What about Climate Change?
By scruffygirl
@scruffygirl (120)
Italy
September 26, 2010 7:13am CST
Nowadays the climate change represents one of the greatest problems facing the globe. The greenhouse effect is very important as it relates to the gases which keep the Earth warm. In my opinion there are several things we can do to reduce the problem because we are beyond the point we can completely avoid significant distruption.
Firstly, we can minimize the waste we are producing; we can do our part by switching to alternative energy sources.
Secondly,here where I live(Sardinia),the mistral is the dominant wind and we could take advantage of it producing wind energy. We also have the sunshine for the whole year so we could take advantage producing solar energy.
Finally, I do not think that the Governments take good care of our climate. I think they do not do enough to solve the problem.
In conclusion, I am sure that if every person followed some simply rules,our planet would have some benefits.
What do you think? Have your say!
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
20 Oct 10
Welcome to My Lot 
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All of these things you list will have virtually no impact on stopping or reversing global warming or climate change, even if everyone does them. Minimizing waste is good, but makes no real difference to reducing or reversing the production of greenhouse gasses that are warming our planet at an unnatural rate. Alternative energy sources are extremely inefficient, expensive & make no real difference to global warming, especially inside the fifty years it takes atmospheric carbon dioxide to break down. It is not up to the government of any nation to find a solution to global warming: we caused it, we must fix it. Blaming governments who should be placing all their attention on managing the economy & doing things they are known to be very effective at doing, is of no use at all. Doing this just takes the responsibility away from ourselves.
I've been responding to discussions on this very topic ever since joining My Lot. Firstly & foremost, educate yourselves on what is the single most efficient way to combat & reverse global warming. Then take the appropriate action. Carefully study everything the world media has been reporting about the observable effects of climate change since the year 2000. Find the common cause behind all of these. It's not too tricky to figure it out. Don't listen to those who stand to profiteer from the catastrophe either. Al Gore must have made millions from selling his books & promoting the rubbish within its pages. Of course he has also convinced the world's governments to sacrifice their economies for "the environment". I'm not going to type out pages & pages on here only to have the "powers that be" delete my posts, so I'll leave it with you. Many billions today are working very hard in this ideal resulting in delaying the self-destruction (people-destruction) of our earth beyond 2012. We may yet succeed in saving this quickly dying planet, but this will require the combined efforts of the entire population.
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All of these things you list will have virtually no impact on stopping or reversing global warming or climate change, even if everyone does them. Minimizing waste is good, but makes no real difference to reducing or reversing the production of greenhouse gasses that are warming our planet at an unnatural rate. Alternative energy sources are extremely inefficient, expensive & make no real difference to global warming, especially inside the fifty years it takes atmospheric carbon dioxide to break down. It is not up to the government of any nation to find a solution to global warming: we caused it, we must fix it. Blaming governments who should be placing all their attention on managing the economy & doing things they are known to be very effective at doing, is of no use at all. Doing this just takes the responsibility away from ourselves.
I've been responding to discussions on this very topic ever since joining My Lot. Firstly & foremost, educate yourselves on what is the single most efficient way to combat & reverse global warming. Then take the appropriate action. Carefully study everything the world media has been reporting about the observable effects of climate change since the year 2000. Find the common cause behind all of these. It's not too tricky to figure it out. Don't listen to those who stand to profiteer from the catastrophe either. Al Gore must have made millions from selling his books & promoting the rubbish within its pages. Of course he has also convinced the world's governments to sacrifice their economies for "the environment". I'm not going to type out pages & pages on here only to have the "powers that be" delete my posts, so I'll leave it with you. Many billions today are working very hard in this ideal resulting in delaying the self-destruction (people-destruction) of our earth beyond 2012. We may yet succeed in saving this quickly dying planet, but this will require the combined efforts of the entire population.
@IsisGreen (554)
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2 Nov 10
Reading between the lines a bit here, your understanding is that "the single most efficient way to combat & reverse global warming" is to cease eating meat. (Is that right?)
It's not a bad idea in principle. Meat production is certainly very carbon intensive (and methane producing). But I think we need to get real about how such a change might occur. There is simply no way you will convince the world to give up meat just like that. Calling upon governments to change the regulations under which we all collectively live is not absolving ourselves of responsibility but, rather, absolutely essential in order to bring about real and effective change.
For example, only governments can introduce an international carbon permits trading programme, emissions tax, or even (if you were so inclined, which I'm not) ban meat production outright.
@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
2 Nov 10
Thank you for your interest in this important & urgent issue. Yes, you have understood correctly. There are already, as we speak, between 2.5 & 4 billion full-time vegans in the world. The aim is not to force everyone to change their diets at once; we have some time left, but the sooner the better. People need to be educated on the choices they're making, so they can be informed choices. It is the single most effective individual choice anyone can possibly make on the matter.
Over 2500 years ago, the Buddha said something along the lines of "if there would be no eating of meat, there would be no killing". This need not involve a government decision at all. If you have a look, all around the world, no big government has any clear decision-making majority at all. If no one ate meat, the livestock industry will cease to exist. No government intervention required. Of course, as more voters in each electorate form vocal minorities, politicians may feel it necessary to implement some sort of favourable micro-economic reforms, but these are also non-essential.
