How far will you personally sacrifice for global warming?

Question

How far will you personally sacrifice for global warming?

Answer 1

NOTHING AND NEVER

Answer 2

i don't own a car or use A/C even though it gets up to 32degrees C with 500% humidity sometimes.

Answer 3

My butler is giving up refried beans and driver will only take out the smaller Hummer when I go to the store and buy up all the incandescent lighbulbs I can find......well. lets face it......butler actually buys the bulbs but I go to the store.......well, actually I have driver drop me off at the club so I can have some frozen daquaris'.

Answer 4

I don't have to sacrifice anything--and neither does anyone else. That is amyth deliberately spread by special interests in an effort to undermine public suport for policy changes.

Here's what I mean--

>switching to compact flourescent bulbes (reducing overall electicity use 10%) SAVES me money--which I can then spend on othe rthings.

>I sue public transportation--and spend a tenth what people who own a car do. But for those who want--or need--a car, fuel efficient automobiles can cut gasooline use 30-50% (and will cost little, if any, more than todays cars)--that's money in the consumer's pocket which, again, can be spent on other things, enhancing lifestyle.

>things like imporoved insulation for homes, energy efficient appliences, etc. usually pay for the cost. No net "sacrifice"--jsut an up-front investment.

>things like solar enrgy are investments--they add to the value of a home and cut the cost of utilities. And, as prices continue to fall with the new technology coming onto the market, they will increasingly pay for themselves.

Investments by companie in new technologies like wind and solar--as well as the growing markets for solar energy, etc. are creating new jobs and businesses.

Now--there are some things that we'll give up: smog. traffic congestion as mass transit systems expand. All the other pollutants that enter our air and water from the use of fossil fuels.

Now, you tell me-where's the "sacrifice?" Unless you happen oto be an oil company executive  whow might have to settle for a 50 foot yacht instead of a 100-foot one?

Answer 5

We live 4 persons in my house, an we use les then 4.000kWh in one year, I do not think we can do it much better, but perhaps a littel.

Answer 6

There is nothing I won't do to stop global warming!

I have stopped wiping my *** with toilet paper in order to save trees.  Additionally, I have stopped bathing to conserve water.  I ride my bicycle to work and get nice and sweaty.

  I may be the greenest man on the planet (literally).

  Send me your e-mail address if interested.

Answer 7

I have been very conscious about how much I drive and the kinds of products I buy.  Generally, as a consumer, I think about the impact of the product I'm buying and how that product was made, etc.  I lower my heater and bundle up in the winter, open my windows and sparingly use the AC in the summer.  Have converted all my light bulbs to CFLs.  And recycle on occasion.  No one says we should go back to pre-industrialize living...just being aware of the impact you have in the environment and taking an actual effort helps the environment.

Answer 8

global warming can only be controlled if people work for it at personal level. Means, every Individual should think that the global warming will affect on their whole future. and only we are responsible for ruining our future generation's safe earth. We should think personally that we are making our beautiful and safe environment technically weak and hazardous for all of us.To protect it we should think personally and work globally.

Answer 9

Maybe my mind, if I keep believing ""ëxperts"" such as Al Gore et al.

Despite whatever the PC police say, Global Warming is NOT yet proven...

Answer 10

Personally I'm willing to empty as many as 12 aerosol cans a day into the air for the cause of Global Warming.

Answer 11

Well I hate cars but for other reasons. And that doesn't mean I don't use them. I wouldn't sacrifice anything. I'd try to make healthy choices for the environment. Nothing specific in mind, just the environment.

Answer 12

I am willing, if elected president, to sign an executive order that messes up as many Americans standard of living as possible to save Mother Earth. Can't we just all get along with mamma terre for 500 million more years or so until the Sun let's us down by going supernova.  Is that really too much to ask.

Floating a balloon for Al Gore's surprise announcement to run for POTUS.

Answer 13

I do not see this as a sacrifice to stop global warming, but a money making strategy. I will continue to push for formal restrictions on extraction and importation of fossil fuels, because my retirement funds are largely invested in that sector, and I want to keep our prices high by creating a scarcity.

The fact that this will also leave you folks some fossil fuels to burn longer into the future, the fact that we may, just may be able to slow or stop global warming, those are icing on the cake.

This strategy is not really needed. in a short time we will no longer be able to supply demand at anywhere close to present prices,, so our prices will have to rise anyway. I would just prefer to operate with a bit of reserve.

Answer 14

I'm currently paying 30% more for our power, Green Power.

Cycling to work and other places sometimes, recycling, composting, not being a flagrant consumer... finding better things to do with my time!

Answer 15

I'd willingly sacrifice all of you to keep my light bulb.  I'll convert to filthy oil burning lamps and driving a cow before I buy this green c**p they're trying to force down my throat.

Answer 16

Not as far as Al Gore. I am not giving up my limosine(s), my private jet, or my huge house(s). Or I wouldn't give them up if I had any of them.

Answer 17

Honestly, nothing big. I try to walk when I can, and I try not to waste too much energy, but I really don't see the point in drastically changing my lifestyle... Its big business and Al Gore doing most of the polluting. Then gore uses the excuse that he buys carbon offsets, as if the fact that he is a rich jerk gives him the right to pollute.