Who is responsible for reversing the effects of global warming?

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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    I'm with you OLS, and Evenflow. Can I come live with you two?

    Coasts are beginning to disappear now. It may be only happening at such a small level that the eye doesn't notice it, but they are. Pay attention to where the levels are at now, and come back in 5 years time and see where they are then. Predictions of sea levels are due to rise dramatically in the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of what people want to think, global warming and exhaustion of natural resources will be the contributing causes of the end of our civilization. Why people aren't thinking about their children's world when they grow up and helping the Earth while we can, escapes me. People are in denial to think that we're going outlive everything. The only thing that will outlive us is the mountains of plastic surrounding the globe 5 times over.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Jeanwah wrote:
    I'm with you OLS, and Evenflow. Can I come live with you two?

    Coasts are beginning to disappear now. It may be only happening at such a small level that the eye doesn't notice it, but they are. Pay attention to where the levels are at now, and come back in 5 years time and see where they are then. Predictions of sea levels are due to rise dramatically in the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of what people want to think, global warming and exhaustion of natural resources will be the contributing causes of the end of our civilization. Why people aren't thinking about their children's world when they grow up and helping the Earth while we can, escapes me. People are in denial to think that we're going outlive everything. The only thing that will outlive us is the mountains of plastic surrounding the globe 5 times over.

    you touched on what hurts me the most. i have grandchildren and i want the best for them. i want them to experience the world that i got to see. i want them to climb a mountain and see for hundreds of miles. when i was young and fished canada; all i could think of is bringing my children and grandchildren there. i wanted them to experience landing a 25 lb muskie. i wanted to teach them to survive in the wilderness and respect the earth. now i see the earth and know this is what they will inherit.

    we don't notice the rising waters because of erosion. it makes the beaches look normal. we only notice when houses fall into the ocean. my parents have a condo on the ocean in ft lauderdale and i remember a call i got from them. they went to walk on the beach and the water was up to the stairs.
    i haven't read the time article yet but i hope to. i want to see what they have to say. the ice the scientists predicted to be melted by 2050 is already melted.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/26/coverstory/index.html
  • Derrick
    Derrick Posts: 475
    It should be a government responsibility, through laws and education. They have the responsibility of protecting us, even if it means limiting personal liberties.

    for example
    - they have laws to ensure we don't drink and drive as that may hurt us or other drivers.
  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Derrick wrote:
    It should be a government responsibility, through laws and education. They have the responsibility of protecting us, even if it means limiting personal liberties.

    for example
    - they have laws to ensure we don't drink and drive as that may hurt us or other drivers.

    yet about 40,000 people die as a direct result of drunk drivers each year. we can't keep passing our responsabilities off on someone else. look at the uproar about the patriot act. it was meant to protect us and it did. hundreds of criminals were caught for bank fraud. i know this personally because i was dating someone that worked at the biggest bank in the us. we have laws for littering yet people still litter. where i live; wildfires are our biggest fear; yet drivers still throw cigarettes out their windows and start fires.

    we have to use common sense and take responsability for our actions. why do we NEED a law saying littering is wrong? isn't it common sense? do you like when someone throws garbage out their car window in front of your house? WE must take the responsability. the sad bit is that it's our children that will suffer. all because we didn't care enough about the world we leave them.
  • drew2420
    drew2420 Posts: 61
    Blame it on the tetons

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