Nothing to do last night, so I went to a meeting of people against a LNG terminal going in near their house. Some of their worries were legitimate, but the ones they continued to harp on were just lies they made up to frighten themselves. "When a pipeline blows up it will dig a crater 1600 feet wide." When a ship blows up it will go off like a nuclear blast." The ship might contain as much energy as a small nuclear bomb, but it won't all go off at once since it needs oxygen to burn and its expansion rate is 1/10 the rate of a fission reaction. It could also be said a coal train (or a pencil eraser, if transformed to pure energy) has the power of a nuclear bomb, but obviously it isn't going to blow up like one.
The same concept holds true for the GW dilema. The vast majority of the people on earth aren't going to die from higher temperatures. Also, the government isn't going to tax us so much the economy fails and we will all have to live in caves
2007-10-25 06:28:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
There are entire treatises devoted to the human perception of risk. It's certainly not rational or intuitive. As far as GW goes, some people can't conceive of the risk and conclude it doesn't exist. Other people see GW as a symptom of a greater problem, the canary if you will, and therefore attach great risk to it.
2007-10-25 07:35:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, some people just like drama, but don't mistake everyone's concerns for fear. Some of us are worried about the conditions we are leaving behind for our kids. It's not all about global warming. It's about all the trash, it's about air and water pollution, deforestation, species loss, resource depletion. There is reason for concern, if you are not just thinking about yourself and your lifetime. Too many people in this country make EVERYTHING about politics and create unnecessary drama, rather than taking action in their everyday lives, which is the ethically correct thing to do.
2007-10-25 06:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by Stormy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people are ignorant and cowardly.
Or if that is too harsh, they are not well informed on technical issues and not willing to take unnecessary risks.
2007-10-25 07:16:15 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
w t f ?
2007-10-25 07:21:09 · answer #4 · answered by samiam24348 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋