Who to Believe

My response to the 'global warming is fake' crowd.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• politics
• environment
• environmentalism
• toxins
• waste
• symbiosis
• global
• warming
• dicaprio
• earth
• health
• conservation

[trenton9]

The earth is not overpopulated. Maybe a city or town is but the solution in that case is to move, not halt the population. If global warming isn't real the worst that can happen by adopting policies that "they" say is beneficial, is people dieing. i.e. the food riots caused by inaccessible prices in poorer regions, a consequence of converting a third of world food crops to biofuel. Internet language can be cold, so let me assure that I'm saying all this with no hostility.

[whatUneverknew]

@trenton9 - no hostility percieved, you're entitled to your opinion. People ARE dying of starvation and it has nothing to do with biofuel. Sharing is a problem, and that has nothing to do with population. My personal issue with the population (aside from how much material we convert into toxins) is the fragility of our gigantic system structures more than body proximity. It's difficult to separate these connected issues into short comments. =P

[gwheyduke]

Good Video "We have already run out of space for the garbage. The world is complicated, The air is thin. Nature is subtle. Human capacity to cause harm is is great. We must be more careful and much less forgiving about polluting our fragile atmosphere."

Have you read Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan?

[whatUneverknew]

@gwheyduke - I've not, but I love Carl Sagan. thx!

[azguard98]

Content is decent, work on your presentation. Also, what's the motivation to act now? You argue that, if GW were fake, we're still polluting. So? So a million years from now we're gonna kill ourselves - that doesn't inspire anyone to act now. I agree with everything you said, but I think our cause needs something with more inspiration.

[whatUneverknew]

@azguard98 - Perhaps I didn't get accross clear enough that change takes a long time and should be started as soon as a problem is seen. Are global warming stats 'doctored' to look more pressing than they are for the purpose of getting a fire under people because we like to ignore the dripping faucet until we're drowning? I think saying we're going to drown in 10 years when it's really 20 is detrimental because it can be shown as false, then it gets ignored. For the record - THIS IS URGENT! =)

[kimxxxyyy]

Human communitys should be only about 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference.

[andreiuta171]

there is a difference between garbage (pollution) and CO2. i would rather take those billions of dollars used for research in the CO2 impact on the environment and spend them on cleaning our planet. that would make sense. i don`t like spending billions of dollars on weather predictions. weather is far to complex for us to fully predict even with all the money in the world. why don`t they spend money on preparing for weather change? we know it will happen with or without our help.

[trenton9]

@whatUneverknew

Yes, people have been starving since the beginning of time.  However, the increased clamor for food as of recent, can factually be traced to the conversion of farms that once contributed to food being instead converted to biofuel production, which in turn caused a rise in worldwide food prices.

[feralcamero]

@stuntbaby63 you are delusional in your belief that basic arithmetic and the laws of physics do not apply to you somehow. The fact is that regardless of whether or not you see yourself as a "bad" person, as long as you promote ignorance on the most pressing issue of our time, then you ARE bad. You are evil personified and your belief system is a cancer on civilization. I'm sure that the most evil people throughout history believed they were good people. See Socrates for his thoughts on this.

[taoaoal]

you basicly stated the most obvious and simple solutions to the majority of our worlds problems. Problem is they will not be carried out because we take for granted what we have atm and do not have a mature understanding that it will NOT last for ever. We are being tested.

[gwheyduke]

You do have a choice! Follow the money! The oil and coal (fossil fuel) Corporations are trying to protect their profits by denying the Fact that they are causing global climate change.