What one particular "thing" will stop or reverse global warming if everyone does it?

Question

By everyone, I mean every person in the world!

Answer 1

You are talking of the impossible.

Anyway I will tell you. Being an engineer I understand the harm the electricity is doing. If you stop the production of electricity all industry will stop, all mining will stop, all heating will stop, all pollution will stop , all vehicles will stop. So man will go back in history some 300 years and live more a natural life of farming and enjoy nature. no more wars with Atom bombs, poisonous gases, huge armies etc. So now we will be peaceful and take months and years to move from one end od earth to other.

Answer 2

There is only one thing that we can do in the world that has any chance of stopping Global Warming and that is a total blockade of oil exports by Iran.

Such a blockade is jusified because Iran is the primary source of funding for world terrorism. We have the right under international law to blockade Iran because it funds world terrorism.

Such a blockade has solid precedent. Former president John Kennedy blockaded Cuba when it attempted to import nuclear missiles.

The funding of world terrorism is more than sufficient reason to blockade Iran.

The bonus is that it also makes a significant contribution to the reduction of Global Warming.


That is the ony way that we can achieve a sufficient world wide reduction in the use of fossil fuel to have any impact at all on Global Warming.

All of the other things that we are doing whether it is more recycling, buying hybrid cars, turning out the lights, unplugging appliances are so small that any contributions they make are insignificant.

Answer 3

There won't be one single "magic bullet" (and, humannature being what it is, not everyone will get on board anyway--sigh!).

What we will see is a mix of strategies, some for conservation (increasing the efficiency of our technology) and some that produce energy without pollution.

The exact mix is anbody's guess at this point (if we did know, people wouldn't be spending gigabucks on researdch).. But here's my estimate of the currently most promising strategies (and, since its my opinion, I'm only listing the ones I consider top long-term contenders).

Conservation:
Much wider use of mas transit
A shift to energy efficient home construction
Those energy-efficient light bulbs (I'm saving about $10 a month on those now!)
High-mileage cars (to the extent we continue to use gasoline--or biiofuels; cost will push high efficiency for either).

Alternative enrgy:
Solar
Wind
Nuclear (not my first choice, but it will be a part of the solution)
Electric cars combined with an infrastructure to service them--and based on an alternative energy production technology(s)

Finally--we really need to get over the scare tactics of the special interests. If you think about each of these, you'll find they all have certain features in common:

They save consumers money--after paying for themselves
(including solar panels--thogh that's admittedly a long term proposition)
They will creae new businesses and new jobs
They will (with the exception of nuclear and biofuels) be CHEAPER to operate in the long run.

The only losers will be the oil and coal companies. AWWWWWWWWW! :)

Answer 4

Global warming is the earth. Thus "Global". The earth is doing it's own thing. There have been natural disasters throughout history, and just because we havent had the science to document temperatures like we can now, does not mean that this hasn't happened a million times before. The earth has been here LONG before human beings, and will be here LONG after we kill ourselves off.

Answer 5

The main thing that causes global warming is using fossal fuels.

Answer 6

Why would you want to completely stop global warming? So we can all go back to the Little Ice Age. No thank you, I would rather have too much heat than cold. Having high crop yields and no glaciers crushing my village is a good thing.

Answer 7

Nothing. You might be able to slow it down...but it's the natural cycle of the earth to exit an ice age for a while and we are at the end of an ice age. Even if all the people and everything they ever created disappeared overnight, the world would continue to warm until it was time to start the next ice age.

Answer 8

everyone needs to open their freezer at 3pm est tomorrow 7-7-07 and leave it open for 5 minutues, that should give us a few more years to prove to all that "global warming" is not caused by humans..

Answer 9

If we all die, we'd stop using so much electricity. However, our rotting corpses might pollute water and create more problems.

If we cut down on driving and using non-renewable and throwaway products we could be well on our way to stopping global warming.

Answer 10

The one thing you could do is track your "carbon footprint" and take actions to reduce it. This "carbon footprint" is the amount of carbon you generate in your daily life. Transportation (gasoline) and electricity (coal) are two big "emitters" of carbon. By reducing your carbon footprint you reduce emissions, save energy, and keep $ out of the hands the people who don't like us (terrorists).

Even if you don't agree with the global warming science, who wants to waste money and support terrorists?