| [ General ] | A variety of conversations about any environmental topic | | [ Pollution and Recycling ] | The effects of pollution, the necessity to recycle or not. Managing our consumerism. | | [ Technology ] | Where technology has brought us, where it is taking us, for better or worse. | | [ Threatened Species and Habitat ] | Species extinction, habitat destruction, and their causes | | [ Environmental Policies ] | The U.S. Government, and other governments policies on the environment. | | [ Climate Change ] | Debate the truths of climate change. | | [ People Polls ] | Conversations in response to the "People Polls" section. | |
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Your Perspective : Do you think climate change is real in any way, shape, or form?
Posts: 4 Created on: March 19, 2009 |
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| I think it is actually sort of irrelevant whether or not global warming/climate change is as extreme as they say. The same things that are purported to be causing this are also causing so much more damage to our world. I think the damage to our environment and the species in it are far less repairable than the problems we may have with our atmosphere. Granted, everything is linked and the atmospheres problem is an ecosystem's problem as well, I think that the bigger portion of our problems are still down on the ground. |
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| There is only one solution to climate change, loss of species and damage to the environment. A complete idealistic change is needed. The world(especially the U.S.) needs to become less consumptive. We need to change the way we eat, the way we buy, basically we need to change the way we live our lives. Its sad that people dont look at humans as a part of nature, even though we are probably the greatest influencing factor. As soon as people start looking at humans as a piece to the puzzle of nature all these negative things will turn around but until then its only going to keep going downhill. |
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| I completely agree. We have to cut through all the technical bullshit and get down to the root of the problem, which you have described. I myself am finding it difficult to change habits and preferences. I've done little things, but everything seems so hard to achieve or impractical to accomplish considering any particular persons life situation. I guess at least adding awareness starts moving people in the right direction, but to really get people going, that seems hard, even when the facts are written on the wall. | |
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| I totally agree. Its like my science teacher says "stop talking the talk and walk the walk." Don't go around telling people to try and stop global warming if you're not doing it yourself. It is definitely not easy to change your ways, especially when you've been doing it your whole life. And yes, it is hard to get people going, but soon everyone will. But people only seem to try when something bad is coming. Who knows when that will be? |
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| | May 11, 2009, 9:06 pm | Your Perspective : Do you think climate change is real in any way, shape, or form?
Posts: 4 Created on: March 19, 2009 | | May 6, 2009, 10:06 pm | The costs of Recycing Some say recycling is pointless and expensive.
Posts: 2 Created on: January 16, 2009 | | April 21, 2009, 1:00 am | Population Peak Its now predicted that the world population will cap around 8 1/2 billion in 2050.
Posts: 1 Created on: April 21, 2009 | | April 12, 2009, 12:43 am | What Bush Did Bush really did some odd things to our environmental polices, i.e. the clean(dirty) air act, etc..
Posts: 1 Created on: March 17, 2009 | | March 22, 2009, 1:48 am | Poll Conversation: Do you shop for organic food?
Posts: 1 Created on: March 22, 2009 | | March 22, 2009, 1:41 am | Poll Conversation: Should the U.S. explorer drilling in ANWAR?
Posts: 1 Created on: March 19, 2009 | | March 20, 2009, 12:28 am | Poll Conversation: Do you use CFL light bulbs?
Posts: 1 Created on: March 20, 2009 | | March 17, 2009, 12:19 am | Exponential Technology Some believe, and with good reason, that we will transcend nature to a state where it is controlled by man, not the other way around.
Posts: 1 Created on: March 17, 2009 | | March 17, 2009, 12:09 am | Dominant Species Since natural selection favors the dominant variation or competing species, should we?
Posts: 1 Created on: January 16, 2009 | | March 16, 2009, 11:58 pm | Your Ideas What matters to you in the face of environmental problems and their solutions?
Posts: 2 Created on: January 5, 2009 |
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