Whenever I ask any question on the subject of Climate Change on here, every single time the vast majority of answerers write about how bad it will be if/when governments attempt to implement measures to reverse anthropogenic global warming (AGW), and the greater climate crisis that includes AGW.
all talk about higher taxes, higher interest rates, more control and enforcement by government to limit your freedoms, massive pay cuts and lay offs across the board, higher unemployment rates, more people living at or below the poverty line, and any of 1000 other fears related to your suspicion that acting in an environmentally responsible manner is too hard, too burdensome, or unneccesary.
do none of ya'll, not a single person who has answered any of my climate change questions, consider or think about the great benefits and improvements to our lives, lifestyles, way of living, interacting, communicating, helping, and loving each other that will come from a change in thinking? Hello Vlad: I agree it is not convenient for people who currently profit from the utilisation (burning or killing) of natural resources (trees, coal, oil), including people who drive motor vehicles, and that's the point.
inconvenience will increase until it is more convenient to convert to renewable energy, and reducing, reusing, recycling, and repairing the things we have now.
Dave: It's easy for your mind to skip from denial to despair without stopping in the middle part where we actually do something about this crisis.
wasn't a question, because I've come back from despair myself so I know what it's like.
Linlyons: I agree with all of that, but there is still hope. We have a chance to set things right. We need only try.
Amiram a: Global warming is anthropogenic enough for this to be a crisis, and it can be solved. It doesn't matter if solar output is increasing, or whatever, because our impact is significant and preventable.
ideas on what changes need to be made to our way of living are true, yet incomplete.
you have ommitted the most significant driver of this issue: the population explosion in the poorer countries.
has to deal with this issue: every man, woman and child on Earth must contribute to this cooperative venture in order for us to be successful. No exceptions! Poorer countries use less energy per person, and their total output of greenhouse gasses are significantly less than western countries, but they must learn to control their population. As their standard of living improves with the implementation of renewable energy infrastructure, their emmission will also fall, but the western world must embrace it first, on a mass scale, for this to work.
again Homesteader: at the end of your answer, you say you hope we can rise to this challenge and make the world better.
does better mean to you? Because it certainly won't be convenient to live like that, which seems to be what most answerers on here want: Their consumerist, wasteful, convenient, “instant gratification” lifestyle.
everything we buy is on credit, because it's too hard to wait for something wanted now. We westerners have become a complacent, immature, childish people, and perhaps some (limited) government enforced discipline on environmental resposibility is not a bad idea: don't throw garbage on the street, smoking kills, drink drive and your a bloody idiot, red meat consumption leads to heart disease, etc, etc.
biggest obstacle to having a green world is that corporations are required by law to pathologically persue profit and power at any cost. We must reshape law to make raw living nature more valuable than dead extracted natural resources.
