Concerning GW, do you think you are more optimistic than the "average joe"? I consider myself average; and I can get very pessimistic about GW. Sometimes I wish I didn't know anything about it.
2007-10-17 09:33:24 · 10 answers · asked by anybody 3 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Nope not more optimistic.. I get angry because I feel like my share isn't enough, and I wish more people cared, than not.. It's a huge lifestyle change that unfortunately costs A LOT in some aspects.
2007-10-17 09:41:39 · answer #1 · answered by idontknow 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Facts are facts, and the fact is that we seldom agree on anything until or after it has affected our daily functions.
Ice is melting more than use to be observed, fact.
Oceans are warmer than use to be observed, fact.
Now for the reality, the collective human understanding of an orb in space that rotates around a star came into the collective thinking five hundred years ago. Even then the two that thought of it and expressed it in writing, Copernicus and Galileo, well one didn't publish at all, the other was placed into house arrest for the remainder of his life.
We also thought the world was flat.
Some still do.
We only figured out or agreed that water will boil at x temp and freeze at x temp 400 years ago, we still have yet to agree which x is correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer
Humans are doubling every ten years now, and that is a sliding scale that will be at five years soon.
Fact is there is not enough fresh water to support the human population after a certain time.
I am no Einstein. I am content with my universe at this moment, we all fall.
2007-10-17 17:08:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your pessimism is well founded. It is already too late. Irreversible damage has already been done.
A very large number of people are going to die prematurely, many of them in the United States. This is one time when being a large continental land mass, with very little fresh water, is not such a good thing.
You may very well find that a move to Alaska is the only way to survive. The big problem is that everyone else will want to go there too. Then look who your neighbours will be. Russians, and Chinese, and unhappy Canadians, saddled with the major planet polluters all together in a bunch.
2007-10-17 17:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by doshiealan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know exactly how you feel. My crisis of conscience is: "Is it worth the investment to get my energy efficiency products to market if there are insufficient numbers sold to make a real difference to the environment?"
It is hard to keep on working for a good cause if you feel unappreciated or that someone out there is working against you. Keep up the good fight; more people support you than don't.
2007-10-17 19:44:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everybody has to get involved. This is something about life extinction. I wish more people cared we cannot hide from it.It is a real fact. Do you wish to care about it now or wish to have no life in the universe? I take the first option!
2007-10-18 01:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by Pavi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am very optimistic. Not optimistic that we can do much about it. Optimistic that the effects will be mild enough that we will have no trouble adapting to them. Very small and slow changes. Bad for wildlife in the arctic but not bad for people at all.
2007-10-17 17:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Mankind has gone through a lot in history from famine, plague, flood, fire, earthquake and war. In some parts of the world these things still go on. Try to put it to one side into the corner of your mind for the sake of your mental health. We may yet surprise ourselves with our resilience at tackling this problem.
2007-10-17 16:50:24 · answer #7 · answered by Robert A 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I think we will come up with a solution but I'm American and believe in happy endings
2007-10-17 17:07:08 · answer #8 · answered by dad 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To tell you the truth, I haven't been the same since the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Now that *was* a doozie!!
2007-10-17 16:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by Knick Knox 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
it is a fact and we can't hide from it. everybody has to get involved.
2007-10-17 16:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by lek 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋