| epsilon72 said: Oh please....not another one. Is pollution bad? Yes. Do I personally enjoy exploring and learning about nature, animals and such? Yes. Do we have to crush our economy and radically change our lives to pander to this blown out of proportion hoax? Hell no. |
Bolded is greatly untrue.
As I mentioned, watch "An Inconvient Truth". At the end Gore shows that we do not have to do dramtic changes to immediately affect global warming for the better.
Simply remove all regular light bulbs with halogen, which I personally don't understand why you wouldn't want to use them, has a dramatic change across the board in terms of energy consumption which in turn reduces the waste put out by electricity plants.
Combine that with realistic drop in emissions in newer vehicles, which Europe and other countries have already began implementing, and that actually causes the rate of change to level off.
The problem is there are too many people who get very rich based on how things are now and these changes will cause them, not us, to lose some money. Therefore, they push their agenda to our wonderful lobbiest system and help stop change.
Need proof, google the history of Home Depot and ceiling fans. HD almost single handingly stopped all legislature that would have forced them to be dramatically more energy efficient. However, since HD owns a very large percentage of the ceiling fan business these changes would have cost them a decent chunk of income. Thus, they used their lobbying powers to stop ALL pressure to make the fans more efficient.
Search Tesla motors. They have already proved you can make a viable electric car that uses NO OIL and produces no emissions. Granted, it would cause you to use more electricity, but the energy consumption in that exchange is far less than the current gasoline powered vehicles.
Actually read about the Kyoto Accords that the current administrations turned their noses up to. These changes would not have killed our economy, etc, blah blah.
We (US) produce more waste than the next few countries combined. We should spend more money to fix the problem since we are the primary cause. Soon, though, we won't have that title. China and India are quickly catching us and with a much larger population they will certainly be the nail in the Earth's coffin if we don't change soon and guide them in the same direction.
Again, I encourage all of you to put aside stupid political leanings and just watch "An Inconvient Truth". It is really a well done, purely scientific look at global warming.
