What would convince you to stop contriuting to global warming?

Question

i just saw the "inconvieneint truth" movie with al gore and super charged my thinking torwards global warming. how could i convince an ordanary pedestrian to stop? for good?

Answer 1

This isn't the 60's so unless you are going to start a counter culture movement all by your lonesome you aren't going to do squat. Plus, Al Gore "Inventor of the Internet" has a political agenda, therefore he can not be trusted. The Global Warming scare is like the Y2K bug scare. Lots of hot air and no substance. If Al gore told you the Ice Age was due to dinosaur flatulence would you believe that too? And, really, wth does it matter anyway?

Answer 2

That's a good question my friend. I have also recently had a change in my thinking and it was also in response to the movie an Inconvienant Truth. I would consider myself a fairly well educated student. I've taken geology first year university and I believe in science over "gut feelings and tradition". However I'm a skeptical person when it comes to group norms, so I resisted beliving in global warming a long long time. I read Michael Chrighton's State of Fear, a republicans dream book, science fiction, calling Global Warming the greatest hoax ever passed off as fact. Honestly, what finnally got me was enthuisaism of my family. They started recycling and talking about global warming being a problem and finnally i just jumped on board and started working to fight it because others around me got me motivated.

So, the short answer to your question is merely...

show your enthuisasm and describe the easy steps you are taking to fight global warming, distribute an Inconvienant Truth, and make sure others know that the scientific community is in agreement over the issue, and we are either going to have to take steps to put a slow to our carbon emissions or pay a much greater price in 10-20 years.

Answer 3

did you ever think maybe Al gore wasnt telling the whole story about global warming? just using some facts but omitting others.

Answer 4

there is a lot of evidence of man made climate change .and there are many reasons to hide the truth

scientists who work for politicians ,get paid by these politicians and they have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many peoples incomes,and upsets profit margins,so most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.for political and economic reasons

Global warming is a very complex collection of many effects

this text only covers some aspects of global warming ,mainly agriculture i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification

water and air polution such as caused by

industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories,

and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions

there are natural cycles in the planets life

but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

climate change is caused in great parts by desertification ,and most desertification is caused by man

the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions

DEFORESTATION

in the past

the Building of the Spanish Armada deforrested Spain

the Phoenician trading fleet turned Lebanon in a dessert

Ganges Khan put everything to the sword and torch, then filled the wells with sand,

the sun finished of the job and whole countries turned to wastelands.

Today ,

Slash and burn destroys the protective vegetation (which helps to form the soil ),

leaving it open to the Sun ,and then ,wind and, water erosion.

The Plough turns the soil ,killing micro-biotic life (essential to soil building) and accelerates the drying out .

Pressures of the :vehicles, cattle and rain impact brings the salt to the surface.

Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .

Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,Farmers

are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers

and plowing more and more unstable lands going into the jungles and onto mountain slopes

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year

and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up ,

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,

and there are less and less farmers to do it..

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.

This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

Africa and Asia are loosing millions of people to AIDS , many of whom were food producers.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,

Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

RISING SEAS

The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.

this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter

Global warming could be slowed down to some extent,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where,instead of just some third world countries Source(s) here are a 100 ways to help

http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...

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Answer 5

It's not practical to stop contributing altogether - this would mean living in a cave somewhere and not even lighting a fire to keep warm or cook by.

There's many things you can do to reduce carbon emissions and I've put some ideas together on this webpage http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/...

The same page also explains a little about carbon offseting which is a good way to negate the CO2 emissions you produce each year.  There's links on the page where you can get a lot more info.

Answer 6

well if you offered me a very nice part of the Fuji islands. Tell me that I can live there forever and have an abundance of food, water, tequila, and beautiful women around, I might take you up on the offer and say that you have convinced me global warming is bad.

Then I could live happy everafter

Answer 7

Have Al Gore buy carbon credits from me!

Of course he won't do that.  He only buys carbon credits from his OWN company (see below).  This way he can "save the world" by lining his own pockets!

Answer 8

One way would be telling them more about the effects it can bring with it if global warming gets worse. Have you read the book 'The inconvenient truth'? This book has tons of info on Global Warming as well. And also wisit the website. I hope that people will take global warming more seriously and not ignore it.

Answer 9

I'll give the answer someone gave to a similar question of mine.

A 30 foot rise in sea level wouldn't convince some people.

Answer 10

Thankfully I already try to do my share. I recycle as much as possible, Not try to go through the fast food when its a long car line, and teach  my kids to help about it. Unfortunately I think it might be too late to turn things around, UNLESS we mass produce ethanol fuel and stop using the oil that we have soo little of. The oil is what is going to keep our asses from burning up.