Has anyone watched "An Inconvenient Truth"?

[Paul in NZ]

Good point Paul, but an even better point would be each of us trying to tell that to a couple of hundred thousand Chinese or Indians who want their turn at becominmg a developed nation and want the same environmental restictions (ie none) that the developed world had when they were at that stage of development.

Whatever we do is miniscule compared to these future superpowers.

You don't think that the problem might be that there are too many people on this planet do you ? (And no I'm not a fascist, left wing or otherwise, advocating death squads.)

I was merely stating the obvious.

So we blame the other guy and do nothing?

[kyleN20]

isnt there a super volcano under yosemity?

[dennyg]

Yeah we can get too serious about stuff. Everyone has an opinion. These forums are for cars right? Its mucho stuff...screw the tree huggers the liberal types. They are just whiners and malcontents..........Gee let me see.....smoking is bad for ones health. Unleaded gas is better for air then leaded. Seat belts and air bags do save lives. Rush Limbaugh is just a drug induced air bag.....And you guys in Nz drive on the left......what kind of communism is that?

[CharlesAFerg]

lets quit the personal attacks and stay on topic, none of the attacks are very impressing so far. Now if UKM5ish was on then Id be busy deleting shyt lol. Cmon guys, I only posted this cause I didnt believe in global warming, not to have you guys fist fight over oppinions.

That was my point, lol read my previous post before that hahahaha
It's so silly.

I get 15.6 mpg! What about you guys? :-D lol
Awful!
.Charles

[632 Regal]

i get 14-18 so thats better than my truck at 12-15

That was my point, lol read my previous post before that hahahaha
It's so silly.

I get 15.6 mpg! What about you guys? :-D lol
Awful!
.Charles

[Zeuk in Oz]

So we blame the other guy and do nothing?

Not at all Paul, you missed my point, perhaps.

I was just saying that we can get all orgasmic about our own righteousness, but at the end of the day the irony is that it is more important what is happening half a world away where we have no influence.

It is really a very just end to our collective wastefulness.

All we need now is for the "developed" countries to try to tell the developing countries that each person can't have their own car like we have, and we will see armageddon sooner than we had thought.

[danielhstout]

I'm not trying to pick personal battles... All I know is what I have read. I haven't even seen this movie and I don't plan to because I have already done the research. Al Gore's movie may be political propaganda but in my eyes it is a good way to promote awareness. I believe that global warming is real... all the scientific evidence is in order.

The United States needs to set a standard for the rest of the world. After all we are the majority of the problem. (Plus, if other countries don't cooperate we can always just start a war with them j/k) Doing nothing is not going to help the situation.

Real or not, one thing we are sure of is that our actions do have a negative effect on our environment. So why not take the necessary steps in the right direction? MONEY! That’s why... Well if you want to use the global economy as a scapegoat you first have to realize that technological development is what drives capitalism.

We have been relying on fossil fuels for too long now; it is obviously outdated technology... Isn't it time for something better, something renewable, something cleaner and something that could spark an even greater economic revolution? We have the ability to develop technology that would better our earth/civilization and bring in revenue at the same time. Everybody wins...the conservative money grubbers and the whinney liberals.

We have the technological ability to develop ethanol into an ideal and still powerful fuel... Think of the impacts on agriculture... It would flourish worldwide... Having a positive effect on poverty and world hunger while at the same time being better for our environment. There are many other earth friendly energy sources out there besides ethanol too; it just takes our effort to develop them.

The sad thing is that it is the rich corporate power mongers that control the revenue that can produce this new technology. Yet, most of them don't see it as in their own interests to do so.

I could go on for days about all of this but I am not going to change many minds... People need to become educated and that is the bottom line.

Realize that we have the ability to make things better than they are now. There are no losers, just a better richer and more developed civilization, not to mention preserving the earth in its more natural state for generations to come. The end of the world? Maybe not, but there is definitely some more bad **** to come if we do not change our attitudes towards our planet.

[Jon K]

We have been relying on fossil fuels for too long now; it is obviously outdated technology... Isn't it time for something better, something renewable, something cleaner and something that could spark an even greater economic revolution?

I hate gasoline, **** this ****! Give me some nutragrain bars and a bottle of LoveFuel

[CharlesAFerg]

I haven't even seen this movie and I don't plan to because I have already done the research.

We have been relying on fossil fuels for too long now; it is obviously outdated technology...

Indeed... "Where I come from we don't need roads..."

I hate gasoline, **** this ****! Give me some nutragrain bars and a bottle of LoveFuel

organic nonetheless.

[BillionPa]

To deny what is happening to our planet is like saying: It wont matter to me, I will be dead when the **** hits the fan.........

actually, i will probably still be alive, i expect the point of no return is in about 2020, and the point where everyone starts freaking out hardcore about 2045