Badassbab said:
There are three train of thoughts based on the environmental problems we are facing- 1. We don't have much time and need to act fast and reverse all the damage we've done. This is the main school of though amongst mainstream scientists. 2. It's all a faux green movement/one world Government conspriracy to reduce the worlds population. This is the second most popular theory not really amongst scientists but amongst the Alex Jones conspiracy theory type and the right wing pro business only/ christian fundamentalist type. i.e God told Noah there won't be any more floods so Global Warming can't cause sea levels to rise. 3. It's much worse than even the mainstream scientists are saying and we are periously close to extinction if we don't act now. Most life on earth goes extinct at some point, humans are no different except it's self imposed. |
Your forgetting one.
4. Something needs to be done... (probably) but in general claims aren't as bad as can be expected as results ALWAYS seem to GREATLY underperfom just about any publisized climate model and in general the current proposals will cost more wealth in lost development then later better techniques would like geoengineering... general panic being caused by models that haven't really panned out with reality yet.
See Super Freakanomics as an example or...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203646004577213244084429540.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#
