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Quote by: Pale RIder I agree that we need (no...must) cut back on the pollution. And as our technology imporves, that will happen. The amount of pollution created relative to our industrial output has been declining for decades and it will continue to decline. But technology is where the improvement lies. Environmentalists seem to want to curb the very thing that is best equipped to decrease the amount of pollution that we produce.
I am all for a clean environment but global warming is not something that we can influence. The earth warms and the earth cools. We are on the tail end of an abnormally long cool period in the earth's history. It is time for the earth to warm up and there is nothing we can do to either slow the process down or speed it up. We are just along for the ride. |
We don't know that, what we are seeing at the moment is a correlation between our carbon dioxide emissions and global temperature rise. We know the atmosphere has an equilibrium but what if we can affect that balance? Can we really be sure that the millions of tonnes of CO2 won't make a difference? I believe for something of this scale, prevention is for the best and even if say the Kyoto Treaty won't affect Global Warming.
With regards to our new technology, I know that we've gotten better but that doesn't mean we're immediately using it. Or that people are willing to change; the US car industry is still pushing people to buy large, uneconomic SUVs when there are smaller cars that will suffice.