Corporations, industries and entreprises must face this, not us. We can only make some pressure on them, but that pressure is insignificant compared to the their own interests and objectives. Only when those interest and objectives where seriously affected by the global warming, they will take real action on that.
Only bad managers start to act, when it is already too late. The good one invest soon so they can reap in the future. Global warming, if ignored, would do big economic damage and nobody wants that.
One of the main ways people are encouraged to reduce their CO2 emissions is by constantly reminding them that they are saving money by doing so. This is true. Yet consider what happens when someone 'saves' money. What do they do with this money? They either spend it or put it into a bank (very few people keep their savings at home). Yet by doing either of these things, people in an indirect way contribute again to global warming. Money placed into the banking system benefits the economy, as banks use money to invest. This leads to economic growth, which, at the end of it all, is based upon a carbon based economy which releases CO2. Obviously, purchasing something has a much more direct impact on CO2 emissions - items require CO2 for their production, transport etc. So it seems that in order to reduce CO2 emissions at all it would be necessary to entirely wean ourselves off oil. No amount of avoidance of CO2 emissions will reduce global warming unless their very source is first eliminated. But the global economy is addicted to oil and fossil fuels. How can we, as a planet, coordinate such a massive project as a conversion to non-fossil fuel CO2 free alternatives? How could countries possibly accept the economic consequences of such an action? We can't and they won't. Any attempts by average people to reduce CO2 emissions are useless, and the problem is nearly impossible to solve on a large scale. What a useless endeavor.
What?!? We should not reduce our emissions, because that would increase our emissions? We are luckily working on cleaner technologies. They will save us money. This money can be re-invested into research and development and make our technology even greener and more energy-efficient.
I'm not saying we shouldn't reduce our emmissions because that would increse them, I'm saying that reducing our emmissions on a personal level doesn't have an overall impact on our emmissions because of the net increase created by economic growth. Yes we're working on greener technology, but a) The majority of the money saved doesn't go into reinvestment into greener technology, it goes into the CO2 reasing economy as a whole and b) This technology is nowhere near to being a viable alternative to fossil fuels.
Even if we are now addicted to fossil fuels, we will have to start a conversion to non-fossil fuel sooner or later. As you know, the amount of fossil fuel, which emerged in millions of years, is limited and we already consumed huge amounts of it. There is no reason to wait until fossil fuels become a scarce and expensive resource, before we start that energy conversion project.
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As you can see, my argument is longer than yours so I have given it more thought than you. therefore, my argument should prevail. Let the masses decide with their votes! ! !
Let the masses decide?!?! What was i thinking? I should have stuffed the ballot.
Oh, what next? Am I gonna get banned?
Combating a natural process is useless, but that doesn't detract from the value of clean technologies. I'm still all for cold fusion, think of all the air conditioners we could run!
It's useless because enough people are not willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
The world has been warming and cooling and warming and cooling since it curled up into a big blue ball. global warming is not a hoax, it's a natural occurrence that is sinusoidal with global cooling. That said, mankind should work to minimize our negative impact on this planet or else she'll find a way to do away with us, after which, she'll clean herself off and keep doing what she's done for millions of years. We're entirely too full of ourselves. About the only long term impact we can have on mother earth is to eliminate our ability to survive on her...she'll be fine.
The planet taking natural temperature rises is much ado bout nothing.
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Assuming that there is a chance that global warming exists, it would be monumentally stupid to ignore it and go about our lives merrily. If we don't do something now or at least monitor global weather closely we may end up growing gills like some bad Kevin Costner movie.
The increased occasions of natural disasters should be apparent to anyone. Soon countries will start to lose inhabited coastline to the rising sea-levels. Maybe that will convince the doubters of global warming that immediate action is required. Do what you can right now, to conserve energy and reduce waste. It is the intelligent thing to do.
Many things contribute to the change in temperature of the Earth. If none of them were the result of human interference, then we would merely be at the whim of the universe (fate, God, whatever). However, if there is even the slightest chance that something we do may delay or alleviate the changes, shouldn't we at least try?
Global warming is due to civilized people releasing green house gasses into the atmosphere as they go about their normal lives. If we reduce the amount of these green house gasses escaping into the atmosphere, we should be able to slow global warming. We can reduce the amount of these green house gasses escaping into the atmosphere by reducing the number of civilized people on the planet. This solution also has the added bonus of eliminating rush hour traffic. However, an unfortunate side effect will be an increase in the number of stupid people on the planet. If we take them out too, we may be able to find a nice balance. Since we wont be able to burn the bodies (due to the generation of green house gasses) we will need mass graves. These graves should provide a fertile ground for trees to grow on and help reduce the green house gasses already in the atmosphere. As we start offing the stupid people, starting with terrorist, the media will lose part of its entertainment value but regain it by switching to a format like "bad boys" where they follow Global Warming Relief Units around as they whack stupid people and people who aren't "green." Staffing the Global Warming Relief Units will lower unemployment and may boost our economy. Oh, wait. I just thought of something else. Before offing the "stupid non-greens," they can be forced to operate giant turbines in order to generate clean electricity for fuel. Brilliant! ! ! Any way, I'm sure that other people can come up with more ideas. I just wanted to get the ball rolling. I hate it when people just throw their hands up in the air and say, "There's nothing practical we can do about Global Warming!" Rubbish!
mmm, Very good and valid points, however I dissagree with your fundamental premise, that CO2 is the main player. Rather, it is the sun, so we should build a dysonsphere with the energy of the said stupid people and use it to colonise mars with the labour of again, the said stupid people.
Even if it's useless now, at this point, we should push to clean up our act. If it were up to me, I would have all of the people in the U.S. deported, and then use it as a landfill and then drop the entire worlds nuclear arsenal on it. Nuclear winter plus global warming = normal. I do think that there's no way to do this though, not on any scale, unless you MAKE the world listen, and participate. It's fucked up, I know, but that's the only way you're going to get every person to just shut up and change their life styles to suit the earth. There are too many of us now, and life is so complicated... I cannot see it happening any other way.
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