When and how did environmentalists get so loud and influential?

Question

Take global warming for example, thanks to enviromenalists the governments of the world are treating global warming as fact, when in fact it is just opinion. Climate change happens naturally and has done for millions and millions of years and that IS fact.

Answer 1

They've been for sometime now, just that we are

beginning to realize that they mean good following

the rapid environmental changes either natural or

artificial.

As population and demands+supply increase on

earth, it's obvious that natural substances would

be stressed, since we obtain from them and donate

by-products of artificially processed substances.

Answer 2

You're pretty ignorant. How are environmentalist ïnfluential" if modern culture and corporations and capitalism destroy the environment. Nobody gives any weight to the environmentalist. People who don't want to believe an inconvenient truth. Climate change does not happen this drastically in a matter of 50 years and that-sir is a fact. What an ignorant world.

Answer 3

Don't worry yourself - why are the you and your kind so loud but have no influence?  The reason governments are so concerned is because they make themselves informed.  The situation is critical and it is wonderful that you and your kind reserve your idiocy to ego stroking questions on Yahoo.  What else are you against.

Answer 4

I believe there is a touch,here,of "The emperors new clothes"

There is a terrible habit,thesedays,of not wishing to seem out of step,the upshot of which, is unquestioning agreement !

There is also the despicable practice (by the environmental groups) of deriding any point of view,other than their own.

Answer 5

Jon E, you make a powerful argument for abortion!

Answer 6

They do my head in, protesting and stuff, china has sealed our fate anyway, very little we can do about all that stuff now.. so lets just have a party.. scatter!

Answer 7

since the dawn of civilization, cities have problems on how to manage their solid waste, their names varies tru time, environmentalist now, god knows what in the past.Would anyone like to have their living rooms dump with garbages? That's the start.

Answer 8

Environmentalists are influential (but not yet influential enough) because more people are realising that we all have to live in the environment and it can only take so much abuse.

Answer 9

They have become so influential because they have a bloody good point! It's not opinion, it is fact; our own actions have drastically increased the rate of global warming. No scientist worth his salt can deny that, and anyone else who denies it is deluded. Yes, global warming is a natural process, but it should not be happening on the scale it is now.

Do your bit for the environment; turn your computer off and never turn it on again, to save others from your stained-glass view of the world.

Answer 10

I just said this in another post....

Even if global warming does not exist, we need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses and other harmful gasses.  They don't only play a role in global warming, but are also really damaging to human, plant, and animal health (especially in large cities).  And this is fact, not opinion.  These pollutants ARE increasing in our atmosphere, and they have been proven to cause sicknesses and diseases such as asthma, cancer, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory diseases.  And its not like this is one of those "you're more likely to be eaten by a bear" cases.  They really easily damage your lungs and tissue, and are causing more and more problems.

Answer 11

many environmentalist are member of 6 to 12 environmental groups.

some groups even give out overgrown membership numbers.

groups like the sierra club have been doing this for years.

so if you have 10 environmental groups with 20,000 members

it looks like 200,000 members.

when the true membership number of all the groups may only be 40,000 members.

then there are groups like the

American Geophysical Union. that the treehuggers have taken over the leadership of.

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/positi...

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/2008-03....

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

then you have one of the members of AGU make this quote

"The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary, Christy is quoted as saying, "I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true."[6]"

this is what he really thinks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7081...

this shows that global warming is run by political hot air

and being aimed at the US