people are helping but you have some who don't do much. And those light bulbs are not healthy, they hurt us by making our heads hurt. They really don't help. Back to the environment, the public's attitude has to change, there should be more garbage pals around my town and in the city, maybe other places.
If you compare the number of people doing something to help the environment to those that are just sitting down saying it's overrated and are not doing anything, the fraction is clear and simple that very little is being done to help the environment.
I really think that a lot of people are not doing what is needed to help they environment expecially the younger people. A lot of the kids at my school don't care about the envvironment and think that gobal warming is a myth. but I am ready to change their persepcations and get them out to do something for the environment.
i know for a fact that people barely care about the environment. i see it all the time. if we were doing all we could, no one wold have giant SUVs, and there wouldn't be so much trash every where. most people don't even do the simple task of recycling!
people of the 20 first century are so stupid. as adolesents, i'm pretty sure we have all had an assembly of some sort on global warming and what have you. there are so many things that people are trying to do, and no one is taking the proper action. you DO have people changing the world as we know it, but only about one quarter. its not enough. we NEED MORE SUPPORTERS. if everyone would pitch in for once, we might just save our planet earth. DONT YOU PEOPLE ENJOY LIVING ON THE ONLY PLANET THAT HAS OXYGEN?! I mean really, lets all do something about this problem. I know I am.
there are so many ways to help the environemnt that no one does. In my class, only two other kids and i have the kind of notebooks that are made of sugarcane wast, which is great for the environment and prevents deforestation. And out of every five students, at least two of them dont recycle! which is ridiculous, since it doesnt really take much effort to throw a tin can into a recycling bin.
i feel as though society doesn't take global warming seriously! The small things such as recycling can easily be done but people ignore this issue. Wake up it is time for our generation to do something!
I wouldn't say that "It's pathetic. People aren't doing nearly enough to help the environment." However we can do more than what we are doing right now. Where I live we had a whole week on Earth Day! They recognizes to take action but they don't. Environmental issues are a serious matter and those who does not like "seriousness" would not care about the environment. Well to those who thinks "It's overrated. People are making too big a deal about the environment," MAKE IT FUNN. I have funn and feel good when i get to help the environment and we should be proud that we are helping the environment. Some do get too serious about it, just try to have a fun time.
It seems like people only care because it's in the media and the spotlight and if they do something they get a glimse of fame. but when that 15 minutes of fame is over they'll abandon it.
True people care forever,
fake people expect something greater than the ending result.
people dont do nearly enough 2 help. just the other day , i saw a girl eat a koolaid & she dropped the wrapper n the floor. AND A GARBAGE CAN WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!!!! what's up with that????
I am lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful areas of the country. The county government just this year, 2010, began a recycling campaign. We have a large lake and multiple rivers that are loaded with human trash and waste. The mentality of many people here is " don't tell me what I can or can't do on my land." I am involved in a year-long effort to educate the community about litter and am accepting volunteers for our annual lake cleanup this September. In an area this rural and sparsly populated, finding interested people to participate once a year is proving very difficult. But I will not give up. I hate litter.
I think man is playing a part in global warming. Its not because we are putting to much C02 in the air. It is because the logging industry have decimated our trees. The main source of taking it out of the air. Especially the rain forests. These forests are the life givers of our world. They control so much of what happens, in regards to our weather and temperatures. Ocean currents. This is the real threat. We have lost half of our rain forests since 1970.
I urge you to eductae yourself on this. This is the real reason we are killing out planet. As well as contaminating our water supplies. People who have there yards sprayed with chemicals. So there grass stays green all summer. I guess people dont know that grass lays dormant, for most of the summer. That is why it turns brown sometimes. Its supposed to.
I encourage all green alternatives towards energy. Because it helps us to be more independent. As well as the environment.
fist off, the car situation can never be solved as long as we get our electricity from coal plants. electric cars run on electricity (duh) and electricity comes from COAL PLANTS. coal plant smokestacks emit chemicals and radioactive waste that contaminates water supplies and, if you believe in global warming, desecrates the ozone layer. even those who don't believe in human contribution to global warming must admit that coal plants are harmful and that driving cars that emit carbon dioxide ruins the air quality in urban areas and contributes to the death and disease rate.
second, many of the alternative energy schemes don't work or are impractical. solar panels, even in a desert, operate at only around 15% efficiency at the most. it would take a solar farm the size of connecticut and vermont to supply the u.s alone with HALF of our power needs. the rest of the world's power needs are aren't even included. solar panels are also insanely expensive to say the least, and they must be washed and maintained every two to three weeks. it would take hundreds of billions of dollars PER YEAR to maintain a solar farm of the size needed to give us only a fraction of our power needs. (and also a lot of water.) let's not get into the building implications.
as for wind, it is also very inefficient, although better than solar, but is insanely expensive and could only provide us with a fraction of our needs at best. wind is too fickle of a provider to stand alone.
ethanol is too impractical. it comes from corn, and it would take A LOT of corn to cover the world's energy demands. most of the world's grown food would have to be corn. large corn subsidies would be needed to make it economically viable, and we already pay billions a year for farmers to flood the market. (as more corn is made, the price goes down because supply exceeds demand, but farmers just keep growing more corn in order to make up for the lower prices. when the prices go below a certain point, the subsidy payments go even higher.)
clean coal doesn't exist. the smokestack emissions are gone, but the toxic chemicals are still present in the coal ash, and there is A LOT of it. where does the deadly ash go? underground...where it is expected to remain forever, but there have been cases where the carbon dioxide escapes and kills many people before tearing up the ozone. plus, coal mines emit methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than co2.
hydrogen cells for cars wouldn't work. hydrogen can't be stored properly and it will leak from tanks and pipes and escape to the atmosphere. hydrogen is also a greenhouse gas more potent than co2.
natural gas also leaks from pipelines and tanks at a rate of almost 3% of total gas produced. this makes it no better for the environment than burning oil. it's better than coal, but natural gas prices would skyrocket due to the increased demand and limited supply.
nuclear plants as they are now are no good. they are called light water reactors, and each one is different than the other, which makes production expensive and standards open ended. plus there's the waste that lasts thousands of years. of course, integrated fast reactors and breeder reactors would fix those problems and most likely solve our energy problems, but most people don't know about them and gore and kerry have cut their funding and production.
as you can see, a large part of being environmentally conscious is not through action, but through knowledge. we cannot act properly if we are not well informed.
The Earth's temperature has fluxuated so much over it's long life what is to say the actual average temperature is? At one time North America had a tropical climate and man was not around to have been the cause. Was this the normal temperature? At one time North America was ice covered, was this the normal temperature? The Earth is billions of years old, we have been recording it's temperature for 100 years.
Respected scientists were trashed because they didn't agree that man made global warming was happening while virtually unknown scientists were taken at their word with out question even though their data was flawed then the flaws were covered up.
Where I live, this is something that is "top priority". All that some people did at my school was limit the amount of papers a teacher can use per month. We have no assembly for Earth Day, and I'm sad to say that the younger children are much more enthusiastic about Green Living than the older ones. They even made a garden, which I'm not sure whether or not is still there.
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people are helping but you have some who don't do much. And those light bulbs are not healthy, they hurt us by making our heads hurt. They really don't help. Back to the environment, the public's attitude has to change, there should be more garbage pals around my town and in the city, maybe other places.
If you compare the number of people doing something to help the environment to those that are just sitting down saying it's overrated and are not doing anything, the fraction is clear and simple that very little is being done to help the environment.
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I really think that a lot of people are not doing what is needed to help they environment expecially the younger people. A lot of the kids at my school don't care about the envvironment and think that gobal warming is a myth. but I am ready to change their persepcations and get them out to do something for the environment.
i know for a fact that people barely care about the environment. i see it all the time. if we were doing all we could, no one wold have giant SUVs, and there wouldn't be so much trash every where. most people don't even do the simple task of recycling!
people of the 20 first century are so stupid. as adolesents, i'm pretty sure we have all had an assembly of some sort on global warming and what have you. there are so many things that people are trying to do, and no one is taking the proper action. you DO have people changing the world as we know it, but only about one quarter. its not enough. we NEED MORE SUPPORTERS. if everyone would pitch in for once, we might just save our planet earth. DONT YOU PEOPLE ENJOY LIVING ON THE ONLY PLANET THAT HAS OXYGEN?! I mean really, lets all do something about this problem. I know I am.
there are so many ways to help the environemnt that no one does. In my class, only two other kids and i have the kind of notebooks that are made of sugarcane wast, which is great for the environment and prevents deforestation. And out of every five students, at least two of them dont recycle! which is ridiculous, since it doesnt really take much effort to throw a tin can into a recycling bin.
i feel as though society doesn't take global warming seriously! The small things such as recycling can easily be done but people ignore this issue. Wake up it is time for our generation to do something!
I wouldn't say that "It's pathetic. People aren't doing nearly enough to help the environment." However we can do more than what we are doing right now. Where I live we had a whole week on Earth Day! They recognizes to take action but they don't. Environmental issues are a serious matter and those who does not like "seriousness" would not care about the environment. Well to those who thinks "It's overrated. People are making too big a deal about the environment," MAKE IT FUNN. I have funn and feel good when i get to help the environment and we should be proud that we are helping the environment. Some do get too serious about it, just try to have a fun time.
It seems like people only care because it's in the media and the spotlight and if they do something they get a glimse of fame. but when that 15 minutes of fame is over they'll abandon it.
True people care forever,
fake people expect something greater than the ending result.
people dont do nearly enough 2 help. just the other day , i saw a girl eat a koolaid & she dropped the wrapper n the floor. AND A GARBAGE CAN WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!!!! what's up with that????
I am lucky enough to live in one of the most beautiful areas of the country. The county government just this year, 2010, began a recycling campaign. We have a large lake and multiple rivers that are loaded with human trash and waste. The mentality of many people here is " don't tell me what I can or can't do on my land." I am involved in a year-long effort to educate the community about litter and am accepting volunteers for our annual lake cleanup this September. In an area this rural and sparsly populated, finding interested people to participate once a year is proving very difficult. But I will not give up. I hate litter.
At my house every day people drive by and throw their lunch leftovers out the window. It disgusts me. Please reply if you know how to help.
I think man is playing a part in global warming. Its not because we are putting to much C02 in the air. It is because the logging industry have decimated our trees. The main source of taking it out of the air. Especially the rain forests. These forests are the life givers of our world. They control so much of what happens, in regards to our weather and temperatures. Ocean currents. This is the real threat. We have lost half of our rain forests since 1970.
I urge you to eductae yourself on this. This is the real reason we are killing out planet. As well as contaminating our water supplies. People who have there yards sprayed with chemicals. So there grass stays green all summer. I guess people dont know that grass lays dormant, for most of the summer. That is why it turns brown sometimes. Its supposed to.
I encourage all green alternatives towards energy. Because it helps us to be more independent. As well as the environment.
fist off, the car situation can never be solved as long as we get our electricity from coal plants. electric cars run on electricity (duh) and electricity comes from COAL PLANTS. coal plant smokestacks emit chemicals and radioactive waste that contaminates water supplies and, if you believe in global warming, desecrates the ozone layer. even those who don't believe in human contribution to global warming must admit that coal plants are harmful and that driving cars that emit carbon dioxide ruins the air quality in urban areas and contributes to the death and disease rate.
second, many of the alternative energy schemes don't work or are impractical. solar panels, even in a desert, operate at only around 15% efficiency at the most. it would take a solar farm the size of connecticut and vermont to supply the u.s alone with HALF of our power needs. the rest of the world's power needs are aren't even included. solar panels are also insanely expensive to say the least, and they must be washed and maintained every two to three weeks. it would take hundreds of billions of dollars PER YEAR to maintain a solar farm of the size needed to give us only a fraction of our power needs. (and also a lot of water.) let's not get into the building implications.
as for wind, it is also very inefficient, although better than solar, but is insanely expensive and could only provide us with a fraction of our needs at best. wind is too fickle of a provider to stand alone.
ethanol is too impractical. it comes from corn, and it would take A LOT of corn to cover the world's energy demands. most of the world's grown food would have to be corn. large corn subsidies would be needed to make it economically viable, and we already pay billions a year for farmers to flood the market. (as more corn is made, the price goes down because supply exceeds demand, but farmers just keep growing more corn in order to make up for the lower prices. when the prices go below a certain point, the subsidy payments go even higher.)
clean coal doesn't exist. the smokestack emissions are gone, but the toxic chemicals are still present in the coal ash, and there is A LOT of it. where does the deadly ash go? underground...where it is expected to remain forever, but there have been cases where the carbon dioxide escapes and kills many people before tearing up the ozone. plus, coal mines emit methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than co2.
hydrogen cells for cars wouldn't work. hydrogen can't be stored properly and it will leak from tanks and pipes and escape to the atmosphere. hydrogen is also a greenhouse gas more potent than co2.
natural gas also leaks from pipelines and tanks at a rate of almost 3% of total gas produced. this makes it no better for the environment than burning oil. it's better than coal, but natural gas prices would skyrocket due to the increased demand and limited supply.
nuclear plants as they are now are no good. they are called light water reactors, and each one is different than the other, which makes production expensive and standards open ended. plus there's the waste that lasts thousands of years. of course, integrated fast reactors and breeder reactors would fix those problems and most likely solve our energy problems, but most people don't know about them and gore and kerry have cut their funding and production.
as you can see, a large part of being environmentally conscious is not through action, but through knowledge. we cannot act properly if we are not well informed.
The Earth's temperature has fluxuated so much over it's long life what is to say the actual average temperature is? At one time North America had a tropical climate and man was not around to have been the cause. Was this the normal temperature? At one time North America was ice covered, was this the normal temperature? The Earth is billions of years old, we have been recording it's temperature for 100 years.
Respected scientists were trashed because they didn't agree that man made global warming was happening while virtually unknown scientists were taken at their word with out question even though their data was flawed then the flaws were covered up.
everyone at my school thinks that global warming is just a joke. But it's not! We are really pathetic!
Where I live, this is something that is "top priority". All that some people did at my school was limit the amount of papers a teacher can use per month. We have no assembly for Earth Day, and I'm sad to say that the younger children are much more enthusiastic about Green Living than the older ones. They even made a garden, which I'm not sure whether or not is still there.