Summer ......
Well, have been out enjoying the summer. I guess for years I was interested in the science behind the change in the environment. As I've mentioned before what is happening now was predicted at the end of the 19th century by British scientists. But now I accept that it's happening and I'm not sure what will have to happen before any real notice is taken of the situation.
It's not a situation that's going to be easy to change. If it was just dealing with environmental change then I guess that we'd all be being encouraged to get out there and really do something. Unfortunately climate change doesn't just stand alone. The factors that are causing it are tied in with the economy and commerce. Even then it's not a situation where big buisness is out there just devastating the earth for pure profit.
The economy provides things like schools, health care and other services, in different variables depending where you live. It also provides the money for security both in a national and a world sense. Countries are afraid of losing their place in the global economy.
On top of that some people don't believe that it's happening. In one country where creationalist doctrines are pushed the feeling is among a lot of people that if it is happening that "God" will save the planet.
....... so, er, carry on destroying it I suppose.
Even if people don't agree with this view having it pushed at you by influential people tends to water down the impact.
I think the only thing that people can do is to talk about things like carbon emissions and the effect they have on the planet and things like that. Explain the simple science. There have been a few variables which made it look as if there was a chance that at one point in the warming procedure that conditions right at the edge of the planet's atmosphere might produce enough of a cooling effect to sort things out to some degree. But there are reasons why this is unlikely to happen and if it did it would be too late anyway.
I think an understanding has to be out there in society but that awareness has to involve the commercial realities and the way they affect society and global connections.
It's not a situation that's going to be easy to change. If it was just dealing with environmental change then I guess that we'd all be being encouraged to get out there and really do something. Unfortunately climate change doesn't just stand alone. The factors that are causing it are tied in with the economy and commerce. Even then it's not a situation where big buisness is out there just devastating the earth for pure profit.
The economy provides things like schools, health care and other services, in different variables depending where you live. It also provides the money for security both in a national and a world sense. Countries are afraid of losing their place in the global economy.
On top of that some people don't believe that it's happening. In one country where creationalist doctrines are pushed the feeling is among a lot of people that if it is happening that "God" will save the planet.
....... so, er, carry on destroying it I suppose.
Even if people don't agree with this view having it pushed at you by influential people tends to water down the impact.
I think the only thing that people can do is to talk about things like carbon emissions and the effect they have on the planet and things like that. Explain the simple science. There have been a few variables which made it look as if there was a chance that at one point in the warming procedure that conditions right at the edge of the planet's atmosphere might produce enough of a cooling effect to sort things out to some degree. But there are reasons why this is unlikely to happen and if it did it would be too late anyway.
I think an understanding has to be out there in society but that awareness has to involve the commercial realities and the way they affect society and global connections.
posted by Zeb at 12:39 PM
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