If global warming could be definitively disproved would you stop recyling?

Question

Often the reason, I don't drive is because hate the way roads scar the countryside, and most human products seem entirely unnatural. But if it turned out that most of our concerns were unnecessary such as car pollution, would you still campaign to cut our general consumption etc, (assuming you do now)

Answer 1

No way, the reason I support the environment is not soully based on global warming. There are several other concerns for our environment which can still be helped if we do our part.

Answer 2

I would still recycle.  It makes sense to.  Aluminum & glass are so easily reused.  Plus many plastics.  Also, landfill space is getting harder to find.  Which is a good thing since it forces people to stop being lazy and to reduce, reuse, recycle.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. Global warming is not the only thing that recycling helps. It reduces the amount of c**p that goes into landfills and the like.

Answer 4

I wouldn't...but this whole debate about global warming wrecking the economy reminds me of the time that people were debating recycling because IT was going to destroy the economy.  And catalytic converters...anybody remember how emissions controls and increased gas mileage mandates were going to destroy the automobile industry?

Answer 5

Far to late for that to much of the world is already affected

There is a series that you can download easy ,called

bbc,Planet earth by David Attenborough.

About 15 ---700mb videos

this is a film crew that has been filming Nature stories all over the world ,for a very long time .

In 3 of the episodes called --the future--saving species

the future--living together ,ice worlds ,

they compare films they made before of places and species to what they are filming now in the same places.

Many scientists give  commentaries as well .

And whole migrations of animals involving millions have disappeared in only 5 years but this is because of people killing them

However ice sheets,glaziers have gone

They say about half of the worlds forests have gone in the last 300 years

Half of the natural  habitats,like wetlands , ice fields tundras,mountain vegetation and rain forests . in the last 50 years,and all of the inhabitants with it

CHECK THE CLOCK FOR THE SPEED

http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf



Global warming is a component in a group of destructive forces at work ,it is not the only one , but  other factors which we are responsible for ,are rapidly making it the worst .

We are now  witnessing a mass   Extinction of animals and plants of Biblical proportions,equal since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Who cares what it is called or WHY EXACTLY  IT IS HAPPENING ,What or who is to blame

If we want to save ourselves as a specie ,we have to address

the problems

Apparently we can correct most of the destructive factors

with disciplines ,changes of attitude and habits.

A diminishing of the world population is essential especially in poor and densely populated areas.

a world sustainable number BASED ON BIO RESOURCES  is 3 billion,

And so far we can still do it voluntary,There may come a time when the governments will take harsh actions .

If they are not already doing this underground

Answer 6

No, but recycling and living in a cave are two different things.

PS to Boom: You mean the auto industry that is almost ruined?

Answer 7

Yes, yes I would. Where did our simplicity go?

...I am starting to hate this world for this stress.

Less materialistic things=Happiness.

Answer 8

Recycling makes sense economically.  What possible sense does it make to bury some piece of metal like a can in a landfill and then go to the bother of digging up more metal.  Simply melt the used one down and make a new one.  

This has nothing to do with global warming.

Answer 9

Recycling has nothing to do with global warming (well, not a  lot anyway).   For example, we are going to run out of oil sooner or later, regardless of the climate.  People have been recycling for years, far before global warming became a concern.

Answer 10

We run out of resources independently of whether global warming can be stopped. So I am all for resource conservation even though I doubt we can stop global warming.