
This reminds me of the whole ozone layer hysteria of the early '90's. First, there was a hole in the ozone layer caused by CFC's; however, the hole was over ANTARCTICA. THEN, the hole was a "moving hole." which could patch itself up every now and then. Now, no one talks about it. Interesting....
2007-06-27 06:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by Sara 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ya know I have always recycled. I am 40 and was raised in Kalifornia near Berkeley and we were taught it in elementary school. All the environmentalists and their pope AlGore act like they invented it last year.
Many of us have never stopped recycling yet get chastised for a 4x4 that we bought used 25 years ago. We get blasted for the vehicle we drive once a month because we are not driving a prius. Sorry but a prius is not going to take my family camping or help participate in a beach clean up event. You need more than a miniature trunk to haul away bags and bags of designer water bottles from the beach or parks.
Some of the biggest environmental zealots are born again environmentalists or kids right out of school. Bashing us because we don't have the new $30,000 hybrid and we have the 20 year old honda that still gets 35 mpg!
2007-06-27 10:29:39 · answer #2 · answered by deenerzz 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whatever happened to planting a tree or recycling? More people recycle now then ever. People still plant trees and forestry management is much better now then in past decades.
Why don't we ride bikes? For most parts of the US, the infrastructure was built on the premise that driving would be the mechanism for people getting from place to place. As a result, most urban development is too spread out to effectively support walking or biking to work.
What about the dust bowl? The dust bowl wasn't the product of global warming, but poorly managed and intensive land use. Farmers sucked every last drop of water out of the soil in areas that received very little water with the expectation that so much rain would fall in a given year. When a series of drought years occurred, so little water remained in the soil that little held the soil together thus creating dust bowl conditions. There are most certainly lessons to be taken from the dust bowl with respect to current land use practices and short term thinking with respect to global warming, but it's not an example of global warming itself.
2007-06-27 05:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by gergreg 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I agree with Ken M. I think we are making an impact, it's to the degree being stated that I question. History shows that there have been drastic changes to the earth and humans were not even here yet.
I think we're going through a change that is inevitable. We have the ability to speed it up, or slow it down and that may count in our lifetime and maybe the lives of our children, but it's not going to stop these changes.
Those ice caps were going to be melting faster and faster regardless of us humans, probably just not as fast as they actually are melting.
My only request is they start making recyling, solar energy and whatever else, more affordable. Then maybe more people would be able implement these changes. $40,000.00 to change your house over to solar? Puleeeeze! and talk about them batteries needed for back-up!
OH, and don't get me started on the deal about the tax breaks if ya do install solar to your home. (Can ya front me the tax break money FIRST, just so I know how much I can spend yanno. That mortage company has had their eye on this here place. They got this little gleam in their eye when I asked for the second mortgage. I just wanna make sure I'M the one that gets to enjoy this newly installed solar energy.)
< running off to see if I can find some free red worms to make a compost bin, oh and the free bin too>
2007-06-27 10:04:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Recycling is still 'alive and well'.
Planting trees is still a great idea.
Global warming is 'real'.
Our addiction to OIL is only part of the cause of 'so-called' global warming. Vehicle emissions from gas-guzzling SUVs certainly contributes to it, but smoke-belching factories that pollute the air also is a big factor. Global warming is a cyclical event that the Earth goes through over centuries. Our man-made Industrial Revolution has disrupted that natural order of things, and the cycle is out of sync with nature. That means polar ice caps are melting faster than nature (polar bears, sea levels, etc.) can adapt. Which, in turn, will cause severe floods, hurricanes and other severe weather patterns along both coasts of both major oceans. While you might not be affected by it (depending on how old you are), you can almost certainly bet that your grandchildren or great-grandchildren will suffer the consequences of our squalor. So, when your beautiful grandchild crawls up on your lap and asks, "Gee, Grandma, how come you didn't do anything to resolve the global warming issues?" - what will your answer be?????
It's imperative that we take global warming and the ozone depletion issues seriously - NOW! And, of course, it's just as important that we continue to REduce, REuse, and REcycle in order to maintain the delicate ecological balance between all men, plants and animals so that we all are able to survive on this planet.
Anyone who thinks they can continue to squander Earth's precious natural resources, without consequences to future generations, is appallingly self-absorbed. -RKO- 06/27/07
2007-06-27 05:04:39 · answer #5 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am not sure what you are asking here.
Americans are close to recycling at their greatest rate of all time. Recycling certainly helps in the fight to prevent climate change in that it generally uses less energy which means less CO2 production.
As for climate change. 1) CO2 has been increasing in the atmosphere since the early 1700s (and really got going in the 1850s) with the start of the industrial revolution and the burning of fossil fuels. 2) Climate has always varied. The question is what level of impact are human activities having on present climate. The answer is that present scientific research suggest that humans are having a good deal of influence.
2007-06-27 05:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by Ken M 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
RKO said, "So, when your beautiful grandchild crawls up on your lap and asks, "Gee, Grandma, how come you didn't do anything to resolve the global warming issues?" - what will your answer be?????"
Thirty to forty years ago, environmental activists choked the nuclear energy industry in the US to a trickle. This was achieved via scare tactics and deception of the American public, often spouting scientific evidence of the dangers of nuclear energy. The sad truth is that we now know that all those fears were unfounded, that we lost INCREDIBLE capital momentum, and that we sorely need cleaner sources of energy today regardless of the presence of global warming.
So, what are those activists telling their grandchildren today? If they are teaching them about global warming, are they adding in the part about being largely responsible for the problem today due to their myopic , reactionary, and scientifically unsound dogma?
I'm not betting on it.
And when the global warming hysteria is over with and we are all left with the aftermath, it will once again be up to the industrious among us to get the world back on its feet and functioning...while the enviros sit back, like roadworkers leaning on their shovels, telling the heavy-lifters how they could be doing their jobs better.
2007-06-27 05:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by 3DM 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Wow M. R! You really missed the memo about opening your eyes and not believing everything your hippie liberal left public teacher taught you in social studies!
Hint 1: Your school union promotes moonbat commies
Hint 2: Your education sucks
Hint 3: You're an annoying wannabe know it all!
Enjoy your day!
:-)
2007-06-27 11:27:15 · answer #8 · answered by DJS 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that recycling has any effect on global warming, it is about having toxins in our landfills! As far as tress go they keep cutting them down to build houses that no one can afford to buy but except for the rich. I say they should save nice little patch of forest for the poor so that we can sit back and watch the rich choke on the pollution.
2007-06-27 07:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Wow. You really missed the memo. Global warming not real? You obvously don't know what global warming is (hint...it is not just temperature increases). Next time do your research. (Hint #2...check out when the industrial revolution started).
2007-06-27 10:13:10 · answer #10 · answered by M R 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋