Don't You Think We Should Do Something About It?

Question

Ok, we all know Global Warming is killing us and our world, so shouldn't WE do something about it? While most adults refuse to believe it because they are to stuborn and can't admit that they do anything wrong we KIDS need to start doing something! If you're with me, tell me and we can start a national group "Kids Rising To Power"

Answer 1

adults are being stubborn and they need to realize that they are leaving a mess that the kids of today are eventually going to have to clean up. if they really cared about us they'd realize how bad of an enviorment they are leaving us to live in

Answer 2

Being you are a liberal kid you might not be able to understand that man-made global warming is a hoax!
Read these articles anyway!

Ponder the Maunder, a scientific factual paper by a 15 year old: http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaunder/

Dishonest Political Tampering with the Science on Global Warming: http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/article.cfm?artId=22430

Americans Pay for Emerging World Government: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=1385637>

Answer 3

Nothing is ever going to be done. People will continue to use fossil fuels, cut trees, and all the other stuff that contributes to 'global warming'. Maybe when the kids of today grow up, the cars will run on hydrogen or electricity, but I doubt it. Government will always support whatever pays them the most (such as oil) no matter which party is in charge. It is human nature to be wasteful. It is also human nature to want to help. The two cross themselves out. You have folks, such as yourself, that want to help and will go buy a hybrid, or use less water or electricity. Then you have those who admit to a problem and say we need to stop doing bad things, but they continue to do it themselves (Al Gore among them). The planet has been changing for a very long time thru natural actions like volcanic eruptions. The industrial age has only been going on for a few seconds in the great timeline that is Earth's history. Man's impact on nature is minimal at best. Yes it's bad when the rain forest gets chopped down, or a factory puts out pollution, but it's going to go on until the inevitable extinction of human-kind. Even if we all stopped wasting resources and trying to clean up the world, it's still going to happen. The moon is loosing it's orbit. Al Gore ain't gonna tell you that. As it goes farther out, the Earth will tilt more (wobble). That will cause climate change in-of-itself. Imagine California where Alaska is. Granted it'll take longer to change the climate, but it will happen. Floods will change the landscape, islands will vanish, fields become desert, and desert becomes fertile.
I do my part, when I can. I have to drive my gas powered vehicle to work. My 18 wheeler uses fossil fuels to deliver food and clothing to stores across America. My house uses electricity fed by coal burning power plants. And the most important thing of all, toilet paper, comes from trees. We can all do our part, but what about other countries. They don't want to stop. They just want us to. One country working on the solution doesn't solve the problem. A problem that has been going on for over 100 years.
It's admirable that you and some of your generation want to fix the problem. Maybe there will be enough of you when you get older and can get elected into office that a real solution will be found. But that's where the change has to be made. You can't sit around on the sidelines and gripe about the problem. Become a member of congress or the senate...or even President.....and do what you say (just say no to raising taxes).

Answer 4

I do think we should so something about it as younger adults. I often find just leading by example to be a good way to get people to change. I recycle all of the time and give my friends crap if I see them tossing things away when they could reuse them. Some of my friends and I just made a website for people to post things that they might not be able to recycle locally i.e. certain parts commonly used in your home, car or electronics. We have had the site up for a week but little to no users except spam yet so we are thinking maybe only a few people really do care out there.

Answer 5

Sure, you can do a lot. But it would require an ACTUAL change of lifestyle.

Here's an example of NOT changing: Buying a Prius. It's the same thing painted green. Nothing really changed, it's still a car, still burning gas, still doing the personal-automobile sprawl thing, still an insane, unsustainable amount of energy use.

If you wanted to change just yourself, then you could move to a transit-friendly part of Vancouver, Seattle, Portland or San Francisco and ride hydroelectric-powered public transit. (actually quite a fine lifestyle, I've done it myself.) You could grow your own garden, buy local sustainable foods etc. You could buy personal carbon offsets. Stop buying cheap overseas junk, because the pollution to make it and ship it here is obscene. But wait - that's a big change. I bet I just lost you :(

Now to REALLY create change, become an evangelist. One person can change the world in big ways. But that requires an even bigger lifestyle commitment, and one that may not be compatible with living sustainably yourself. (Al Gore's problem, how do you do the public education roadshows without burning fuel?)

For instance you could get involved in the technology side of things. Can we engineer our way out of this? How do we create the lifestyle we want in a way that's sustainable for the earth? How do we convince people to build houses in a new way, that essentially heat and cool themselves? How do we convince Detroit to build better cars that are also zero carbon? (hint: lose the pistons, but they know that.) These things are absolutely possible today, but they suffer from lack of education, and that's where evangelism and "teaching by doing" come in.

Answer 6

My kids would tell you to grow up, and join reality.
To stop believing the lies that they are pushing today. Not 20 years ago, they told us we were heading into a time of global cooling, so which is it?

Answer 7

I will consider it after I fill up my SUV. Go to the grocery store and when they ask if I want paper or plastic; paper of course. Wow it is sure cold here in the Midwest, let me turn up my thermostat so it will be nice and warm, when I come in from clearing snow from the driveway with my smoking 2-cycle snow blower.

Answer 8

yes you need to start and help. first of all the environment is going to die. there are alot of trees being cut, jungles being mowed down and lots of animals dying because their habitat is dying out. its global warmig that is goind. you have to stop this and start things maybe on the internet to help and let people see. now days its hotter up north more so then before. the ozone is eating away the north and south poles its proven. help sway pepople to help take care.

Answer 9

it depends... how old ARE you?? cause if your,like, 9 no way but you have a good point.