How will global warming effect you??

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Australia
August 25, 2007 6:52am CST
How will global warming effect you? Do you believe there is a change coming? And if so, how will it effect you. Your work, your life, your every day expenses? Are prices for everyday things becoming more expensive? Do you think this is from global warming?
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@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
25 Aug 07
If Global warming is real... and I don't have any reason to believe it is not... it will have disastrous effects on humanity. We cannot fight nature. The planet Earth looks after itself first. Humans are only guests on this planet... and nature will have no second thought about wiping humanity out in order to restore the planet to what it used to be. There is only one solution to restore the planet and the damage we did to it. And that is to achieve zero population grow. And we need to do this until we reduce our population by half. That mean that we need to get ride off more than 3 billion people. As we all know... with our line of thinking today... this is not going to happen. Nobody on Earth will accept such drastic action. So we are left with two choices... 1) When things get bad... people go to war. And a nuclear war has the possibility to wipe half of the population out. 2) Nature takes care of it and wipe us out. No matter which way you want to look at it... there is no other solution than reducing our population. You could spend all the money in the world to try to fix it... and you could not do it. It is too late. It has gone too far. It should have been stopped 30 years ago. So... how is it going to affect us in the short term... If the government forces industries to reduce their pollution... that means that industries will have to spend a fortune in new technologie to do so. As the cost of production increase... everything we buy will cost more. No exception. But there is no quick fix. Even if we achieved zero pollution overnight (which is impossible by the way... because you cannot achieve zero pollution. You can only reduce pollution by reducing the population)... it would take 72 years to get back where we were in 1970... pollution wise. Because... to remove the pollution in the air... you need a day with zero pollution for each day you have created pollution. As we cannot do that... but we can manage to reduce our pollution by half... it will take us two days for each day we have polluted. But that would only work with zero population grow. Since 1970... thanks to new technologies... we have cut our pollution by half. But because our population has doubled at the same time... it has made no difference. 3 billion people with 100 per cent pollution is the same than 6 billion people with 50 per cent pollution. Spending money on anti-pollution is a total waste of money if you don't stop population grow. All you do... is to encourage the population to continue to grow. Now it get worse. So far it was only the industrialist Western World causing most of the pollution. But now we have India and China entering the race for money with its 2.5 billion people. This has the capacity to double our pollution rather than reduce it. All in all... the biggest worry is not how much it is going to cost you. The biggest worry will be famines. There will be no food to buy at any cost in order to feed yourself. That is when nature gets you.
• Canada
28 Aug 07
I can see why you received the best response on this one..even though you present a dire future for the future citizens of our planet...much of what you say inarguable. Individuals, companies, politicians have been burying their heads in the sand for years..and it is that complacency that will allow things to continue until something shifts the balance...Mother Nature or human choice making. Thought provoking...but true.
@Lifeless (2635)
• India
26 Aug 07
Global warming WILL not affect everyone, it has already started affecting everybody out there.. Be it humans, animals, or plants.. Everybody is getting affected.. I think global warming would affect me in a way that I would have to pay more for the basic neccessities like food and water as they would become scarce as this situation erupts.. It would be difficult to go outside as the weather would be too hot, and if we dare exposing ourselves to that weather, we could get harm our skin as well.. There are many other side effects of this so called epidemic, and it would be dangerous to discuss it over here...
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@wdiong (1815)
• Singapore
25 Aug 07
Doctors and scientists around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed over global warming’s impact on human health. Abnormal and extreme weather, which scientists have long predicted would be an early effect of global warming, have claimed hundreds of lives across the US in recent years. Our warming climate is also creating the ideal conditions for the spread of infectious disease, putting millions of people at risk.Malaria. Dengue Fever. Encephalitis. These names are not usually heard in emergency rooms and doctor’s offices in the United States. But if we don’t act to curb global warming, they will be. As temperatures rise, disease-carrying mosquitoes and rodents spread, infecting people in their wake. Doctors at the Harvard Medical School have linked recent U.S. outbreaks of dengue ("breakbone") fever, malaria, hantavirus and other diseases to climate change.
@ian1010 (459)
• Philippines
4 Sep 07
global warming affects greatly the environment and the climate. for a country with a strong economy it's not much if prices of things are affected. but for people who will live about 50 yrs from now, like our future grandchildren, then they'll be the ones to suffer for our irresponsibility. the responsibility to ssave earth lies in everyone's hands not just to a single person.