If your answer is no, please do not provide explanations that are 'derivatives' of selfishness (eg. greed, avarice)
2007-11-02 05:40:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
I don't know that it comes down to selfishness. You could reasonably argue that it would be selfish not to allow progress and so deny people the benefits of modern technology.
It's unfortunate that so many of the things we rely on in today's modern society are contributing to global warming, everything from communications to medicine, transport to heating.
Perhaps irresponsibility or relectance to change may be a better way of putting it than selfishness, in my opinion anyway.
Just to clarify, not all global warming is caused by human activities. There is an underlying natural warming trend but this is a very slow one compared to what we're actually seeing. Thye natural climate has a great many variables and so it's impossible to say precisely how much the world would be warming if it weren't for humans. If we assume every natural variable is at it's maximum then 80% of the current warming is down to humans, with 92.5% being both the mean and median figure.
2007-11-02 05:58:09 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No. I get REALLY annoyed the way some people think people are just bad (other people of course, never themselves).
The main cause of climate change is that Earth's climate is not, and never has been, constant. It has ice ages and warm periods. It is not well understood by science what causes these changes, but even if we can say for sure that the present change is due to human activity, it is the height of self righteous, holier than thou preaching hypocrites to say that human greed is the cause. Unless you consider the desire to survive greed. And some people DO consider that to be the case.
Anybody who knows history well knows that we are far better off today than ever before in human history and that the problems we think are SO bad are nothing at all compared to problems we have solved. Solved in many cases by doing the things people like you are saying we are just greedy for doing.
2007-11-02 07:03:10 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No.
Here is truth about global warming:
Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.
It's been happening for millions of years.
The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.
Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.
2007-11-02 08:44:51 · answer #3 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO,
During the ice age and the meltdown that occured, what were those selfish people driving, where were they shopping, what factory did they work at. How many cars, trucks, tv's, and boats did they own.
Use your brain, don't believe everything you hear.
Most people are making money somehow by spewing all this garbage. Some are the researchers themselves who recieve hefty grants to prove whatever agenda they have.
Some are making themselves famous.
Some just like to play an instrument on the band wagon.
Some like to tell us how to run our lives, while at the same time doing worse than we ever thought about.
I applaud that you asked a question, to find a true answer you can read , EXPLORING CREATION WITH PHYSICAL SCIENCE, by Dr. Jay L. Wile. He has a great section in it devoted to how climate and weather happen.
If the climate is changing, we have no ability to change it for good or bad.
2007-11-02 08:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by kat 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The human race thinks it "needs" everything and that it is automatically entitled to these things.
We're not and we should get over it. Ignorance may be bliss, but it's certainly not the best way to lead a life, never mind a civilization.
And the person who thinks that the climate change that we are experiencing today is a natural cycle - go read a scientific paper. Honestly, people will believe anything, as long as it suits their lifestyle. Think a bit before you go believing every fear mongering comment they make on CNN. Remember back in the mid 1900s when there was a huge debate on whether smoking was bad for you? Funny how that turned out... I wonder who funded that research that showed that smoking and lung cancer aren't correlated...
2007-11-02 06:03:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Please... The advancement of man, new technology, better living and lifestyles, lifting the poor out of poverty, these are just selfish goals?
People who believe in man made global warming are self hating altruist who think man is the cause for all of the worlds problems. This way of thinking is a mental illness.
Man cannot effect the climate. We're just too insignificant in the scope of the climate.
2007-11-02 06:22:38 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes and No..Man will always ask for more things even though they already have the things they want...No,because as the world population is increasing,there is a need for more houses to be built so forests have to be cut down and burned to build houses..Burning of rubbish are also needed because of growing population as i have said..I hope this information helps!
2007-11-02 05:54:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. The climate was changing long before we got here.
2007-11-02 06:20:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Archeology is technology. we actually could learn it and notice what has exceeded off in the previous. international warming and cooling is customary and organic and is merely no longer prompted by potential of the pitiful efforts of people.
2017-01-04 18:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it is simply the natural cycle on warming and cooling the earth has be going through for hundreds of millions of years
2007-11-02 05:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by Jan Luv 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋