Why do most people not care about our Planet?

Question

it really enoys me when people dont care.
Global Warming is mostly to do with us and Climate Change too!
Poachers are evil I tell you!
Animals are on the verge of extinction because of them! and us!
does any one agree?

Answer 1

Just because people care in a different way than you do, don't mistake that for not caring. A drug addict may think you don't care if you don't give them money that they can use to buy more drugs. A child may think that you don't care if you make them work for their money instead of just giving it to them. There are many very real environmental ills caused by man that people care about rather than global warming.

Would it be right for me to say that YOU don't care if your cares are not prioritized the same as yours? Isn't that self-centered?

Answer 2

People do care about the planet however, they may not (probably do not) agree with the idea of human caused global warming. I realize that to say this is to be considered a person of no education and/or one who hates the world, but this is far from the reality. It has seemingly become politically incorrect to view the world in a perspective differing from the Paul Urlich/Al Gore spin on reality.

It is as if Chicken Little were running around screaming “the sky is falling” when in reality it was an acorn that dropped on her head. Some of us see a reality which is based on scientific studies made by hard core climatologists which demonstrate there is nothing to fear from the acts of humans.

Climate change is a fact, it has always been a fact. However, when someone makes the allegation that we are in a global warming period, the first response should be, “relative to what base line?” Should it be 30 years ago, 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 1,000 years ago, more? Pick one and you can demonstrate that times are getting warmer and, that times are getting cooler. Even if the world is getting warmer, is this bad, or (oh so evil to suggest it) could things get better? In the past during periods when it was significantly warmer than now food production was better world wide than today permitting one to believe that maybe warming is not all bad.

Even if it could be proven (scientifically) that warming was real and was bad, what has been suggest as action to stop or even reduce such a trend? Nothing! Those human outputs defined as contributing to global warming are, in reality, so small relative to the natural causes of climate change that even if all were stopped tomorrow, nothing would change. Except our culture would collapse and tens of millions of people would die. Also, make no mistake, to implement such things as the Kyoto Treaty means increasing of government intrusion into the private lives of individuals by methods which will be extra-constitutional and that will more assuredly mean the end of the nation more than any chicken-little political spin about human caused global warming..

Answer 3

first we are not destroying the planet. the only way humans could harm the planet would be to blow it up. the planet will be here long long after humans have left. Be it from extinction or because we eventually develop the technology to leave this small rock. however what we are doing is endangering the existence of the human race.

global warming is almost entirely to do with humans, but global warming isn't harming the planet. merely changing it temporarily.

poachers? lol more animal have become extinct before humans got here than we can ever imagine. animals come, animals go (this includes humans). our tum will come to leave or die.

so no i dont agree with anything you said, except global warming to do with humans

Answer 4

Most people here (in the UK) do care about our planet and are in favour of cutting down on CO2 emissions. Many are buying smaller, more economical cars, are avid recyclers and are considering ways to be more environmentally friendly. Unfortunately the primary reason for climate change is due to man and the increase in population. More people means more housing, which means more energy being used, more waste production, more jobs needed, more travelling to get to these jobs, more production of goods and packaging, more transportation of goods, etc etc the list goes on. You cannot have an increase in industry and growth, growth, growth without paying for it, and it`s the environment that is going to pay first and then we`ll all suffer the consequences. All because of more people.

Answer 5

Your statements put you in the majority, in every aspect but your conclusion. Most do care.
There is a total misunderstanding and lack of knowledge throughout the world.
Example: R12 is a freon refrigerant banned in the USA and many industrial nation: a person may be fined $10,000 US for every pound smuggled into this country. The reason is that it destroys the ozone layer at a rate of between 2,000 & 10,000 times its weight once it reaches that altitude.
More than any CO2 discharge or thermal generation, R12 is enemy number one to the Earth. It permits direct, hard radiation to fall on the icecaps, deep heating them as well as melting their surfaces. Your children now get fried on the playground, where our parents didn't even think about sunblock.

Most of you have never heard this before, because it is politically incorrect to point fingers at developing nations with what looks to them as snobbery. Also, our political allies are using just as much if not more R12 than are our political enemies, so national politics get in the way of any slowdown.

The remainder of the worlds developing nations pump more R12 into the atmosphere than can be documented - or believed by sane individuals. These countries simply tell us to get stuffed - they want a piece of the economic pie and cannot upgrade their infrastructure just now to abandon R12. They keep making it and keep using it.

Sooo, stop buying inexpensive items made in China. If it says "Indonesia", leave it on the shelf. Buy stuff made only in Europe and America. You will be economically poorer for it, but can participate in the preservation of the Earth in a very positive way. You will discover that most people already understand this, but cannot deprive their families and children based on it - just like the developing nations of the world.

Answer 6

Because 99% of the people are selfish, greedy, I want it now, who belive it's down to somebody else to save their planet.
You'll get a lot of peole saying they do care, then tomorrow they'll jump into their cars or pour detergent into the water system and carry on destroying the world.
Ask 100 people to give up their car and each one will give an excuse why they shouldn't. But they will expect the other 99 people to.
To save the planet we need to cull the human race, and that will never happen.

Answer 7

I care and I care more than you can ever imagine. Not just because I got grand kids and a great grand kid who means all the world to me. I've done more for nature conservation than most of these young whipper snappers behind their keyboards sprouting rhetoric about global warming. I've donated money, time and energy for developing and working for the World Wildlife Fund. One of our major goals was to defeat illegal poaching. I've been involved in nature conservation all my life and have worked with many of our American preservations and hands on caring of wildlife.

So it berates my intelligence when someone accuses me again and again that I don't care about this planet that I've done so much to conserve and make green when most of them are just whiz kids who never spent a day in nature. And all for what? Because I won't tow the line of the Global Alarmist.

Go into industrializing Third World nations and see how much toxic spews are being spread all over their countries. Soil is full of chemicals, live stock are dying, etc. There is no clean water. Now go to fully developed European and American countries and see the difference. Countries that can afford vast amounts of land to be preserved as wildlife sanctuaries. You will notice that the difference is because of the amount of energy that country has to solve their environmental problems. Energy is power. A sick man can't lift no garbage. He's got to be strong and full of energy.

Well carbon is the basic energy source of all life forms. I'm not just talking about fuel energy to run our water purification plants and sanitation systems, but the basic energy inside us human bodies. Carbon is Life. We are carbon based. What we eat is carbon based. The most basic energy food has the highest carbon. Plants eat carbon through the air as carbon dioxide. So if you want to control all the world, control their carbon.

If you really love this planet, you will do anything in your power to stop the carbon trade. Once carbon becomes a controlled substance, our future is lost. This back door "environmental" disaster ploy to push us all into doing something screwy is the real disaster in the foreseeable future.

Answer 8

Top of most peoples agendas are their families. Most people are struggling to pay mortgages and build a future. They have kids that need feeding and being clothed. They often have to work long hours to provide this, the last thing on their minds is the planet. They leave that to people who have more time than they do.

Answer 9

Many people say they care about our planet but don't act that way. Some people I know have formed an environmental team, but only seem to pick up litter occasionally because it takes more time for them to live environmentally friendly lives.

Answer 10

What really annoys me are people who know it all. Some of us were around only 30 years ago when the scientifically proven evidence showed us that Global Cooling was going to wipe us out in 10 years.

What really annoys me is people who rush to judgment and say that because I don't buy into the "man-made" Global Warming that I don't care about the planet.