In your lifetime, has the environment around you...?

Question

changed enough for you to noticed?

In my youth we could drink the water of the lake at our country house. Today there is no more fishes in the lake and we can't drink the water anymore. Only in 30 years... At the rate it is going, the global warming and all, are you alarmed?

Answer 1

Well there has been more much tsunamis and disasters in this decade what other reason could it be except global warming?

Answer 2

What you are describing has nothing to do with so-called global warming.

If the fish have died in your lake or pond and you can no longer drink the water tells me that people in your area are dumping their waste improperly and using your lake as an open cesspool.

Irresponsible actions by people can cause much damage to their local environment, and is one thing that really pi**es me off.

This type of situation is something that we can control, and stop from happening in the future, but nothing that mankind does could have any influence on a global scale one way or the other.(Other than removing most of the vegetation on this planet.)

I wish you would tell us exactly what has happened at your lake, and what the reason for your problem is.

I suspect that if you answer that question then you have your answer on how to solve it.

I am 54 years old now and have seen many changes which I do not like most of them caused by increased population and seeing rural countrysides and suburbs turned into large cities.

The suburb which I grew up in had a population of 3,000 people in 1960 and is now a city with a population of 250,000!

Everything which could be built on has been built on.

When I visited my family 8 years ago I got lost when I was only a mile away from where I grew up because nothing was familiar.

Where their once were houses with big yards and many vacant lots between many houses, every lot has been built on and where one house once stood there can be up to 10 houses or an apartment block.

It was so very sad that this was allowed to happen to my home town.

As far as any change in long term weather conditions are concerned nothing has changed in my lifetime or my father's lifetime who is 88 years old, or any of my current or past friend's lifetimes who are around my father's age.

There are no more frequent or violent natural disasters that have occurred in my lifetime than before I was born or any other person's lifetime.

I believe in science and not some theoretical and theatrical myths made up in 'Academia Land', promoted by the media, and believed by the gullible.

So my answer is NO!

I am not alarmed by 'Global Warming'!

I am alarmed at how so many people are so selfish, gullible, arrogant, stupid, etc... and do not even try to protect(or care for) the environment.

Believing a myth, no mater how well the story sounds is still only a myth!

Answer 3

yes, summer seem to get hotter and hotter, a big scale typhoon definitely come more often.

i don't worry much about my self now, but i do worry for our next generation.

i have seen on tv, some of the Oceania country start to loose their land due to the rising ocean level, and some of them expect to loose their country to the ocean with in 20 years. that is sad.

they are not the one pollute the world, but they are the one paying the price.

those polluting the world seem to careless. they making me sick!

Answer 4

unless the lake is refilled with fish there won't be any, they don't live forever

Answer 5

Changed for the better in some areas, we have more fish, and wildlife, and we the forest is healthy.  We have negative impacts also, invasive species that have caused problems but this has nothing to do with global warming.  The moral climate has diminished, that is disturbing.

Answer 6

As a child, I was able to walk down an extra few hundred feet or so on the ocean beaches. Erosion has taken its toll. There used to be hundreds of frogs in our yard - none, anymore. The list goes on and on...

No- I'm not concerned. Get a book on historical geology, and find out why. We are just a tiny link in the chain.

Answer 7

Yes very alarmed!  I think with the gas price going so high that by the end of the year where I'm at it's suppose to be like 6 dollars.  The grocery store are going up and I think before it gets any better it's going to get alot worse.  The environment has changed so much, I remember when I could leave my doors unlocked and  never thought anything about it and now I wouldn't dare do that.  People are getting so desperate right now.  The environment is going to sh*t!!

Answer 8

In Toronto over the last 40 years I've noticed the following:

1.  More foxes, coyotes and rabbits in the parks.

2.  More fish in most of the rivers.

3.  Fewer frogs and toads.

4.  Soot in the air has completely disappeared.

5.  More birds of prey, especially hawks in the ravines and falcons nesting in the downtown office towers.

6.  An explosion in the populations of Canada geese, pigeons and seagulls.

7.  Mosquitoes are almost completely gone and there are fewer wasps and hornets.

Answer 9

No.

Answer 10

yes because it's alot hotter now then it was 3-4 years ago

Answer 11

What in the WORLD does a contaminated pond have to do with global warming????  You people are relating everything negative to global warming and CO2 but what do we clean our environment with?  Activated Carbon?  Yea, water, air, chemicals and countless fluids are filtered and CLEANED with Carbon.  Plus, the only thing that we package CO2 in is soft drinks (to preserve it) and fire extinguishers that cool fires...  Just cause the trailer park you live in happens to be the place where everybody pisses in is of no concern to us.

Answer 12

Yes, it has changed. But I can't relate that as proof that MAN-KIND IS CAUSING IT!