Can I Do It?
-Sam Fahnrich
Alright guys, this is it! I could go into detail about how to run your life. You'd call me an imperialistic Republican, followed by an arrangement of four or more letters, and you'd be on your way to tell someone something about Bush. However, if I tell you how to run your life in the name of global warming, you'd call me a heroic Democrat.
For the sake of primaries this season, I'll be a Democrat. Here's my quick version of one of the articles I read so we can get to the good stuff.
There was a convention in New York City, and at this meeting there was an in depth debate of the severity of Global Warming. The two opposing sides were arguing over when official disaster would occur. Official in the terms of hearing 'Oh crap' on every form of media just before "The Day After Tomorrow" actually happens. Although the names are important, their roles are more significant. This is what you need to know- a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the novelist and movie maker of, State of Fear. These guys are debating against a scientist from NASA, a climatologist professor from the University of California, San Diego, and another guy from a private group called the Union of Concerned Scientists. Here's a glimpse as to how scientific they were, they began by discussing what made Global Warming a "crisis".
Here's what the two sides argued, Team A- "Every day 30,000 people on this planet die of the diseases of poverty," he tells the crowd. "A third of the planet doesn’t have electricity. We have a billion people with no clean water. We have half a billion people going to bed hungry every night. Do we care about this? It seems that we don’t. It seems that we would rather look a hundred years into the future than pay attention to what’s going on now." (That was straight from the article). Team B- Global Warming can potentially kill everyone and everything if temperatures continue to rise, now is the time to act, not once every other problem is solved. (I paraphrased).
Then comes possible ways Global Warming will kill us. Uh-hmm. Warmer waters would mean more occurrences and strength of hurricanes. However, higher temperatures would create wind streams that would dissipate the hurricanes. Choices...
I'm over my allowance of words so I'll end here. With a 'chopped' quote from a climatologist professor of Stanford, "How many of you have had a serious fire in your home?", "How many of you buy fire insurance?" The insurance part is what scientists want to do for Global Warming. Say they warned us and then deny us our money when it happens. 'Read the fine print!' -H. Katrina-
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/global_meltdown.html
1 comment:
I enjoyed that last quote a lot. It makes a lot of sense that they want to cover their asses. But both sides do have a point. There is a lot of poverty in the world that has to be helped, but if we all die from global warming whats the difference if we are millionaires or homeless. I feel that global warming issues are two groups responsibilities. First it is every persons reasponsibility to do all they can in everyday life to recycle, reduce driving as much as possible, save water, etc. The other angle is the gov't job to enforce industry polution in all aspects. It should be strictly enforced that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Not just for companies, but townships and cities being industries also. This is the longests problem other than hunger we will face. And it seems like everyone wants someone else to solve global warming when its everyones responsibility to do all the little things they can
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