Aren't There Real Environmental Problems That We Should Address Before Global Warming?

Question

We have no clue if "global warming" is caused by man or if it's causing any problems with the environment. Any time you hear an expert address environmental issues they always use qualifiers like 'could', 'likely', 'probably', 'may', etc....

But there are REAL environmental problems happening today, problems that can be measured, quantified, and resolved.

6 BILLION American Chestnut Trees are now gone, fell to a foreign blight. The American Chestnut was so plentiful, a squirrel could travel from Georgia to Maine without touching the ground. The Chestnut also provided hard mast, a staple for most of the wildlife.

This isn't the only example. Many of our native species are threatened by invasive non native species of plants, incest, and animals.

Why not spend the time and resources in correcting what we know is true, what we can see and measure to repair damage that we or nature has caused the environment?

Answer 1

I couldn't have said it better myself. the short answer is that there is no power or money to be had by addressing actual environmental issues. If those who worship at the alter of Global Warming were to forgo their little power and guilt trip, perhaps focus could be shifted. Unfortunately, those who wield power and profit from the foolish beliefs of the mindless, will never change.

Answer 2

True, there are many environmental problems that need to be addressed. But the solutions are not mutually exclusive; good solutions reinforce each other regardless of the field. The example of coal given above is good one. Coal mining is disastrous for the environment, changing watersheds, dumping toxic wastes in the water supply, etc. As it happens, reducing the use of coal will also reduce the production of CO2, a major factor in global warming.

Another example: population sprawl is devouring open space (at least in my home state). Along with the open space, we are losing huge amounts of plants and trees that help keep the air clean. Doesn't it make sense to design cities that are more compact, simultaneously reducing travel needs, saving energy, keeping the plants and giving people the chance to enjoy the outside?

Answer 3

Yes.

The reality that most activists (who rarely register on the "plus" side of global product) fail to understand is that you can't get something for nothing. In order to solve (ie, fund) a newly identified problem, funds must diverted from other problems. To prioritize one problem higher means to deprioritize others. Choose your battles wisely, lest you lose the war...

So, in order for global warming to be a winner, there will have to be losers.

Economies that teeter on the edge today will succumb to the added pressures that this new problem demands tomorrow. People that are starving today will be dying tomorrow. Activists have still not owned up to the tens of millions of people who have died and continue to die in the hundreds of thousands every year due to the banning of DDT...all because they "think" that it may be bad for some birds.

The most tragic irony will be if the decided solution is one that intentionally interferes with physical climate processes on a massive global scale and the cause is not man-made as they claim. The Earth may become so mucked up that we will have created the very kind of problem we wanted to avoid where none existed...only this will be one for which the Earth will have no natural "solution"...

There is no such thing as an "expert" climate engineer.

Answer 4

We know that it's causing damage. We know that people are dieing from it. We can't pinpoint a specific event, we can say how its altered the chances of those events. It's in its nature, a card dealer can't tell you what a certain hand will give, but he knows the chances. We can predict the likely hood of an event in the same way.I don't care what your agenda is, show some class.

Interesting James.
I don't think we've had a discussion regarding the radioactive problems with various power sources, except for nuclear power.

Answer 5

One of the most serious environmental issues is the pollution from the burning of coal.

Coal is contaminated by many toxic elements such as Mercury, Uranium and Thorium(1)

Every year in the United States over 2,000 tons of radioactive waste in the form of Uranium and Thorium is created from the burning of coal and is left in the coal ash after the coal is burned.

One of our highest priorities should be the replacement of coal with some other less polluting energy source.

Even nuclear power plants produce less radioactive waste than coal fired power plants.

Answer 6

Well we definitly have poverty, there is no doubt about that they can focuse on that after they figure what the real reason for this is, or they could deal with over fishing of sharks, or outsourcing and reduced wages in this country, or maybe they can focuse on illnesses we already know exist like aids.

How about superfund sites around the globe? ever seen pictures of the devastation of the water air and land in china? or the superfunds here, where mining companies came in several places in minnesota and wisconsin and left it desolated and the water was orange and acidic you couldn't even touch it?

stripped it of the trees, tore up the mountainside and when done left it like that. The list is endless.

RRRRRRR

Answer 7

To me global warming means "Global destabilization" since the weather around many parts of the world is not only getting warmer, it is just becoming more erratic with fiercer storms, colder and hotter weather, more floods, etc, so as to why they call it global warming I am not quite sure, but I really think that it should be called global destabilization.

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Answer 8

Ho hum.
Yet another person saying the world should forget about their silly unimportant concerns and work on the REAL problem, which of course is the one the asker is most interested in.

Answer 9

with the worldwide warming the temperature will improve if the temperature will improve it is going to soften the glaciers on the poles and if the glaciers soften, the sea point will critically improve consequently, worldwide warming is a severe situation. yet with the keeps production of pollution, the worldwide warming turns into extra severe and extra solid to revert.

Answer 10

I agree that there are more pressing issues concerning the environment but why do there matter. We couldnt destroy this earth if we tried to.