What can you do to take part in saving the earth from total destruction?

Question

The things we could do for global warming...

Answer 1

Hi Doll,

do you mean as an individual in this great big world of morons?

i'm not sure.

there are the usual things, like turning off things not in use, driving less, driving better to use less fuel, etc...

i feel kinda hopeless about the whole thing, but i do what i can to live simply and use as little as i can, recycling religiously, and urging our elected officials to change laws to improve and help our global environment.

i suggest you contact your local officials, continuously, and urge them to make changes in the laws for all of us that can make a difference for our future.

ask that mpg ratings for auto manufacturers be raised, ask that gas taxes are raised to astronomical rates as they are in the rest of the free world, ask for corporate responsibility, etc...

ask corporations to be responsible, to reduce their carbon footprints, to use renewable resources, to reduce their energy consumption.

get involved in local organizations that spread the word and educate people on reducing energy consumption.

politicians get a bad rap, but keep putting the pressure on them and eventually they listen... they do.

education is one of the key ways to get everyone involved, but it takes persistence.  being an activist is the most productive way to change the future.

keep persevering, and hopefully people will get a clue before it's too late.

peace

Answer 2

We can do nothing to stop the world from being destroyed.

God is going to do it no matter what in order to make the new Heaven and Earth.

I don't care if you believe me or not.

Simple truth.

Answer 3

You know, there really isn't much one can do to prevent total destruction, and global warming is definitely not leading to total destruction.  An asteroid smack would be a disaster.  The sun going nova would be a disaster.  Throwing all our nukes around would be a disaster (about the only thing we really can have a role in preventing).

Global warming is not a disaster, and one could easily argue it isn't even primarily a negative change.  In fact I have many times presented just that argument.

The al gores of this world, the chicken littles, would have really freaked if we were living at the time of the great melt of the glaciers, that event that has been so important to the rise of civilized man.  They would have looked at the change as a disaster, had we been a civilized society at the time.  It was anything but a disaster, although definitely many plants and animals suffered from it (just as many benefited, most notably MAN).

The problem is simple-there is change a coming, and change scares people.  But change is always coming when one is talking about the climate.  It never stays the same.  Considering a change that is inevitible as a disaster and trying to stop the change rather than act to accomodate the change is foolish, in my very much professional and personal opinion.

Calling it disaster is way over-reaction.

Answer 4

Man cannot cause "total destruction" of planet earth.  Our planet is 4.5 Billion (yes, with a B) years old.  Climate changes that we are arguably seeing have happened thousands of times.  Over the next 5 Billion years, the earth will be completely reshaped time and time again.  Long after man has become extinct, earth will continue on.  Then, one day 5 Billion years from now, the sun will expand and completely engulf the earth.  Then and only then will earth see total destruction.    Man is but a blip on the radar...