| Global Warming. What comes to mind? Scam, fraud, | | | | make and theirs only about 60 years of easy oil left |
| Control, New World Order! | | | | to be pumped out. This fact should be enough |
| These are the first things to come to my mind. I | | | | reason to start looking for alternative energy, Global |
| guess the biggest problem I have is the fact that the | | | | warming or not. |
| Earth has always been changing, deserts were once | | | | As our population grows from 6.8 Billion to 9 billion |
| oceans, dinosaurs once roamed the Earth, the Mighty | | | | and beyond the strain we put on the planet will be |
| Colorado river was once well.... mighty. Our Earth has | | | | more apparent, greater sensitivity to the eco-system |
| been warming ever since the end of last Ice age, I | | | | will be needed in the near future. Our homes is the |
| don't think anyone will dispute that, the argument is | | | | single best way to reverse our impact on the planet. |
| whether or not Humans have played a significant part | | | | I see a future where each home produces enough |
| in that trend. | | | | energy to sustain itself and is no longer dependent |
| I think this argument misses the point. The point of | | | | on a grid infrastructure. Isn't this a good thing to |
| conservation should be for conservation's sake, Why | | | | have? Global warming or not? Who doesn't want to |
| must people be facing destruction before we do | | | | be independent? Americans.... that's who. We |
| anything about cleaning our environment? Isn't less | | | | Americans will always want some one else to do |
| pollution for less pollution's sake good enough? | | | | things for us, We want to simplify our lives as often |
| shouldn't we try to recycle our waste and reuse | | | | as possible, what's easier than having automatic bill |
| materials like plastics and metals instead of simply | | | | pay? |
| burying them underground? Doesn't it make more | | | | Convenience and the American way of life is the |
| sense to scrap an old car melt down the steel & | | | | single biggest hurdle we have when confronting the |
| plastics than to simply mine for new resources? | | | | problems to our Environment, there is no a question |
| Better Gas Milage, Higher efficiency on our appliances, | | | | whether or not we have an impact on our planet, |
| better insulation in our homes... who can possibly be | | | | because; of course we do! The REAL debate in this |
| against all this? Americans... that's who, We Americans | | | | country is whether or not someone can come up |
| don't like to be told what to do, we want to drive | | | | with a way to make these conservation methods |
| what we want to drive, end of story. Our perception | | | | easy. Until that happens we will continue to |
| of freedom needs to be tempered by the bitter | | | | conveniently deny that we have anything to do with |
| reality, which is the Earth cannot maintain a supply of | | | | Climate Change. |
| all the resources we consume. Crude Oil is not a | | | | Convenience, it's what we Americans are good at. |
| renewable resource... it takes millions of years to | | | | |