From early 1980's until about 2002, it was all about energy. Now it's about global warming - switch things off - saving energy! anyone else thinking my way out there?
2007-10-31 09:13:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Green Living
I still hear a lot about it - I guess it just depends on what media you are listening to. I think though that certain things run in cycles. In a few years it won't be global warming - it will be something else.
2007-10-31 09:21:31 · answer #1 · answered by RLW 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The media - newspapers, news channels etc... always latch on to whats now and current and that's global warming which I am sure is being used as an excuse by politicians to cover up a possible energy crisis - peak oil!
Oil is currently at $93.99 a barrel and has risen from $65 in the last year - it's said that if oil ever reached $100 a barrel we would be in trouble - give it a few months and it will be there and will never come down.
Peak oil (when demand for oil outstrips supply) is real and is going to happen within the next 30 years, maybe sooner with China and Indias growth, the book I've recently read stated 2011 and with oil prices going up now, I'd say it was a pretty good estimate.
I think global warming is real but politicians are using it as an excuse to try and stop us using so much non-renewable rescources - after all, our entire economy is based on oil, from the clothes we wear, packaging on food to all the plastics and electronic devices that you can see! When peak oil arrives, the price will skyrocket increasing the cost of everything, including food. Why we don't hear more about this I don't know! It's been mentioned by politicians a few times, maybe it isn't that big a deal, after all we've been through worse and whatever happens, happens!
2007-11-01 14:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by randombushmonkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media follow trends. Energy crisis ran its course. When they get tired of global warming, and if there is no royal story to fill a short gap, it will probably be back to energy crisis again.
I am still wondering why I am being told that it is my TV left on standby that is overheating the world, when no one even mentions those incredible gas flares we see being burnt off in the North Sea, and all over the Middle East.
By the time the Greens, the Politicians and the Businessmen have knocked each other unconscious, we will know what we ought not to do, what we will not be allowed to do, and what it is going to cost us not to do it, because there is nothing left to do it with, and maybe nowhere to do it, anyway.
2007-10-31 09:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by Rolf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People have such short memories. The oil shortages of the 1970s are gone and new shortages have not appeared (yet). So people forget that oil is a non-renewable resource that WILL run out some day. Probably in 100 years. So be it global warming or energy crisis, we better be smarter and invent better energy sources in less than 100 years or we will be in real trouble.
2007-10-31 10:21:32 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are getting taken for mugs.Does anyone out there believe for 1 minute that switching off an electrical device will make any difference!.If we all chucked out our electrical appliances tomorrow the only thing to change it would bring is that a few people making these goods would go bankrupt.But we would still be expected to pay for going green.This scenario of global warming is in my opinion is being used by government to make us pay more in taxes etc.A 12volt light can give out as much light as an energy saving one.Why do we still have 240/110volts in our domestic dwellings.These Governmental people do not really care about efficiency,All they really care about is money.And looking at ways of generating it.Global warming is a good way.Do not be deluded in thinking that they are going to perform a miracle to rectify any particular aspect.
2007-10-31 11:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by the rocket 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Global warming is the bigger issue, the good thing about it is that it carries many other issues along with it. Many sensible people a re still talking about energy saving, just look at the lightbulbs. It is a problem that energy efficiency makes renewable power look sexy. Energy efficincy is arguably much more important for most of us.
2007-10-31 09:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by John Sol 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello?!? The price of gasoline has doubled in the past few years. How is that not an energy crisis? I see it on the news a lot!
2007-10-31 14:27:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the mainstream media get money from advertising bigger more energy consuming lifestyles, look at all the ads for 4x4s, big TVs etc in BBC magazines.
and no-one has yet voted or had a revolution to demand less consumption - so politicians still focus on GDP, or unsustainable growth, as a way of keeping us happy.
http://www.greatturningtimes.org
look for local initiatives like transition towns and it is still a very hot topic. http://www.transitiontowns.org/
2007-11-01 02:59:59 · answer #8 · answered by fred 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scare stories about energy crises are just ways of getting the price to go up! When it is where you want it, don't talk about it an it all settles at that level.
There is an energy crises really, a non-economical one. We will run out of fuel. I won't be around...I wouln't want to be.
2007-11-01 03:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by Trist 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's how it goes in this country, whatever the media finds as a hot button (which used to be called a soap box) issue it latches on and runs with it until it finds a new issue.
2007-10-31 09:22:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋