How far green would you go -say giving up your car -no gas or electric-reusable everything?

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How far green would you go -say giving up your car -no gas or electric-reusable everything?

Answer 1

Going green means using new high efficiency modern technologies to reduce or complete eliminate emittions of toxic chemicals into the environment. Green also means reducing consumption --- buying and using less things. Some examples of going green are using CFL or LED lights, using renewable energy like solar and wind, driving electric or hybrid cars, and buying organic products.

I have gone as green as my budget can allow. I didn't have to give up my house and go live in the forrest, or ride a bike 10 miles to buy groceries. Hopefully in the future everyone and everything will be 100% green. But that's going to take decades, maybe even centuries. Some people still believe going green means living in the wild, at one with nature. Yes, that is the ultimate way of going green, but that is almost impossible and completly unnecessary. We don't have to destroy everything we have created, we just need to upgrade our creations into more earthfriendly, less costly things, and for now, that is the best way to go.

Answer 2

ther is NO way i'm giving up my impala ss or my race car, NO way.

i'm not giving up electricity either. sorry.

i take that back. i'd do solar IF it was economical to do it.

currently it isn't, and never has been.

i do use scrap wood for heat.

it keeps me warm for free AND keeps it out of a landfill. so economically, both the builder and i win.

if all you guy would walk the walk, and get 5% of the population that "care so much about the enviroment" to do so, we'd have a 5% drop in global warming in 24 hrs.

but you guys won't. instead you'll  just talk the talk.

Answer 3

No gas? Working in next town, I'd have to give up my job and go on welfare. See doctor? In next town, 52 miles away. Buy groceries?  In this town 20-30% higher.  Will have to shoot an extra moose or two. Oh, darn that's poaching . Will have to report myself and stay in jail till I finsh whatever sentence I get since I can't pay the fine. At least I'll eat 3 squares and have a roof over my head.

You people that help, invent , bring in , formulate laws in the cities have no idea of the hardship you cause people who don't live or work in the same enviroment as you do. We don't have buses up here , no taxis, alll the convenient services you have.

Some day, shortly, All the taxes you have been collecting off the jacked up prices of cigarettes  will come to an end . Then we will see you, who have been bi*ching the most about smoke and second / third hand smoke,  shelling out the shortfall that the politicians have so gotten used to having . LOL LOL

Answer 4

I wouldn't go green.

Answer 5

That is what we will have to do to stop Global Warming is the scientists are correct.

The best scientists say in the IPCC reports that we must reduce our carbon dioxide emissions to less that one tenth of what they are today.

To get those kinds of reductions we will have to shut down our entire economy.

We will have to shut down all motorized transportation including electric because most electricity is generated by the use of coal or natural gas.

Also, note to the responder that uses the name of dad:

The link that you cite it to a scam that claims thay have figured out how to have controlled hydrogen fusion.

They make you pay a licensing fee for their technology, however their technology does not work.

Anyone who sends these characters money will lose that money and will have nothing to show for it.

Sorry to the guy who calls himself "dad". I wish I had better news for you.

Answer 6

Why go there when all you have to do is go hear . http://www.first-molecule.com   Someone needs to get a news station on this guy if he is for real then it would make all of us very wealthy and save the world . I would do it but i have no idea how to go about it or even know where to start. We sure need to get some kind of clean cheap energy going just to save the economy. Click on the technical overview and license details . Would be neat if it works

Edit  ; Thanks for the info Dennis c  but is this something you know for a fact did you investigate or is it just a guess from past experiences you had from other company's . That's why i would like to have like a news team interview him and others that claim there invention works. If it does i and the world sure would hate to lose out on it to some other country. Remember they thought Einstein was insane at first to.

Answer 7

As much as is practical. I'm not going to sacrifice my quality of life when it may or may not make a difference. I'm not going to live without electricity, drive an unsafe car, or not have a car at all. I will keep my electricity usage as low as I can by not being wasteful, I only drive when I go out of town, etc.

Answer 8

We can't go back. To many people. I lived as a child in a home with 10 people on 80 Acres. We were self-sufficient. Grew our food, Had one "Money Crop" for a little money for some things we couldn't make ourselves. No electricity. We canned veggies, butchered and smoked pork and beef. Ground enough of the corn for our grits, and the rest was for animals food. Cut wood for our heat and cooking fires. Drew water from well with a bucket. Hunted for rabbit, squirrel, deer, and gators. Fished a lot also. Most everyone we knew also lived the same way. This was in North Florida where we had mild winters, lots of game and fish, and pine forests.

As you can see from the description above, it took a lot of labor, land area, and natural resources. There are way to many people today to do this. Also, with all the environmental and other regulations on food, animal hunting, human rights, child labor laws, etc., etc., everyone would have to be law breakers.

Answer 9

I would give up everything/anything as long as it didn't change my way of life too much

Answer 10

Why would you do that?

Being green doesn't mean giving up everything.  Poverty is also a bad environment.  It's scientifically proven that it kills people.

We don't have to stop doing things to be green.  We just need to do them more efficiently.

One example.  If everyone just bought the smallest car that meets their real needs, instead of buying a big SUV because it "feels good", we'd be a lot better off.

Being green is not that hard.

Answer 11

I think they should use a cleaner fuel now they know how much pollution OIL causes!  surely man can find a clean one & they have but the big oil companies rule!

We as little people just need to do small bits to help

I still say when the oil wells were set on fire in IRAQ that caused major damage & Shonival  blowing up (how ever you spell it ) in Russia (NUCLEAR POWER  PLANT)

Answer 12

I would not go that far.  However, I do use compact flourescent lightbulbs, keep my thermostat set at 62 in the winter and 80 in the summer, commute by bicycle 2 days a week and drive a low emissions/high mpg vehicle.

Answer 13

green doesn't mean we have to go back to pre-historic way of life.

we have to be more modern instead. i mean we have to try to invent something that helps our live (even if its another electronic things) but doesn't have any harm to the environment.

Answer 14

I think a lot of assumptions are being made in some of these responses.  We began in circumstance without cars, electricity, disposable items, and without many other things we take for granted.  Everything in the current situation suggests we are moving back toward that situation.  It is NOT a matter of our decision whether or not we choose to do without these things, but rather a matter of whether we choose to relearn the forgotten skills to survive in a world without them.

Unless of course the current situation can be changed.  For the time being, that too is a choice.

Answer 15

We could go back to living in caves too. That would be using Geo-thermal heating and cooling, how green. Having the wife pull the till for farming the land would go over big at home too. Horses are a bigger polluter than cars. If we stopped using cars the economy would slow down until it collapsed. Why go backwards? Wouldn't it be better to use a better means of getting around instead of not going anywhere?

Put a photovoltaic array on your roof and use it to power an electric vehicle so that you don't use any gasoline at all. That is one thing to do and the technology is at our finger tips now. Instead of thinking negative about transporting yourself get creative and think of a new way to get from A to B.