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It seems these days lines are being drawn between those that "believe" in global warming and those that don't. Well guess what, I am not an environmentalist ("tree-hugger" as some might call me) because of global warming, although it is worth mentioning that I do believe the planet is warming, and I do believe that people do have some effect on that process.
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55 Comments on It's Not About Global Warming
Great post Christa! I have noticed a sudden media surge in "Believing in Global Warming", this is the great debate of our time. Green is the new Darwinism. I feel that you have a great point, whether you are a 'believer' or not, we should all do our part to support a CLEAN environment. Thanks for sharing this food for thought!
Ok, Larry from Delaware: Beef from feedlots bad. Grass fed beef: Good. Actually, great for the environment. (my husband has a grass fed beef business from his ranch...)
I agree that we waste to much, and as a society we are very spoiled to our electricity. We need to learn to be more self-reliant, less dependent. Reuse is great. HOWEVER, I really suspect that this new recycle/reuse/thrift shop trend in one of the causes of our bad economy. Everyone blames it on loans and housing, but as soon as all the major media picked up on the thrify/reuse trend, sales in retail started dropping, and it started the cycle.
That being said, we as a culture needed an ajustment. I was so amaized after Hurricane Katrina and Ike when the power was off for a few days and people did not know what to do with theirselves! They couldn't cope! It was sad how stupid and spoiled we have become in the last 100 years! They freaked! I was really pitiful!
I never thought of it that way. Being the maneater caveman type I thought tree huggers were more concerned about whales and stuff that wasn't as important as what you have mentioned. congratulations on the feature.
Christa, I was so excited to read your post. I agree with you totally, and can't understand why everyone doesn't agree that we are a wasteful society and we need to preserve our environment. I'm amazed that there's so much controversy about global warming and it's causes. In it's simplistic form, our efforts to curb greenhouse gases is like insurance - taking action now in case of a disaster later. There are many issues in which I can see both sides - but this isn't one of them.
Actually the Eath is cooling and the proof is completely clear. It used to be a ball of molten lava and now it is cold hard rock. However, I agree with you - being environmentally responsible is not only critically important, it is beautiful. I love your reasons. It's too bad when politically or economically motivated fabrications like the man-created global warming scare come along and can often turn people OFF being responsible. If they'd just stick to the facts, people would follow.
I am all for living a more Green life as it just makes sense, but I do not support any government or organization mandating things that will transform the basic fabric of America and plunge my off spring into a load of debt never before seen.
I find it most amusing that the 'same scientists' who were clamouring about global cooling and a mini ice age, just a few decades ago ( and yes they were wrong) are now claiming the AGW. It would be laughable if the proposed ways of dealing with 'the problem' were not so contrary and damaging to the american way
Has anyone considered 'our dependence on M.E. oil' as a strategic National Security Act. We keep our reserves, while the ME burns through theirs and after a few decades the Middle East becomes irrelevant again while we have our reserves, and we develop alternative energies. If anybody should be putting billions into Alternative Energies it is the Middle East, their cash crop is running out
It's hard to disagree with any of your points in here. But still, the only time I will ever hug a tree is if it's covered in bacon.
I do agree that we all should be concerned for our environment, but I don't belive in global warming. I think it is another way to take money from the people. Great video to watch: Global Warming or Global Governance? http://www.sprword.com/videos/globalgovernance/
I don't believe in anthropogenic global warming. Aside from the now obvious manipulation of data and public opinion by scientists... politicians are using their created crisis to exert more control.
For them it isn't about energy independence... if it was, we could eliminate importation from the middle east in 10 years... and we could have started 15 years ago.
It isn't about saving the planet... if it was, they wouldn't propose a cap and trade scheme that is going to send good manufacturing jobs overseas (where there will be no such limitations), AND result in increased productionof the same gases they are trying to limit (the places where the manufacturing will be going will allow "dirtier" plants, and materials will need to be shipped there while finished products are shipped back)
There are a few reasons to be "green"... Saving money (and saving resources...) by being more efficient is probably the best one.
Anthropogenic global warming is a tool for the political class to attack freedom. It is a tool for the collectivist class to attack individualism. It isn't a reality.
I have been living 'green' when you could not even find products that were so called 'green'. I use non toxic cleaners, grow our vegis, eat organic, don't eat dairy, and all that we do is for the health of my family. I did not make these decisions because of global warming because I do not believe that climate change is caused by man. I went green, no preservatives, no pesticides because they cause cancer in humans. Pure and simple reasons, no politics involved.
How arrogant is man that they think that GOD is not smarter than man. If you believe in God then you must believe that God knows everything and would put safeguards in place so that arrogant people would not destroy his earth and if there is climate change that nature is creating- there is nothing that man can do about it to stop it and that just makes it a part of God's plan towards cleansing his earth that he created.
That being said, I have always recycled and I don't litter and I don't pollute any more than I need to to live my lifestyle- not because of global warming but because I respect what the Lord has made and to show my respect I don't do things like litter.
I know we need to get off of foreign oil. But we need to drill here in our country. There are super clean ways to get oil out of the ground here in the US. The natural gas pipeline from Alaska is so full of abundant clean gas energy that if we would use it- the ships from other countries would be coming here to get their energy instead of us going there. The foreign oil thing is a stupid political thing that has been going on for years and needs to stop.
The cap and trade bill is not going to give you a cleaner earth. If you are a Realtor you need to be very concerned on how cap and trade would effect your business and people's ability to sell their homes. We are already having people in a part of Florida who can not sell their homes because of a state EPA type ruling that they have to buy new septic tanks which would cost so much money that no one can afford to sell their homes.
The only people who gain in all of this are the super rich GE's of the world. And sadly none of them are becoming super rich through capitalism and free markets but rather through regulations and legislations which is called fascism in politics 101 classes. Al Gore will become the first green billionaire and all the people who hate big corporations are just sitting back and allowing it to happen because they think that it is better to have the elitists take over all aspects of our lives with the small change you are helping the planet when in reality you are not. It is a huge marketing scheme.
Case in Point- Clorox bleach is a huge poisonous toxin. We don't use bleach. Vinegar does the same thing without being toxic. But Chlorox knows that and they still peddled their clorox and most of you bought it. Now they jump on the band wagon and sell so called natural earth friendly cleaners with their label on it. What hypocrites. Just to make money and because they have to jump on the green band wagon. Where were they when they were knowingly allowing people all over the earth to breathe those bleach fumes? I will NEVER buy products from a company who jumps on the band wagon for the wrong reasons. I will go out of my way to buy a light bulb that is NOT made by GE.
Who are we to tell other people how to live, what to eat, what to say, what to do? I choose to live a healthy lifestyle and recycle and use vinegar but who am I to tell you that you HAVE to do that too? You let the government take over one aspect of your life, and soon it will be another and another. I know this based on life experiences of my mother and her family that had to escape from Stalin and my husband who escaped from Cuba.
The forcing of this green thing is going to cause some of the worst poverty ever imagined because poor people will not be able to afford the changes. Most the state of Kentucky will be devastated if Al Gore gets his way about coal.
Common sense, yes, but going overboard, no. Katerina
Hi Christa -- Well said, I totally agree with you.
I love how religious people can use it rationalize anything they need to. Like "God is smart and so we shouldnt worry about global warming."
so to to the people that call global warming a hoax.... You really think that this is some kind of vast left wing conspiracy to drain you of your all mighty dollar? The right can justify anything if it saves them a dime.
nice points - if everyone does just a little bit - it will make a huge difference
I can relate to the Skiing and fear of shorter Winters. Something is happening and it's not good. I bought new skis on Thanksgiving and still haven't been able to use them here in Utah and I live 20 minutes from 3 huge ski resorts.
If something doesn't change than Skiing will be something I tell my grandkids about vs. showing them what it's about.
Great post Christa. Tough to believe how many people still have blinders on relative to what's happening to our planet, and how this will effect so many globally. There is so much science out there relative to the impact of global warming, yet there still remain those who only want to see a small slice of information and call it the "truth" on the issue.
Referring to members of our government as "fascists" is really extreme and irresponsible and inciteful. I suggest that these people take a basic 101 class on fascism. I, for one, am so sick and tired of people who speak in this manner, and use "God" in the same breath.
Renee- And those who keep their heads in the sand will wake up one day to a great loss of liberties, as the rest of us keep fighting to keep our liberties. Those who don't believe as you do, do not have blinders on. We are looking at different data than you. We are listening to the other thousands of scientists that you are not listening to. Your blinders statement cuts both ways. You say there is "so much science out there relative to the impact of global warming"- what science are you referring to? The misinformation from Al Gore? I have lists and lists of published scientists who say there is no global warming but there is climate change but it is not caused by humans. It is the natural weather cycles that have happened all throughout the history of the earth. Man was not the cause of the ice age.
Read my comment again because you read it wrong based on your comment. Fascism- what is irresponsible of stating the definition of big business sleeping in bed with big government- big business getting legislation passed in order for them to profit without the consent of the people- the banks holding the congress and Americans hostage for their profits- how is that NOT fascism? That certainly is not capitalism or a republic, it is certainly not socialism or a democracy. So what else would you call it. I have taken the 101 course on fascism. And I have the history to back it up, I have the facts to back it up and I have the experience of my family to back it up. Katerina
Reverse Mortgage- How do you know I am right wing? You don't even know me! How do you make an assumption like that? Just because I don't agree with global warming! Sorry to break it to you but the Republicans in congress are just as guilty about this scam as the left is. John McCain if for cap and trade- they all sleep in bed with the same big corporations. No, it is more than just taking away our money- they are rich enough, it is about control.
And you did not read my comment in its entirety or else you would not make such a comment about God that you did. My comment specifically stated that we need to respect God's earth and take care of it. I just said, that man is so arrogant to think he is mightier than God. Katerina
Building green practices are very important yet I really wonder if this ever changing world we are in can be salvaged from our abuses. I have watched shows that say that global warming took place in the past and without man, so hoax or no hoax, we all still should do our part.
My biggest concern is I went into a Garden Ridge last week and it was as large as a super Wal-Mart. Could I find an American product... 20 minutes of looking and found one. Americans and America needs to wake up or it won't be Global Warming that gets us but being servants to the largest polluters in the world.
It seems impossible to me to think that human activities have NOT had an effect on climate, considering that there are something like 6.8 billion of us on earth and more arriving all the time. And in the industrialized countries, our effect on everything else in nature is painfully obvious. Why is climate magically immune to what humans do?
We've been recycling, reusing, etc., since the 1970s. Most weeks, we send about half of one small trash can to the dump...everything else is in the green barrel or the recycling barrel. We drive a Prius, walk or carpool whenever we can, etc. I've had a good science education and understand the effects of sunspots, climate cycles, etc., on the earth...but as I said before it is impossible to believe that billions of people and all their activities have not had an effect (99% detrimental) on the earth and its climate.
Very well said - it's nice to know others are on the right path as well.