Global Warming
By ik1989
@ik1989 (18)
India
May 8, 2007 8:43pm CST
Do you believe that global warming is going to affect us really in our lifetime?
I have read so much about its ghastly effects from the media folk.But,I feel it's only a hype? Emissions have been there for more than a couple of centuries.Had it been really so alarming as these guys from the media say, wouldn't it have wreaked as much havoc all these years that we would have been extinct by now?
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@oldiebut (859)
• Canada
9 May 07
A significant part of emissions come from automobiles, which were certainly not in existence 200 years ago, and reach new peaks every year. Moreover, the emissions of 200 years ago (considering the first phase of industrialization) were concentrated in Europe and then in America. Those emissions still exist, joined by Russia and Japan in the 1930s, and now by India and China in vast new numbers. The current top polluter is the United States, consider what happens when the far more numerous Chinese catch up to their standard of living.
I'm old enough that it won't affect me much. If you are under 30, you should bloody well be worried.
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
9 May 07
Don't kid yourself. its already affecting you. Look at the storms that have happened in the past few years, and the weird winter we all had this year. Also, the honey bees are dieing off. I know the PTB blame cell phones, but its just as likely to be that minute jump in temperature with its extra few days of bacteria and mold growth. And here in alberta, crops are not doing so well, either. Prices are already rising/ You're affected all right, you just don't realize it.
