Do you agree that the world should join as one and do more to tackle the effects of global warming?

Question

Do you agree that the world should join as one and do more to tackle the effects of global warming?

Answer 1

First we need the world to get off of CFC's, we have a new round out of Montreal but can not find what was agreed to. We need everyone on the same page. we can help them if they help themselves. So yes we have to be citizens of earth and put it first if we want to continue to live here. I would like to see a new round of open talks with everyone giving something.

Answer 2

That's never going to happen...

Answer 3

Nice idea pink ,but mankind is too stupid and greedy to do that.

Answer 4

Global warming will occour no matter what we do.

Answer 5

NO   global warming as they call it is a natural occurence that will happen no matter what man does its just another phase of the earths structure. But it has been seized upon by politicians and industrialists to create a subject to take our minds off the catastrophies that are happening throughout the world and it is also another great hype to charge us more for goods and to raise levies on products

Answer 6

Global warming is a joke designed to take money off us. It's reported today that Antarctica has more ice than ever and none is melting. It's also been one of the coldest winters ever, and all over the world.

Answer 7

The problem is a lack of statistical proof, which is impossible by definition in this situation because people are too stupid to trust even the most reasonable projections.

People who generalize on either side, who say 'there's nothing we can do' or 'we can do a lot, it'll be easy' are on the wrong track. Worst case scenario from reasonable projections, in 80-100 years the sea level rises a few feet, which will shave off miles in from our coast. This is half terrible, half comforting.

In the end, yes, not necessarily as one but as a diverse array of countries working together, will be necessary. And, it will happen. It already is.

While I love much about America, and I love that good old American skepticism and paranoia, it's a good thing the rest of the world isn't stupid enough to apply it to Global Warming.

Answer 8

Now folks, we are not asking about blame for global warming, but things like protecting cities in jeopardy of hurricanes like Katrina,,  building reservoirs and distribution systems so that we can survive severe and prolonged drought, like Georgia has had, beefing up flood control systems so that fewer people would be killed in floods.

I do feel that individual countries should evaluate how much they need to do, and can do. The scale of outside intervention will thus be kept down.

But many, knowing the inhospitability of all others in the world will look at what they can do, and not go on to evaluate what else needs to be done. Evaluating what needs to be done without assurance that it will be made possible is a political problem.

Answer 9

Oh yes, but it is not just global warming issues, until we all work together on all issues we will never tackle global warming and associated issues such as world peace, racial equality etc.

Answer 10

No I believe we should keep our own boundaries and come together to discuss equally beneficial remedy's to world suffering, trade, pollution.

Answer 11

Conflict theorists would tell you it'll never happen, because those with the power don't want to give it up.

Structural-functionalists would tell you it'll never happen because the differentiation of power between first and third world countries is what makes the world work.

So no matter how you slice it, it'd be great, but I'm not going to hold my breath.  I just do what I can today.

Answer 12

It is in it's infancy now but I believe it will become one of the many issues that will draw us together.  Whether we like it or not.

Answer 13

Yes.Stop talking and act NOW!! (directed to all governments)

Answer 14

Ah.For global warming, read 'excuse to raise more fuel taxes'.

Answer 15

Yes but sadly this will not happen until millions are affected by the consequences.

When cities like New York, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai and Tokyo are flooded and thousands or maybe tens of thousands are drowned or homeless and the financial institutions are facing ruin, then the idiots will realise that it is our only hope.

When the permafrost melts the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere will cause the death of us all.  All we can hope is that those who can make the necessary changes do so before it is too late.

Answer 16

The trick will be trying to convince people in the third world to give up on thier dreams of living better lives, give up on the dreams of owning a car, give up on thier dreams of lighting, toasters, washing machines, dryers, and air conditioning so that leftists in the industrialized countries can feel like they are saving them from themselves  and their dreams for a better life.

Answer 17

No.  Read "The Ideological War Within the West" by John Fonte and you will see who is pushing the GW hysteria.  The planet undergoes natural climate change.  After the end of the last Ice Age 10,500 yrs ago the climate was warmer than it is now. There was a cooling and then about 1000 there was another time when the world was warmer. The Vikings settled in Greenland and grew wheat.  Within about 200 years the Little Ice Age began and glaciers crushed Swiss villages and the Baltic Sea froze solid in winter.  This cold period gave way to gradual warming about 1800.  None of these changes had anything to do with Man.  Greenland is still too cold to grow wheat.

If Man disappeared tomorrow there would still be warming.  If you are really concerned and serious, consider that you exhale about 2.5 lbs of CO2 a day.  By your reasoning you are a polluter, destroying the world.  So STOP BREATHING!!!

Alternatively you could do some real on-line research, check out the anti-GW sites and the sites that give a history of the climate of the last 10,500 yrs.  During the periods of warmer climate there was more rain/snow and the deserts were smaller and moister, the tundra retreated and trees grew farther north.  There was more land open to animals and plants when the climate was warm.

Can the world join as one and stop volcanoes, earthquakes, storms and floods?  Of course not.  And the world cannot stop climate change.  The world can help to alleviate the effects of climate change by providing aid and new homes to those who need them.  Nations can build dikes to protect coastal cities and help people resettle inland.

Democracy and free market capitalism will do more than any government to help and Dictatorship and Socialism will just make everything worse.

Answer 18

Let's agree, this is a global issue and would probably give the world something that it can't argue about.  But unfortunatley the Fat Cats who have the largest control on global economics will never see the world as a place to defendk.  So this is too ideal, but I like your thinking.

Answer 19

No, we can do nothing to affect it. It isnt caused by us.