the planet is warming. And most of those believe human activity is at least a part of the cause. A large part.
But, whattaya gonna do about it? Really?
How many good Americans are gonna park their cars and take the bus? Or even buy a smaller car. Hybrids, few as there are compared to pickups, are selling to save gas money, not the planet. We've got some bus service out here, which is more than most of the country has, but the only people who use it are too poor to own a car.
Get rid of your AC, lower the heat, don't buy anything made in factories that use electricity... C'mon-- this is a country that battles Big Gulp bans like it's the end of the world, so asking us to inconvenience ourselves is out of the question. And there are several billion people living in other countries that just don't give a shit at all.
There are solutions being worked on--CO2 and methane digestors that basically suck gases out of the air. If you can't stop people from turning on the AC, then more efficient units. And so on...
But, the really, really scary possibility is that the fresh water from Greenland mixes up the salinity of the Gulf Stream and it flips course, almost immediately causing an ice age on both sides of the North Atlantic. It has happened before, but the human population wasn't near what it is now and could head south. And then there are those Milankovitch cycles...
But, my money's on that bigass volcano under Yellowstone that's overdue for an eruption. That'll wipe out most life in North America and put a huge chill on the rest of the world.
My personal philosophy is to leave the planet slightly better than I found it, to whatever extent I can. It won't make a damn bit of difference unless enough others feel the same way, but it is important to me while I accept whatever fate is in store for the planet.
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