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i need to know, before i dedicate much of my time and money and change my life style in order to help mother earth.
Are we really the cause of global warming? If so, how bad is it affecting us?
I know humans are extremely incapable when it comes to some things...
Are most of the ice on the planet going to melt within the next 100-200 years?
Are we creating a pathway of our own demise and the government hiding it?
im confused...
i need some answers
please be serious.
Thank you for your output

2007-08-25 12:19:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment Other - Environment

11 answers

we arnt ruoning the planet, were making it better.
hippie...
also global warming isnt happining
warmest years on record were in the 30's.
for people who say im lying, check nasa's updated report (if you can find it).

2007-08-25 12:28:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

To answer your question, we're not going to kill the planet. We may cause a shift, global climate change, but that's dangerous to us. When you hear about global warming, we're focusing on our survival. Sure, species will become extinct, but that's just a natural process to weed out the weak. We import invasive plants and they're destroying the habitat for native plants, again it's a competition between nature. Something will win, but it's not really all that bad as the media or those "greens" tout to be.

So you hear stories about the polar bears, the penguins dying off, but what you don't hear are how other species are evolving, and some are mutating to become other species. We are changing our world, but the roaches will still survive because they're the most hardy. So what if our world is ruled by insects... it would matter if humans are extinct. We just care about ourselves. So, in conclusion, when you ask if we are killing the planet, you're actually asking if we're making the planet more inhospitable to us. Humans will probably overpopulate the planet, eat up most of its resources, and we'll get wiped out by an ice age or something like that.

IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING
The easiest way to reduce your impact on the environment without really making a life style change and be healthy is to reduce how much meat you eat. The reason behind this is that if you eat from a lower trophic level, you consume less of the world's energy. Let's say this, plants convert the sun's energy to be biomass, and say a small animal eats the plant, then a larger animal eat the smaller animal. Each time the biomass goes through a different level there's a loss of about 70-80%. Our bodies are really inefficient at conserving energy. So after eating from the second trophic level, you're only getting say 9 part of biomass from a 100 part biomass. So just eat less meat, and more fruits and vegetables. You'll be directly consuming the first trophic level and get 30% of the biomass. You'll be doing more than someone who doesn't drive a car. If you can buy local from local farmers, you'll cut out a trip of 2,000 miles to deliver your food to a 10 mile trip.

2007-08-25 13:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey S 2 · 1 1

Yeah, I agree. The earth is really at risk. The ice caps are melting, the ozone layer is almost destroyed, and many other problems still exist. A lot of the big problem is air pollution. If everyone drove only when they needed to instead of just driving to drive, or even getting a fuel-efficient vehicle, can you just imagine how we could save this earth? How about recycling? We all can recycle neary 3/4 of the things in our homes. Did you know that is takes about 2 YEARS for a plastic bottle to decompose?
To tie this altogether, I have to say that EVERYONE on this planet needs to work together to create a better environment for ourselves, and everything that belongs to it.

2007-08-25 13:49:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Doesn't NASA use satellites to measure the global temperature? They didn't have satellites in the 1930s. Heard about Sputnik?

Also look at this, ITS FROM NASA! I know Americans have a hard time thinking there's a place outside the US but just because the US's hottest year was in 1934 doesn't mean the world's was in 1934. Again look at this:

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20070208/

Yah, we're "killing" the planet and making it less habitable for us.
The Arctic ice caps will melt in the next 100 years.

2007-08-25 12:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Humans are partly the cause and it will not be bad.

The Earth is still warming up from the last ice age about 10,000 years ago. Glaciers have been melting for 10,000 years.

But humans are potting a significant and growing amount of extra CO2 into the air which is accelerating the natural warming.

2007-08-25 13:14:02 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1 1

global warming is affecting us so bad
we have the most disasters in the world
have you notice!!!!!!!!!

all are comming one by one
hurricane
earth quake
floods etc...

it wont take so long to demise our own earth
we're the cause yes
we drive the cars smoke factories
all the things that creates disasters
most of them we do

hillary

2007-08-25 14:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Ozone layer is getting destroyed, dumping radioactive waste in the arctic, air pollution so bad that there is an air quality report, marine animals with more mercury in them than a thermometer, no we're not killing it , duhhhhhhhh!!!!!

2007-08-28 08:57:50 · answer #7 · answered by slippin90210 2 · 0 0

Seriously, you are naive to the point of hilarious.

"I haven't done a stitch of research for myself, I have just listened to everyone argue about it and now I'm just confused! Help me!"

You want someone, in a paragraph, to convince you to take life altering actions. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS! Do your own research, come to your own conclusions.

2007-08-25 22:53:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Since the planet is not alive, no one is killing it.

2007-08-26 07:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Absolutely not, glaciers came and went prior to human existence. Earth will change regardless of whether we are here or not.

2007-08-25 12:26:38 · answer #10 · answered by 27ysq 4 · 0 2

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