Have you taken any steps to help lessen the effects of global warming?

Question

When our light bulbs blow out I replace them with those weird windy looking ones (let me just say they are not very bright at all!) and I never leave a light on if I am not using it and we drive economical cars lol Might not seem like much but I have started turning off power at the power point now too. I know that many people out there don't believe in global warming but don't you think it is worthwhile to take it seriously in case many scientists DO know better than you, for the sake of our children and grandchildren and so on? I feel it is very selfish to dismiss the notion of global warming because it might inconvenience our lives a fraction to try to slow down the process.

But if EVERYONE took global warming seriously and did just these few little things it would help right? I mean there are billions of people.

I have a child and plan to have another one so I will take any warning that may affect their future seriously, I love them so why wouldn't I?

Answer 1

Yes, I have. I have become a vegan (thus reducing the amount of resources I use as well as pollution I produce), I quit my old job and found one much closer to home to cut back on my commute, have taken steps to become more energy-efficient and have reduced my consumption. Currently I am in the middle of a two week fast, which will reduce my carbon footprint for the year even further. Finally, I have started a website devoted to spreading environmental awareness, education and activism. Check out www.thegspwebsite.com to find out other ways to help curb your emissions and thereby help fight global wraming.

Answer 2

Because there is nothing you can do to stop it. Just the same, I wouldn't carry insurance if it weren't the law that I have to have it. I think it is unfair that I give money away to someone else incase I need to spend it to cover damages, when I can just pay for the damages when it occurs. Again, the same, why don't we just use the technology we already have to produce NO IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT? For the sake of our good health, and for the rest of the planet and its future. And prevent corporate leaders from milking society's money by producing at the lowest allowable standards, and making it so that the lifespan of products is very short, and consumption of consumable products is encouraged and controlled to be as much as tolerable. Yes we clearly tolerate. 32 mpg cars when 80 mpg is absolutely possible and practical, and has been for the last 40 years... energy from polluting, non-renewable resources when there is an abundance of cheap, free, infinite, non-polluting power. More than 50 years ago Tesla took a car from the ford assembly line and had an electric motor put in it. He then plugged a small receiver into the power inputs located in the driving compartment. And powered the car remotely from a generator several miles away that took energy from the earth's magnetic field! He did this for an audience. It is recorded in newspapers and was seen on television! I am going to create a self-perpetuating water generator to power my home within the next 5 years. This is a sad world we live in. And it has always been this way. If I try to market my idea, I will likely be stopped or even killed because of the impact it will have on oil industry and power suppliers world wide. So I will only share it with few who can be trusted.

Answer 3

Haven't driven in about 15 years, but that wouldn't work for most people. I also try to turn electronics off at the source,but that angers the people I live with, so now it's my lamp and radio. I also try to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. I used to buy things for myself and others because I thought the things were cute, now I also look at what the things will be used for. I have also cut way back on my family eating out by cooking at home mostly in a vegan style.

Answer 4

i've done a lot too.

i try to expose the lie on a daily basis.

until we get a cfl to replace the sun, there is nothing humans can do.

scientists have been predicting these things for years!

for example,
some of these were mainstream scientific ideas, taught in public schools. All HAVE BEEN PROPOSED SINCE THE 60'S:

famine
mass death
shifting of food production regions
climate change
overpopulation
global cooling
mass starvation
massive glaciers
uninhabitable places on earth
running out of fossil fuel
pollution physically altering man (through adaptation)

all this was supposed to happen by the year 2000, and if man didn't stop using fossil fuels. we had 30+ years of "irrefutable data" showing that man caused it too.

but we didn't stop, we used more!

STRANGELY, NOT ONE PREDICTION HAS CAME TRUE YET!

now i'm supposed to "believe" global warming is "real"

Answer 5

What you do has virtually no effect in the sea of waste energy expenditure that is the global marketplace. I'm sorry to say that we are stuck with the inevitable, I personally suggest you live it up. (Conserve energy for capitalistic reasons only and exploit it for gain.) For this will be the de facto rate of energy consumption despite the self imposed privations of a few individuals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Answer 6

I must say that you have a very sensible approach to things and it's good that you're looking ahead to the world we leave behind for future generations.

Climate scientists (of which I'm one) know that we're not going to stop global warming by changing lightbulbs and driving less. The aim isn't to stop GW but to slow it down, in doing so we buy ourselves more time, time to develop alternative technologies and energy sources and time to develop solutions to the problems of climate change.

Nature is complicated and balanced, it is able to accommodate some of our greenhouse gas emissions but we're overloading the natural mechanisms. The more we overload them the more damage we cause. If each person reduced their greenhouse gas emissions it would add up to a big saving and prevent a lot of damage from occurring.

As to what I've done: Our domestic carbon footprint has been reduced to approx half, this has been achieved through a variety of simple techniques that have barely caused any inconveneince and have led to a net saving of approx $1000 a year (better insulation, more energy efficient appliances, reduction in consumption, green energy supplier etc).

The biggest difference we made was last year when a friend and myself planted three small forests in Africa. 50,000 trees in total that will remove the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere as is produced each year by about 450 people.

Land in Africa for such schemes is free, labour is provided free by local villagers, the only cost was the trees themselves - less than $0.10 each and materials for fencing (very cheap). The villages benefit as the trees provide shelter, food, fuel and timber so it's a win-win situation all round.

Answer 7

Nothing. There are so few people on Earth to make any impact on the weather. There is nothing man can do to change something as massive as the climate.

Changing your lights to CF lights only changes the pollution to mercury in the landfills.

Make decisions wisely.

Answer 8

I only make changes that have a positive effect on my pocketbook

Answer 9

No because I have far more important things to deal with.