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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Conservative: "I don't know why we are spending so much money on Global Warming. It's a hoax and there is global cooling and it's just made up by evil scientists trying to make a buck."
Environmentalist: "Well, because if the whole of the ice caps melt, the world will look like this. Are you willing to take the chance that we are wrong?"
Conservative: "Bunch of chicken littles trying to scaremonger."
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You can't win. If environmentalists were to soft-pedal the issue, it doesn't get taken seriously. If environmentalists push the issue, they are labelled 'alarmists'. I don't know what you want. |
That's the thing, I'm trying to stay level headed but what bolded is part of the problem with this debate, and with any issues really. The media (and maybe the general human nature) really only responds to headlines. It's sad, but science stories and issues can't compete with how many women Tiger's has been with, or what's going on Hollywood.
It took Al Gore's movie about Polar bear drowning and the end of the world type doom and gloom to really get people to think about Climate change and the environment. Right now, it's a shouting match between 2 heavily entrenched sides, each with their own agendas, that it's really hard to get an unbias view of the issue
I was responding to quoted text by Flames in 07, "
The better discussion (by far) is if human activity is playing much of a role, again, nobody knows for sure however even if we think the chances are slight, that's reason in itself to change behavior."
What I was trying to say is that I agree with him, it's a good thing that we should be changing our behaviour regarding the environment.
Water conservation, recycling, reducing sulphur and ozone destroying chemicals, stop dumping waste into our oceans..etc are all things I agree with.
Something like carbon capture programs where we are trapping CO2 (which isn't a pollutant in the first place) into deep underground tubes, that's an example of something I believe is a waste of resources.
From what I remember in geology in university, ice ages happen in cycles and we are due for one. With that being said, the period right after our last ice age would represent a time where there was a rapid warming of climate. Before that last ice age, well, that was a time period that would be charaterized as rapid cooling. It is a very difficult science to determine how much is do to our doing, and how much of it is a geological thing that we have very little control of.
In a round about way, I guess what I'm trying to say is that:
- I'm not on either side, I have my own opinions and believes, but I'm willing to learn more about it myself
- I do believe climate is changing, but the real issue for debate is how much we are responsible for it
- If we have an impact, let's change our ways than, but do so rationally