Global Warming! are we all responsible?

Absolutely, we are responsible as individuals and as nations. Each of us needs to be conscious of making green decisions. And we must pressure our governments to do the same. I haven't seen the movie but I did read the book. It was very convincing, giving evidence after evidence of serious problems coming from global warming. At the same time it gave hope that if we se5riously change our ways now we can turn it around. At the moment, Ethanol is the best choice available. The raw materials for doing it are abundant and replaceable. There is a man in our city who makes his own ethanol for his Lexus with a still in his back yard. He uses wasted fruit, things that are too ripe to use or to sell. Other people use corn. It is my understanding that the most economical and easy to replace would be hemp, if the government allowed it to be grown. You know, currently we pay farmers NOT to grow certain crops. We could be paying them to grow crops that are used as fuel for automobiles instead. This would save the government money and keep the fuel market in our own country and save the environment all at the same time. But there are lots of little things we each can do, even if we can't make our own fuel. I was amazed at how much of a difference it would make if we didn't let our cars idle, especially at drive-thru windows. Get up and go inside. Not only are you saving the environment but you are getting a smidgen of healthy exercise. [Or better yet, go someplace to eat that serves healthy food!] We can use less water. Clean water is getting harder and harder to provide. We don't need to let the water run while we brush our teeth, for instance. And we don't need to use fuel to heat water that doesn't need to be boiling hot. We can only run full loads of the dishwasher and clothes washer. We can dry our clothes outside on clotheslines whenever possible. We can use toilets that flush with less water and showerheads that use less water. We can use less plastics and recycle more of the ones we do use. We can make recycling a priority. We can manufacture and purchase more fuel effecient vehicles. We can use more mass transit. On and on and on. We must wake up and do whatever we can to restore the earth to its former health. When we destroy the environment we destroy ourselves.

Yes I think we are all responsible for global warming, for we all do leave some foot prints in this world. I think Government is also responsible, for not giving us better alternatives to use that are less harming to the environment.

We are not responsible because if we are, the natural remedy is by having no kids, and that would be those of European background who would be pressured into childlessness and would be construed as racial prejudice or saying that brown or black races are better than everyone else,etc.. We could have only one or two children, but that too would not be right because when the climate is cool enough, perhaps those families are no more, because that one or two child may have decided to remain childless or be unable to produce any himself or herself. We can do all the recycling and being frugal, but that might mean lowering our standard of living to that of the 19th century (I am talking about the West here), and that would mean more deaths of pneumonia,etc. And you forget one thing, some of us have grown up without, we have gone without the luxuries, had to live on casseroles, gone to second hand stores to buy our clothes, walked and only took the bus when it was quite a distance, turned off the lights, grew our veggies, did not buy junk food, etc. If you have already done these things, it was because you wanted to stretch a dollar, not to save the earth. Besides God is in charge of these things, not the earth goddess or whatever you call it and I've seen so many science fiction movies where evil trees come and devour humans and the earth reaches out tentacles and grabs its victims from below, to find the idea of global warming caused by man as ridiculous.

I think to a large extent we are all guilty. This is the lifestyle we have all longed for and now we have it. Howver, many individuals have woken up to the inherent problems in all of this. I really do not think the governments are listening at this point, and they probably never will. Money and business means too much to them. Nevertheless, we created this mess...