What's the best way for humans to address Climate Change?

Question

If you think there is something we need to do, what are our priorities to be????Your country

other countries?

Answer 1

stop using coal

this video explains in detail WHY

http://ecowellness.multiply.com/video/it...

Answer 2

With Doubt & Anger!

Do not send a Dime to someone else because you feel guilty about your Carbon footprint.  

I think the term for that is Extortion.

If you do anything, spend YOUR money to make YOUR home more efficient, but do it for YOU.  

Do things that save YOU money down the road.  

Recycle to make YOU money.

Do not fall for scare tactics used to steal YOUR money.

Do not let someone recruit YOU into some green army who prefer to see people die in order to save their world.

Do not give up YOUR freedom so that they can move on to take everyone's freedom.

Answer 3

Ignore the UN funded hype.

Answer 4

Build 17,000 wind turbines each year for 30 years.

Build 30 nuclear reactors per year for 30 years.

retrofit 20 coal fired plants each year for 30 years--

TO-- reduce CO2 emissions by 50%, the minimum amount needed to affect global temperatures.

or so they say-- COST 45 trillion

http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/...

Answer 5

War is the only way to address any change. Republicans should know better.

Answer 6

Stop taxing people over it, restore energy and consumer good prices to what they were, kill the hype, admit it isn't real, and get Aesop to write a fairy tale about it for future generations of kids to laugh at.

Answer 7

If you're in the UK then "Mister" would be good, but if in the US "Sir" would be more widely accepted.

Answer 8

The best way for humanity to address climate change is not simple in many respects, but contrary to what most of these people on here think, it's going to happen, it's just a matter of whether that's before or after catastrophic events unfold.

To begin we need to dispel many of the myths associated with climate change.

Despite what people want you to think, climate change was not invented to be a political power tool for either the left of the right. Newt Gingrich (a republican) has asked for his party to stop fighting the science and accept the reality of the situation:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl...

Instead, anthropogenic climate change was investigated by scientists, and supported by scientific experiments and data collection. In fact, the manner in which anthropogenic climate change has been occurring was known to us for some time, but the science to support the idea of anthropogenic climate change has only really been cemented in recent years.

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

Following that, we need to develop a manner for educating people on what climate change is, and how we are affecting the climate on a global scale. This will involve some major hurdles. There is a previously established idea that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and depletion of the ozone layer are the cause of global warming. Many people don't understand the science behind emissions and the "greenhouse effect" (it's not the same as a real greenhouse's warming).

Now then, what we really need to do, is hold the feet of other countries and companies to the fire. Countries like China are raging juggernauts that cannot be stopped so long as we tolerate their poor environmental record. We can do this by simply shifting our spending habits. By purchasing goods and services from companies with strong environmental records in countries with strong environmental records, we can apply economic pressure.

But above all, priority must be given to changing industry. In my home country, Canada, industry accounts for roughly half of the greenhouse gas emissions. People think that it will be expensive to change, but the truth is that many of the environmentally sound options are actually more efficient, and would be upgrades.

Lastly, we must realize that it is our laziness and greed that has brought this upon us.

We drive our hummers to the corner store and sit inside in our airconditioned home with a heated pool while we eat industrial foods and buy cheap products made in environmentally destructive factories. We don't support initiatives for the environment because it means that we will have to start living like a human being again.  

We do all these things, and then we sit on the outside and ask why we are all getting fatter in the developed world. Why is it that kids don't want to work anymore? Why is there an epidemic of cancer and diabetes? Why are we losing all of our jobs while the developing world is growing in jobs?

The world is a web, and, like it or not, we are all a part of it.

Answer 9

It's a cycle that's been going on for millions of years.  Just ignore it.

Answer 10

Ignore it and it will go away !!

Answer 11

Well i am only 12 years old and i am very concerned of the environment

i have joined a online association-stopglobalwarming.org/

got my family to use only energy efficent light bulbs

Planted 50 shrubs and trees on plant a tree day (Schools)

And i have written a letter to the prime minister and Senator Penny wong who is minister of cliamte change

Answer 12

stop listening to manbearpig's propaganda!

Answer 13

I believe our priority should be individual effort and political pressure. We only have control of ourselves and can really only influence our own government. Americans use more energy and other resources than any other nation, and we are the worst polluters.

Each of us should begin making personal lifestyle changes so we conserve resources and reduce pollution. We should vote with our wallets and support companies that are reducing emissions, conserving resources and developing more sustainable practices. We should all get involved at some level with communicating to our elected officials and get them to require change.

At one point in history the USA was a shining star of what humans can achieve, we are now more of a cautionary tale of what can go wrong.

Answer 14

When the climate is cold..... wear a coat.

When the climate is warm..... take the coat off.

Answer 15

Come up with a better name for it, and stop trying to scare people in to paying Uncle Al, the privelege of driving your car or turning your A/C on when you need to.

Answer 16

The best way to address it is to let the earth do its thing. It's a living organism, it's why we haven't killed it yet and won't. Look of CFCs didn't do the job this old planet MUST be tougher than we give it credit for. Change happens, even with climate, and we must get over it.

Answer 17

Realize it's a naturally occurring phenomenon and it's out of their control to stop or regulate.

Answer 18

For decades, environmentalism has been the Left's best excuse for increasing government control over our actions in ways both large and small. It's for Mother Earth! It's for the children! It's for the whales!

But until now, the doomsday-scenario environmental scares they've trumped up haven't been large enough to give the sinister prize they want most of all: total control of American politics, economic activity, and even individual behavior.

With global warming, however, greenhouse gasbags can argue that auto emissions in Ohio threaten people in Paris, and that only global government can tackle such problems.

National sovereignty? Democracy?

Forget it: global warming has now brought the Left closer to global government, statism, and the eradication of individual rights than it has ever been before.

Answer 19

Stop woth the d**n obsession over hybrids. A small non-hybrid car burns less gas than a hybrid SUV does. It's not a cure-all solution!

Answer 20

Admit that it is caused by SOLAR ACTIVITY AND NOT HUMANS!!! That should be step number one. Number two; rest assured that it has been happening since the world started and the climate will continue to for many more eons or we blow up the planet.

Answer 21

Climate Change is bigger than humanity and not meaningfully within its control.  It is one of many subjects used to frighten you into specific actions.

The economic freedom and use of energy in the U.S. does not *cause* poverty elsewhere, the corrupt, slothful or backward leadership in the other countries does.

Answer 22

Everyone has the chance to save some energy, especially if you´re at home. I got a useful page when I had a look for it.

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/saving_ene...