Why does everyone want to combat global warming?

Question

Global warming is the only reason we arent in an ice age right now so why do you want to get rid of it

Answer 1

Because they are more stupid than a sack of rusty hammers.

There is no stopping global warming now and it will reduce food supplies and eat up coastal land to help get human population under control.  Six billion people and getting close to seven when we should level out at one billion.  

The heat causes droughts and will reduce farm lands and when the USA and Canada can't feed Africa and Asia, there will be massive starvation.  The Indian monsoons are already weakening and cop failures there will have immediate impacts as they consume everything they grow.  Europe also has little surplus and when the ocean currents that warm Western Europe shift the UK, France, Spain, and Belgium will will resemble Canada and the Netherlands will be 50% submerged by rising seas.  While few expects this to happen, there is noother option.  If you look at the rate of extinctions, you will see we are losing more species today then we were when the dinosaurs died out 65M years ago.  

Even if we could reduce our emmisions, the cycle is self perputating.  The time to spot polluting was forty years ago.  Today we just hang on for the ride.  

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Answer 2

SHOW ME THE MONEY.  Its a new way to make money.  The rich will take more money from the poor.

Answer 3

Are you a complete idiot?  No your not so stop acting like it!

Ok global warming is causing huge problems and are going to continue to get worse!

Read It!  Learn It!  Absorb It!

Answer 4

Combat is an interesting choice of words, isn't it? But not an unusual one given today's lexicon (eg War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terrorism). The word combat implies that we are on one side and Global Warming is on the other, when it would seem we are one and the same.  

So why are we at war with Global Warming?

Humans cling to society because it produces good. Global Warming represents decay of society. The essence of being socially aware is to always tinker with society to make it better. Historically, this tinkering has produced some very useful ends such as:

- less hunger through agriculture

- less disease through medicine,

- The end of state-sanctioned slavery

- More time for leisure pursuits (which is what we are engaged right now).

The problem is that society has become so efficient at producing humans that it appears to be threatening the environment which fosters it.

Global Warming is a symptom of the way we presently produce energy to sustain society's needs. Finding ways to create a sustainable society seems to be the question of the age. In order for society to advance we must alter our energy paradigm (among other things) or accept the possibility that society, and humanity, will suffer a very serious set-back due to the catastrophic effects of global climate change (among other things).

And that is why everyone wants to combat global warming.

Always tinkering.

Answer 5

On the contrary

Answer 6

Follow the Money to Al Gore's bank.

When a comet is found that will 100% impact the Earth, Al Gore will be selling Comet Shields(Umbrellas) for $1000 that are "sure to protect you from any comet particles."

Answer 7

Who wouldnt want to combat global warming! Our world is getting worse and worse and it's all because of us! Animals are dying, iceburgs are melting, The atmosphere is fading. We should do as much as we can before its too late.

Answer 8

global warming is causing an ICEAGE, numbnuts!

Answer 9

It might bring back the dinosaurs.

Ha ha.

Answer 10

ya want to kno!!!!! i 4 1  dont want 2 be covered in water, or  4 da normat temp 2 b 101!

Answer 11

Global Warming is not a good thing for us.

Answer 12

its a fad that makes people feel important

Answer 13

I wrote this. Check it out.

I think that on two levels, Global Warming has become a religion and isn't about facts, debate or science anymore.

1. Political leaders on the left have used global warming as a tool to gain even more control over people through taxation, choice elimination, deprivation of debate, as well as stopping scienfific funding to universities. I think that global warming has become the liberal equivalent to terrorism as far as striking fear in people to gain control over them. Now you can't tell a conservative that terrorism is planted in their head by politicians and you can't tell liberals that global warming, self-loathing, and the grossly overstated human footprint isn't put in theirs.

2. Just like Christians have the second coming of Christ, in which the world will be destroyed "unless you listen to US and Change," The left has the Church of Global Warming where "unless you listen to US and Change, the world will be destroyed.

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I think that most of these problems lie in a fundamental psychological process (like those that drive economics, etc.

) where people need to feel:

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In control for power

2. In "the know" where they are actually important for once in their lives and "making a difference." In fact, they are "saving the world.

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I think that peoples' fears are much more powerful than that of reason and intellectual honesty.

What do you think?

Answer 14

Because the man made increase in  temperature over natural levels will cause major adverse impacts.

It won't be a Hollywood movie style disaster. Gradually coastal areas will flood and agriculture will be damaged. But it will be very bad. Rich countries will cope, but it will take huge amounts of money. In poor countries many people will die of starvation, but not all of them.

The best advice is this:

"If the Earth came with an operating manual, the chapter on climate might begin with a caveat that the system has been adjusted at the factory for optimum comfort, so don't touch the dials."