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Originally Posted by Rocketsci4
It's so easy to do what you guys do. Just call someone a liberal and other names. Then disparage the science with half truths, It doesn't take a genius for anyone to realize that we are dumping millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere while at the same time we are destroying the very things that can balance that out -- things like the rain forest in Brazil.
It is easier to calll someone a tree hugger or whatever than it is to admit the need for change. Conservation iyt isn't easy it's difficult and damned inconvenient. Meanwwhile we burn fossil fuels blindly, not only feeding CO2 into the atmosphere but paying for both ends of the war on terror.
Instead of looking at alternative energy as a problem let's look at it as an opportunity -- an opportunity for the US top create new technologies and new industries and jobs here in the US.
I'm a member of the baby boomer generation and I fear that we will be the first American generation in which the succeeding generations -- my kids and grandkids-- will not have it better than I did. I fear for them and I fear our future because we have closed our minds and decided that driving our SUVs and trucks are more important than our kids' and grandkids' future.
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Sir,
1. No one can prove man-made CO2 in the atmosphere causes the warming trend. What we have here is a correlation. No one can say for sure which causes which.
2. Give a practical way for the world to reduce energy consumption and we'll do it. As of now, the TREEHUGGERS just want us to reduce our demand and/or buy this bullcrap carbon credit that Rev. Al sells. The US can stop using energy tomorrow and the rest of the world will happily take over our place.
3. Look at it this way. Why is Rev. Al so adament on pushing this agenda? The left is quick to find conspiracies in the 9-11 attack to Bush's invasion of Iraq to big oil funding bogus scientific studies debunking the global warming myth. Yet they never look at what Al is trying to sell here. He's creating a market for his carbon credit company by scaring people to death.
If you are so concerned, then do your part by driving a small car, switch to florecent bulbs, and recycle where you can. No need to buy carbon credit or jump on a soap box with a megaphone screaming about the end of the world. Just do that and I promise you in 30 years we'll be worried about the next ice age.