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[QUOTE=kennyc;1214743]What can YOU do about it? Dump your SUV, get gas efficient car, ride a bike or the bus...
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Dropping the SUV isn't going to help global warming! It might make petroleum last longer, but there aren't enough SUV's in the world to make ANY sort of difference in GW. The numbers just don't add up.
The Chinese have been riding bicycles for years which is more polluted Beijing or L.A.? Furthermore, the Chinese are abandoning bicycles in droves in favor of automobiles. Need I remind you that a Chinese company has purchased the manufacturing rights to civilian Humvees?
The Kyoto accords were more an attempt to limit the economic activity of the West and did nothing to limit the growth of the middle class in China and India.
If Global Warming IS a serious threat to the world, it is the middle class that is at fault. It is the desire for a comfortable life that will be our downfall. And you can't stop the desire to improve our circumstances.
Maybe anyone who owns an eBook reader should be stood against a wall and shot. Not because an ebook reader is ecologically unsound, but because owning a reader is an indication that they have the ability to buy Chinese made products and that means they are encouraging the Chinese to aspire to a better life by driving an automobile.
Maybe Jihadists have the right idea! Take the world back to the 11th century! Un-needed people will die off and all we will need to fear then is the wrath of God!
Serious, EFFECTIVE solutions, that don't take the world back to universal poverty have NOT been put forth!
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