Do you feel any personal guilt for the state of the environment?

Question

I do

Answer 1

After reading how much of an impact one person could have in one day, yes. However, there are 6 billion people on the planet and it's not just you, it's everyone.
You could do a few things to change so you won't feel as guilty.
1) Replace five incandescent lightbulbs in your home with compact fluorescents: Swapping those 75-watt incandescents with 19-watt CFLs can cut 275 pounds of CO2.


2) Instead of short haul flights of 500 miles or so, take the train and bypass 310 pounds of CO2.


3) Sure it may be hot, but get a fan, set your thermostat to 75 degrees and blow away 363 pounds of CO2.


4) Replace refrigerators more than 10 years old with today's more energy-efficient Energy Star models and save more than 500 pounds of CO2.


5) Shave your eight-minute shower to five minutes for a savings of 513 pounds.


6) Caulk, weatherstrip and insulate your home. If you rely on natural gas heating, you'll stop 639 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere (472 pounds for electric heating). And this summer, you'll save 226 pounds from AC use.


7) Whenever possible, dry your clothes on a line outside or a rack indoors. If you air dry half your loads, you'll dispense with 723 pounds of CO2.


8) Trim down on the red meat. Since it takes more fossil fuels to produce red meat than fish, eggs and poultry, switching to these foods will slim your CO2 emissions by 950 pounds.


9) Leave the car at home and take public transportation to work. Taking the average U.S. commute of twelve miles by light rail will leave you 1,366 pounds of CO2 lighter than driving. The standard, diesel-powered city bus can save 804 pounds, while heavy rail subway users save 288.


10) Finally, support the creation of wind, solar and other renewable energy facilities by choosing green power if offered by your utility. To find a green power program in your state, call your local utility or visit U.S. Department of Energy's Green Power Markets page. See also our Green Power Utilities Product Report.

Answer 2

Do I feel guilty for the state of the enviroment? absolutly not. This is not about asking myself have i acted foolishly to ruin the enviroment for others because i havnt, this is about the human races' evolution to the point where the planet cannot take the pressure. I understand the simple argument of 'i didnt ask to be born' doesnt cut it anymore. But nobody seems to realise that it is due to our comfortable lifestyles that we can think about such things as looking forward 500 years into the future. We see our little lives as the most important thing and are trapped in our own little egotistical prisons and ask questions like: Do i feel guilty about the state of the enviromet? Wow, what a good question. Do i also feel responsible for the problems in Darfur? what about Iraq? How about instead of looking for guilt to feel sorry for ourselves we go out to make a difference. Beyond changing you light bulbs to enviromentally friendly brands, sure it makes us feel good but how does it better humanity. How about we work towards stopping conflicts and feeding the starving, cliche i know. But sometimes put others beyond your own selfish desire. How about giving the money you were going use to buy your enviromentally friendly car with, to give it to a homeless person so he can turn his life around. maybe, maybe not.

Answer 3

Personally I don't. I personally don't polite the environments. It is the system we have inherited. For such problems there are no immediate solutions. World leaders are trying fix things and one Day we must get some solution.

Only discovering alternate sources of clean energy will solve the problem for which our scientists are on their work.

Just feeling guilty personally will not bring about any change to this global problem.

Answer 4

I take 100% responsibility for everything wrong with the environment.

Answer 5

Yes. Like goalie Denis Lemieux in the movie "Slapshot", for every drop of water or gallon of gas I use, I go to box, sit for two minutes by myself, and feel shame you know.

Answer 6

i do feel guilty..

i feel bad for the penguins! and polar bears.. and all of the other animals in the world..

they have done nothing to contribute to the problem. and they are the ones suffering..

we will soon have to get a charity together to build rafts for the penguins and polar bears

Answer 7

Not really..
I feel bad for not feeling bad, but I don't.

I think I should watch that movie from AL Gore, but I don't want to torture myself with more problems like the world ending :(

Answer 8

yes. i feel very guilty because i can't think of something that I could do myself. i'm also mad at everybody on earth for letting it get this far.

Answer 9

Yea, accepting guilt just because you're living.

Tell me that "global warming" isn't a religion.

Answer 10

No I Don't