Saving our future resources and ending world hunger?

Question

How do politicians, common citizens and people in the industries save our future?

i know taxing carbon is one way, but what im asking for are many ways in which politicians can save the resources NOW for the future that we overuse and ways that politicians can stop world hunger.

the more, the better.

Answer 1

let simpson worry about it

Answer 2

A pollution surcharge is the best way as it balances the playing field. Bush the other night said the USA was going to buy food from 3rd world countries to feed the hungry.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 3

Never happen, it would require humans on a mass scale to act intelligently. Politicians are part of the problem would you honestly expect somebody like G. Bush to think.

Carbon taxing is a scam/sham and will do nothing to lower emissions, it will merely raise the cost of doing business. Which will be passed on to the consumer, you.

Do not panic the problem is self correcting, maybe the species that replaces us will be intelligent.

Answer 4

Politics and taxes always make things worse.

Most poor countries are that way because they are controlled by greedy rulers.   Africa is a prime example.  It's a lush country full of natural resources, but the people are either not educated on how to till the land or are not allowed.

In Zimbabwe, the Dutch farmers used to feed the whole country, but the corrupt rulers killed them all and took their land.  Now it's all wasted because no one knows how to grow crops there anymore.

We send billions in aid to them, but it all goes into their leaders' Swiss bank accounts.   I wish I knew a simple solution, but again, carbon taxes and saving resources in thriving countries does nothing to help the problem.