Its all over the news and you have heard the arguments time and time again in regards to global warming. What would our future would be like if there was a consensus on this issue. What would happen if the argument continued for another 30 years. The answer seems so evident, but I believe the masses are more afraid of the implications that has on there future, or worse yet, what it says about the legacy the elders are leaving behind.
To me it seems like a politics as usual. Have climate summits for the purpose of putting on a good show for the citizens, while having a laissez-faire attitude for big business. While leading climatologists contend that man is the main contributor to the green house effect (global warming), scientists that are funded by the energy companies argue that it pseudoscience. Though this certainly is no surprise. Big oil must remain otherwise lobbyists might be out of a job.
Ask around, and many would consider that global warming as part of a marketing scheme, another reason to raise taxes, label you a treehugger, or repeat the rhetoric that heard in media.
“Hell, if our way of doing things all these years were wrong, well then I do not want to be right!”
What I believe people are really saying when they say that its hogwash is that he/she does not know how to fix it, or do not know how to make a big impact on my own.
Lets face it, Mother Earth, a magazine from the 70′s has been talking about this very same issue back then and 40 years later the argument continues. Since the its start many media companies wrote about and profited off of it, as did product manufacturers, inventors, and even scam artists. While we all start out with good intentions, serious investment in time and energy, whatever they entity, at one point or another, has to make a profit.
Unfortunately, most all of these inventions are not rational and do not make fiscal sense for the masses. Why, because energy from coal, gas, and oil are just too cheap. What if the gallon of gas was still above 5 dollars, how many people in your family would own a Toyota Prius, VW Diesel, and the like. How many car companies would have had better gas mileage than they currently have. How quickly would you have traded in your SUV?
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