The Enviroment?

@Lunerian (493)
Sweden
January 30, 2007 4:58am CST
I wish to start a discussion about the enviroment and global warming and such. Now that global warming is a fact, we all have noticed it I hope and due to the melting of the poles for example millins will be turned homeless in less than a hundred years. We should all be helping for that is the way, everyone can make a difference, take a walk instead of a drive, buy the right products and so on. What more can we do?
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• Philippines
30 Jan 07
i was suppose to start the same discussion but anyways, what we can do is inform others of the effect of the activities that we do to the environment.. baba dioum, an african conservationist said that... "we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." look for the documentary, "an inconvenient truth" it discusses a lot of the global effect of global warming and climate change and what goverment can do to help lessen its effect....hope to hear from others...
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@Lunerian (493)
• Sweden
30 Jan 07
Yeah I will, that movie actually is shown for free at movietheatres here in sweden, that in itself is a good way to educate.
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• Philippines
31 Jan 07
wow!! that is nice to hear...i'm a member of a civic/environmental organization in our school and what we usually do is post environmental news on the bulletin boards of each college and we also conduct information desimination by talking to the profressors to allow us to speak in front of the class for five minutes about current environmental issues facing our country. we also try to tie-up with other environmental organization and try to help each other out with their projects and campaigns
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@Lunerian (493)
• Sweden
31 Jan 07
You may be right it may be propaganda but still it's good propaganda, It won't hurt anyone if we improved on these things would it?
@SageMother (2277)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I truly believe that thre should be ahuge push to hae people working at home on their computers. There are many programs that allow one to og into their computer at their office, from their home and accomplish tasks that way. There are alos tutoring programs here, for children in after school programs. If the time spent int he physical classroom could be reduced to 3 days a week, the impact of students being criven to school would decreased. Afforrestation, the establishment of new forests where none exist now, would serve to re-balance the atmosphere to compensate for the burning of the rain forests, should be happening more than it is right now. Governments need to create tax incentives for those who take on these tasks to make a better environment for us all.
@Timinator (739)
• United States
31 Jan 07
I don't think that global warming can be stopped. The government and the major corporations would lose too much money, and money is all they care about. They are the ones saying that global warming isn't an issue. The only way to stop global warming is for all internal combustion engines be changed to electric engines, and most of the power plants to become solar based. The problem is, the world economy is running on oil, and it can't run on electricity, so the governments and oil companies will destroy any company that tries to make electric cars. That is what happened in california a decade ago. The technology exists, but the oil companies won't let it grow.
@Lunerian (493)
• Sweden
31 Jan 07
But still the corporations are dependant on it's customers and if customers don't wnt oil there will be no oil, get my point?
@minerc (1373)
• United States
31 Jan 07
This in not anything new, I remeber hearing about this stuff as a kid growing up. I dont think that we are causing this, I believe it's just the cycle of the earth every so many thousands of years. We should always be aware of the products we buy because the chemicals and stuff they put in them will cause illness and disease. Please don't get offended this is my opinion.
• Philippines
4 Feb 07
maybe you are right its just a cycle that the earth undergoes but look at the possible result if this phenomenon continues, melting of the polar ice caps, increase in sea level and they say that some of the islands may be under the water in the next few decade if this continues... we are not saying that we can totally stop this phenomenon we are merely delaying this events from happening.
@Lunerian (493)
• Sweden
31 Jan 07
I respect your opinion but I really think your wrong. I have personallty seen winters getting shorter, this year the snow didn't come til just a week ago and usually it comes severla weeks before christmas, somethings happening and it's happening way too fast. I have enough knowledge in the subject to know that such a change as I've seen should take atleast a hundred years.
• United States
4 Feb 07
2% of the polar caps are melting, 2%!!! What about the other 98% that are actually in a cooling trend? The U.N. panel predicting a build up of ice and snow mass in Antarctica over the next century, not a melt down. Al Gore forgets to mention this in is book and mockumentry. I am not trying to offend you people but just give you a view from the other side.