Am i wrong about "going green"?

Question

Ok i just feel that there is really nothing wrong with our planet. Its a natural process that happens to the Earth. Why do you think Greenland is covered in ice? Because when it was discovered it was green! As is with Iceland which has its cold icy parts but is mostly green with grass and trees. I feel like our country is going overboard with this whole "going green" thing but tell me if im wrong because if i am i want to do something to help but i need solid proof.

Answer 1

'Going green' doesn't necessarily mean trying to stop global warming.  To me, it means doing as much as possible to preserve our natural areas.  If we didn't consume as much crude oil, fewer trees would have to be cut down, thus protecting forests and wildlife.  I do research on reclaiming oil wellsites, in northern Canada and thousands of acres of forest are cut down every year, to cut paths through the forest to get to possible sites where oil might be, and to set up drilling rigs to search for the oil.  Most of these sites don't even have oil reserves, they are abandoned after they are drilled.  The soil is (as far as we know) irreversibly altered such that trees DON'T grow back to full productivity, even after 30 years.  Now companies are drilling in wetlands - vast areas that filter our fresh water and are extremely delicate.  If we lower our demand and think more carefully about when we purchase products that come from crude oil (including all plastics AND clothing!!), the less exploration that needs to be done, preserving these ecologically sensitive areas.

That is why I have gone green.  We are loosing wildlife and plant diversity due to our encroachment on pristine areas.  That is enough to make me think about these things

cheers!

Answer 2

Greenland has always had ice on it but, some parts are 'green'.  There is a scientific consensus that global warming is because of man.

Answer 3

This is my thought on the whole green concept.  Do we need to take better care of our planet, yes.  But to say that we know that we are effecting it to cause the climate to change is a bit premature.  I don't think that we have studied weather patterns long enough to know what we are doing to the environment.  I think that we have really only started studying the weather for about a hundred years or so.

Answer 4

it might be a natural process, but that doesn't mean that we aren't slowly destroying our planet.

Answer 5

World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.  The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases.

Answer 6

scientists agree that the climate change is caused by human activity. And even if you don't believe that, how bad is it to change a few lightbulbs, plant some trees, and watch how much gas you use?

Answer 7

Its true, it is a natural process however, we humans are accelerating the process, thats all.

Answer 8

Greenland was always icey. People wanted iceland so they said it was icey and told others that greenland was grren and they could grow crops on it but they couldn't. We need to be way more  green though because of global warming, the green house gases, and the ozone layer.

Answer 9

People are in denial about the mess this planet is in. Global warming is just one possible outcome caused by selfish consumerism and wasteful lifestyles.

Plastic junk is washing up on our shores, acid from mines are polluting water, our seas are overfished, there's toxic waste everywhere and you think theres nothing wrong???

Wake up and smell the garbage!

Answer 10

I think you are wrong. All of this c**p that our earth has to suffer is NOT natural! We are inventing all this stuff that harms our planet and home and landfills of all this c**p. I am going green because I do not want MY children to have to live in this. I think you should do the same.

Answer 11

It was wonderful to see beautiful green in those areas that are normally covered in ice

You had better accept global warming its really happening some time it depends on where you live some Parts of Australia are so dried out the soil is cracking,some of us had the worst summer on record so yep I sure do believe its all happening