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Originally Posted by irishgrl
What about solar power? or wind power? or water power? What about mass transit instead of individual cars? Nuclear power is clean but the materials used to make it are toxic and there is no safe place to store the waste.
Bush has consistently eroded the environmental protections and safeguards, and allows older factories to continue spewing crap into the air/water and not force them to upgrade to acceptable levels of filtering. WTF?
And whether you agree or not, it is a FACT that Americans are primarily responsible for the sorry state of the global condition by our rampant consumption and vehicle use. I will say that China looks to surpass us in a very short while, but WE are responsible for the depletion of resources because we are a greedy nation of "right now" consumers, we do everything on a large scale, and the entire world pays the price. I personally think we do need to own up to our global responsibility and make a nation-wide change. We could start with our factories, and our car manufacturers and all plant a tree  |
Good points.
And this point may sound trivial, but it did pop up in my mind just now...
It is obvious that the Earth has had massive global warming ( and cooling ) before right?
About 1 000 000 years ago the Earth had a massive Ice Age that caused much of North America and Europe to be under hundreds to thousands of feet of glacial ice. Eventually the glaciers receded.
Was that due to SUV's as well ?
I don't know? Just a little thought. "Global Warming" issues are not my "Affirmative Action".