Comments on: Thoughts on Global Warming http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/ Nourishment and inspiration for those who love the Earth Fri, 18 May 2012 23:40:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Aliki http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1255 Aliki Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:05:45 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1255 Hi April....you are so right in everything you say. It is indeed difficult not to be gloomy. You just want to shake people into realization sometimes. I think one of the main reasons that people dont take global warming seriously is because then they would have to do something to change their lifestyles in order not to be hypocrites. I know many people that believe it is real but would rather be complacent and complicit than give up their their plastic world. I have been living green (as they now call it) since my 20 year old was in cloth diapers and I am amazed at how slowly things have progressed. People are strange animals. Hi April….you are so right in everything you say. It is indeed difficult not to be gloomy. You just want to shake people into realization sometimes. I think one of the main reasons that people dont take global warming seriously is because then they would have to do something to change their lifestyles in order not to be hypocrites. I know many people that believe it is real but would rather be complacent and complicit than give up their their plastic world. I have been living green (as they now call it) since my 20 year old was in cloth diapers and I am amazed at how slowly things have progressed. People are strange animals.

]]> By: Judy http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 Judy Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:48:27 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1214 April, I think you have explored this issue more clearly than anything I have read. This would be an excellent Op-Ed piece. I hope you will consider submitting it to newspapers or magazines for wider publication. April, I think you have explored this issue more clearly than anything I have read. This would be an excellent Op-Ed piece. I hope you will consider submitting it to newspapers or magazines for wider publication.

]]> By: Todd Waymon http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1213 Todd Waymon Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:12:56 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1213 What makes me most gloomy - and most angry - is knowing that there are some powerful corporate forces who deny that they are at all responsible for climate change, yet who are in fact planning how to further profit from it. Google "profit from climate change". Makes me ill. What makes me most gloomy - and most angry - is knowing that there are some powerful corporate forces who deny that they are at all responsible for climate change, yet who are in fact planning how to further profit from it. Google “profit from climate change”. Makes me ill.

]]> By: Kathy Ferger http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1212 Kathy Ferger Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:16:28 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1212 Two excellent sources for further educating ourselves on all the changes associated with global warming came to my attention recently. One is "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" by Lester Brown. It is a powerful summary of both the challenges we face and the technologically and financially realistic things societies can do to change our whole way of living on earth (if only we can muster the political will to do it). The other is Al Gore's new book, "Our Choice." I wanted to go hear him speak on this book, but the event at Lisner Auditorium in DC sold out several days ahead of the event! Maybe that level of interest should encourage us. Gore was on NPR All Things Considered tonight, but I also missed most of that. It is difficult to know why the people of the USA are so unconcerned about global warming. I think your ideas are correct. But I don't think this is the first time in history that a society has ignored warning signs of ecological crisis. Isn't that the thesis of Jared Diamond's book, "Collapse"? I think human behavior has tremendous inertia. To be honest, though I profess great concern about global warming, the changes I have made in my life are not radical. I like to think that my relatively painless changes such as using CFC bulbs, minimizing my use of plastic bags, keeping the thermostat at 65....are enough personally, and that the significant changes have to come on a large-scale: transit systems, renewable energy, carbon taxes. Living in DC, I don't even have representatives in Congress to keep pressuring on these issues. So if I can't get myself to do more profound things on this issue, it shouldn't surprise me that others are unconcerned. There is a lot of misinformation out there, and until a year ago Bush et al. were trivializing the threat. We can't let ourselves get too discouraged. Like you, I admire and applaud the actions spearheaded by 350 on Oct. 24. We need more of that creativity and activism. Kathy F Two excellent sources for further educating ourselves on all the changes associated with global warming came to my attention recently. One is “Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization” by Lester Brown. It is a powerful summary of both the challenges we face and the technologically and financially realistic things societies can do to change our whole way of living on earth (if only we can muster the political will to do it).
The other is Al Gore’s new book, “Our Choice.” I wanted to go hear him speak on this book, but the event at Lisner Auditorium in DC sold out several days ahead of the event! Maybe that level of interest should encourage us. Gore was on NPR All Things Considered tonight, but I also missed most of that.
It is difficult to know why the people of the USA are so unconcerned about global warming. I think your ideas are correct. But I don’t think this is the first time in history that a society has ignored warning signs of ecological crisis. Isn’t that the thesis of Jared Diamond’s book, “Collapse”?
I think human behavior has tremendous inertia. To be honest, though I profess great concern about global warming, the changes I have made in my life are not radical. I like to think that my relatively painless changes such as using CFC bulbs, minimizing my use of plastic bags, keeping the thermostat at 65….are enough personally, and that the significant changes have to come on a large-scale: transit systems, renewable energy, carbon taxes. Living in DC, I don’t even have representatives in Congress to keep pressuring on these issues. So if I can’t get myself to do more profound things on this issue, it shouldn’t surprise me that others are unconcerned. There is a lot of misinformation out there, and until a year ago Bush et al. were trivializing the threat. We can’t let ourselves get too discouraged. Like you, I admire and applaud the actions spearheaded by 350 on Oct. 24. We need more of that creativity and activism.
Kathy F

]]> By: tim wagner http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1211 tim wagner Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:52:15 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1211 very well said april contactcaav@gmail.com this link will connect you with the "climate action alliance of the valley "- some very sincere folks trying to make a difference(caav) cathy strickler is the contact person I vacillate between "the earth is just doing it's thing " to " god, the atmosphere sure is dirty at 30,000 feet". I truly believe that somewhere in between is the real answer- we may be speeding up the next non-ice age. We are a very dirty civilization! tim wagner very well said april
contactcaav@gmail.com this link will connect you with the “climate action alliance of the valley “- some very sincere folks trying to make a difference(caav) cathy strickler is the contact person

I vacillate between “the earth is just doing it’s thing ” to ” god, the atmosphere sure is dirty at 30,000 feet”. I truly believe that somewhere in between is the real answer- we may be speeding up the next non-ice age. We are a very dirty civilization!
tim wagner

]]> By: Joan Brundage http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2009/11/thoughts-on-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-1210 Joan Brundage Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:07:45 +0000 http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/?p=1669#comment-1210 Your article is right on, April! Thanks! I am passing this on to friends who need their eyes opened!! Your article is right on, April! Thanks! I am passing this on to friends who need their eyes opened!!

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