do you think that it is not necessary to clean up pollution at all? athsma cases are at a record high, pollution puts heavy metals into our drinking water. conservation brings the cost of consumer goods down, or since you can afford what you need it does'nt matter to you?
2007-12-17 11:45:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
jeeze people sorry to have soo insulted you ! I appreciate the thorough answers. and i myself am still on the fence about global warming. but i work with people who pollute on purpose and think it is stupid to recycle. these people tell me they hope it does warm up. i just want to know other's opinions.
2007-12-17 13:12:23 · update #1
Global Warming and Pollution are different topics. They are related in some cases. For eg. when you drive a conventional car about 70% of the fuel gets wasted as heat and lot of exhaust comes out of the tail pipe. Here you have an equipment that is wasting energy in form of heat as well as causing pollution, thus contributing to pollution and warming.
Actually the earth does go thru warming and cooling cycles as claimed by scientists but this happens over a very long period so that the species get time to adapt.
What is happening today is lot of new technologies are being introduced and use without considering their overall impact on the environment in terms of warming as well as pollution. One classic example is chemical pesticides and fertilizers, largescale use of these has caused the ground water to get contaminated, and the crop produce has actually started going down. Added to it the rapid climatic changes due to Golbal Warming and we see sudden drop in agriculture produce or even famines.
We are rapidly consuming the existing natural resources that have supported human life for thousands of years and at the same time we are introducing new technologies that are impacting our environment, this is impacting the environment in adverse manner. We are causing pollution and warming at a rate that is too fast for other animal species and our selves to adapt. Thus causing extinction of many animal species.
Mankind may survive this too if our genes get time to adapt and morph into some kind of chemical composition that can survive this poison and heat etc, we may just not be the same again.
2007-12-17 17:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by funnysam2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be a victim of statistics manipulation. Athsma cases will continue to rise. Why? Because the population continues to rise. 1 in 10 people is the same percentage as 10 out of 100 people. BUT you can say there has been a 1000% increase in the numbers reported.
If you can list your source, I would be happy to read it.
Our drinking water (link below) is one of the most regulated and monitored things in the US by the EPA. Sadly, most people drink bottled water which is hardly regulated by the FDA and cost more than gasoline. If the plastic bottles dont get recycled, they are dumped in landfils. And yes, imagine all the polution created to ship tons and tons of water from the source to the bottling company to the wholeseller to the store and to people's homes every single day. When it's practicllay free from the tap.
BTW, I am all for conservation and recycling.
2007-12-17 13:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by Fumble 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a naysayer. Efforts to reduce pollution are good and I try to practice things like recycling, energy conservation, and as far as consumption I'm of the use it up, try to fix it or try to go without it before buying something new way of thinking.
I just think that if global warming is happening it is part of the natural warming and cooling cycle that has been going on forever.
Has the Earth been warmer in the past? Yes a lot warmer and it wasn't a bad thing.
I am really suspicious as to why global warming has been elevated to almost religion status. And anyone that questions anything has now become a Traitor, denier or naysayer.
2007-12-17 11:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by kevin s 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know who you listen to, but for over 30 years the USA has been cleaning up pollutions. Most cities are more livable and pollution free than 30 years ago even as they have grown 2-5 times in population. Most Water ways & lakes are also much cleaner.
Asthma is a function of diet = lots of process foods and a lack of omega 3s.
Conservation adds to the costs to consumers - but I think it's worth it.
Having seriously studied the SUN - I realize the insignificance of man and reject the idea that man can effect nature.
CO2 found in nature vastly overwhelms the very little that man can produce.
http://www.nov55.com/gbwm.html
Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Evans-CO2DoesNotCauseGW.pdf
For Fumble - Asthma - there are 100s more sites I could cite
Drug VS Non-drug approaches to inflammation
http://www.asthmaworld.org/asthma-OMEGA3.htm
http://www.mercola.com/beef/omega3_oil.htm
It takes about 6 mos. - 1 yr. to rebuild cell membranes in the whole body
2007-12-17 12:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by Rick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I get it. Global warming belief: yes=genius and no=idiot, and it HAS to be because of human CO2 emission or you get abused the same as a Bush supporter.
However, we should deal with all the things you mention regardless of global warming. Even if the temperature outside is a pleasant 68 degrees, it is irrelevant if you're too sick from pollution to get out of bed. Naysayers will probably agree with you on this.
2007-12-17 11:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by Action 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're confused. Just because someone doesn't accept the dogma of global warming, doesn't mean that they're pro pollution. Hardly the case. The two are not related.
Most people who don't accept global warming are ardent and staunch environmentalist.
They just tend to be independent thinkers where believers tend to follow what other people tell them.
2007-12-17 11:54:31 · answer #6 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The USA has enacted HUNDREDS of environmental laws. As someone has already said ---- it is a multi billion dollar industry in the USA!
Global warming skeptics also believe that the environment should be protected.
2007-12-17 12:21:04 · answer #7 · answered by Bullseye 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think reducing CO2 leads to more sustainable development? Making energy more expensive will actually hurt the real environment because resources will be wasted on reducing CO2 when they could be spent on better land use policies.
2007-12-17 22:05:22 · answer #8 · answered by Raven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like with any issues, some will support it and some will be against it. Most people are selfish and they think that this won't effect them in their life time so they don't care...
2007-12-17 17:47:09 · answer #9 · answered by gannoway 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually, global warming is worse than most people think...the big problem being it escalates exponentially with the population, not proportionately.
2007-12-17 11:54:33 · answer #10 · answered by billydeezx 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋