The essence of a civilisation is to take necessary and sufficient action against a threat?

Question

This is all those who are concerned about global warming are trying to promote and certainly not to destroy civilisation as we know it? Some restrictions on profligate or otherwise unnecessary emissions of greenhouse gases are surely not too great a burden to be born?

Answer 1

global warming is a fake and an international scam no real scientist would agree with it without some sort of exception on the idea click this link and read the information in it http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/thereis...

Answer 2

Statements like this are why we have stupid wars.

The threat of terrorism perceived to be real gives us the war on terrorism.

The threat of the poor living substandard lives gives us the war on poverty.

The threat of our children getting hooked on narcotics and marijuana gives us the war on drugs.

And even with all these "wars" going on, we have more of what we are fighting now than before we declared war.  A war on carbon will only lead to an environment with even more carbon.

We don't need to panic.  The free markets are already acting to give people greener products.  Sit back, relax.  Be a part of the solution rather than goosestepping down the streets.

Answer 3

We only have this one tiny,little wet rock,spinning through space,let's not s***w it up! What good is the economy if we are dead,or evacuated from our homes?

Answer 4

That's why we buy all kinds of insurance and create savings accounts, etc.  We generally prepare for the worst case scenario so that we're ready if it happens.  I don't know why some people abandon this principle when it comes to global warming.

Answer 5

There is a school of thought that thinks civilisation has led to humans becoming a new force in the geologic forces operating on earth and that the human civilisation era now deserves its own name - the ANTHROPOCENE (from the Greek for man and new) as human impact of earth from land use, mining, emissions etc now rivals, equals or surpasses those of nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocen...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthr...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jh...

http://geology.about.com/od/geotime_dati...

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/ne...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

As an example widespread agriculture is replacing natural vegetation with large expanses of single crops, often pushing out the animal and plant species that live there and causing them to go extinct. Most land that can be farmed in some way now is. Forested areas are shrinking, species still going extinct; we move more rocks and minerals around today than nature does and so on.

As another example there is little landscape in Britain today that is not man-made, apart from some remote mountain or sea cliff areas (and cliff areas are farmed right up to the edge). Even the woodlands have been heavily coppiced and managed in past times, mountain landscape heavily modified by sheep farming.

The demands of grouse shooting in the past 150 yrs has resulted in upland trees being cut down to create large expanses of land covered in heather. The Cairngorm mountains are not as they were 1,000 years ago, even though we think of them as wilderness.

We face a lot of challenges this century, population is forecast to grow from 6 to 9 billion (the equivalent of two more Chinas) by 2050, oil will be severely depleted by the latter part of the century plus climate change.

Stewart Brand, an American thinker has said "We are as gods and might as well get good at it."

Answer 6

oh the global warming issue, everyone seems to think its man made, but it is a natural proses of the the planet, yes we as a species have speeded it up, but in the long term it is something that will happen and (this is the important bit ) cannot be stopped, don't forget that we are still in an ice age, a (period of time when there is permanent ice at the poles) and when the ice has gone a there should be a stable period before the next period of planetary cooling takes place and a new ice age will start, the whole debate about "saving the planet" should be turned to what can we do to adapt as a species so we can adjust to a warmer planet and higher sea levels.

Answer 7

Set an example and turn your heating off and sell your car then.That's if global warming's man-made to start with.

Answer 8

Is there a question?  Putting a question mark after a statement does not make it a question.

Answer 9

Unfortunately, the best and least destructive means of reducing co2 emissions is nuclear energy.  If environmentalists were to come on board and support such initiatives, action against this so called "threat" can be taken.  Many skeptics would not appose such measures.  But they want us to convert to costly, and as of yet, unstable renewable energy, or a costly carbon tax (doubling the price of gas, and increasing the price of electricity by 30%).

Answer 10

We should be taking action which is proportional to the level of threat.  

We should also stop listening to junk science.

Answer 11

The biggest contributor to global warming is cows farting. Solution? Eat more beef. Argentina is leading the way in the fight against global warming.

Answer 12

I woulde even add that the GOAL OF EACH SPECIES IS ITS SURVIVAL.

Answer 13

Good point, like other fanatical apocalyptic doomsday cults before it, global warming threatens to undo the economic and political progress humans have achieved.  A globe spanning bureaucracy imposing useless niggling regulations on every minor detail of our will do untold damage.  We as a civilization should react and react swiftly to this cult and it's demagogic leaders.  Do you think well staffed concentration camps would be sufficient to deal with the threat?