What can you do to prepare your kids, or grandkids, for Global Warming?

Question

When the mountain people, like in the European Alps, the Andes or American Rocky Mts, run out reliable water, and the coastal people are flooded by rising oceans where are they going to move and what jobs can they live on?

The farm lands will dry up and the growing seasons will change. What are people going to eat?

Should you raise your children to be hunters, doctors, soldiers, mechanics ..? What occupations will help them survive?

Answer 1

Go green, learn how to save our home-earth, prepare your children to live with less and get ready for oil prices to go through the roof-$30 per gallon for gas. We have the technology and are getting the will to build renewable energy, clean up our messes like in the atmosphere, and use the energy available to us where we are. We must get off imported oil, teach your children these things.

Answer 2

Pretty good question...

I posted one I think was pretty interesting as well, but looking around, I came across yours and had to answer.

First, it is important for everyone to recognize what the truth is.  If it is real or not is relevant to the importance of your question.

If it is real...

teaching about what we can expect and what we can do to slow it down and prepare for it should be pretty useful for starters.  The sciences, engineering, things like this will be good and honorable career choices.

If it is not real...

it's one less thing to worry about then.

BUT THE TRUTH - oh yes the truth.  What is the truth?  According to the world of Science - there really is no dispute what the answer is (anything contrary is what is known as confusion by disinformation).  So if you really want to know, below you'll find the answer (at the end of the question, the only credible source needed)...

Answer 3

If you believe in this c**p, buy some sunscreen, sell your car... and buy a bike

Answer 4

I would not worry myself with that nonsense, sweetie.

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Answer 5

Well, I really don't think you have to PREPARE them for anything, just let them know about it and how to try and solve it. Global Warming is going to have a big impact on everyone, just that everyone dosnt know it. Let your children/grandchildren, so on know what global warming is doing to us. Let them know the worst that could happen, even printo out a few pictures for them to loook at.

Answer 6

Buy them sunscreen.

Answer 7

Hm. Yeah all this "global warming"

Scam. Environmental c**p is invented to keep America down. We'd be able to have our own friggin fuel if it wasn't for the tree huggers.

Answer 8

One reason why I'm considering not to have kids of my own at all.

Answer 9

You can tell you children about the fables of Global Warming....It's not real!!!!!

Answer 10

Moving to Mars.

Answer 11

educating them is a good way to try to avoid climate change in the first place, have them learn to recycle, and all that stuff. If it's too late for that all they can do really is to move to a less dangerous place, which would be hard to do. I think that before you think all about the survival skils thing you should teach kids and all your family and friends to treat the Earth well.

Answer 12

None of that is going to happen, so no special precautions are needed. The only coastal people who will get flooded are the ones in such low areas that they get seasonal flooding almost every year already. The mountains will not run out of reliable water, if they have it now, which many don't. Farm land will not dry up. Or at least for every acre that does dry up another acre somewhere else that used to be dry will get more rain. But growing seasons will change. They will get longer.

Answer 13

I'm raising them to be suspicious any time a politician reaches for their wallet in the name of averting "possible" disasters.

I'm raising them to understand that a "consensus" is no more useful now than it was when the world was flat, bad humors caused disease, or lobotomies cured mental illness.

I'm raising them to actually think for themselves, rather than follow some charismatic leader who tells them how they have to change their lifestyle while he tools around in stretch SUVs, private jets, and multi-million dollar mansions attending conferences in Tropical Paradises and making millions off of his own "carbon credit" business.

I'm also raising them to ignore anyone who would sign a petition to ban dihydrogen-monoxide, or anyone who would enlist such people in a quest to "change the world."

BTW - isn't the new fad among eco-nuts going childless?

Answer 14

make a new planet! live at mars!renew mars! build trees,try to put water n let c wat happen 2 mars...thats y we must save earth!some1 goes way too far enough to rule the world!!hate that person! rubish!

Answer 15

well like glorbal warming already started so like and the sun is going to explode in like 7.6billion years so don't worry.

Answer 16

teach, teach, teach

Answer 17

Raise them to be Republicans.  Then they won't worry about your Al Gore fantasy.

Answer 18

I've been considering teaching them to run around screaming "the sky is falling"

If nothing else it will help them fit in with the global warming nuts..

Answer 19

Pimps to radiate the joy.

Answer 20

Jehovah  won't let that happen, haven't you read  the bible?

Answer 21

None of the above.  If the bottom falls out then nothing will really make a difference in the long run.

Answer 22

that is not schedule to happen for like 100 years or more your great great great grandkids should start preparing

Answer 23

It's not about teaching them those skills those are everyday skills that people will learn but what the young people today (lol i'm young and i'm saying this) need to learn is how to step by step help fight global warming and pollution research and find ways togethor as a family to just help the enviroment. change lightbulbs to cf's , grow trees togethor and teach your kid that this is important .......because this is not just our earth it's the plants it's the animals and we all need to save it.

Answer 24

help fight Global Warming.  Teach them good habits by example.

Answer 25

Waders ... how and when to wear them.  

Always around AGWers since it gets real deep and we're not talking melting glaciers.

Answer 26

keep them away from Al Gore and instill common sense

Answer 27

Global warming isn't a real threat! YES its happening right now, but we WILL NOT be killed by it! Do your research! I was scared until I realized it is just the media trying to scare us. Remember when they said we were all going to die because another ice age was coming??? don't believe it.

Answer 28

I don't know.  Look at what happened after Katrina.  Imagine that kind of chaos on a huge scale.  My belief is that social order will go first and those people who can create alliances with others easily will be safer.

Answer 29

ok, as a 14 year old and not having kids for a while, i can think of a few things i would prepare then for.. not to believe everything they hear, al gore is an attention w***e, the world wont end anytime soon and become rich like i will :)

oh yeah the guy above me reminded me about this, raising them to be republicans

well hey, its goin to be my kids, dont tell me how to raise em

Answer 30

It won't happen in any three decendant's lifetime, don't worry.

Answer 31

the earth will just erupt into flames and then the ocean will rise by then.