Originally Posted by LadyMischief

Apparently you didn't read the posts I made that pollution WAS bad. you make a lot of broad assumptions here for someone who hasn't brought more than their own opinion to the arguement. The fact is pollution IS bad, I would love to see people stop polluting the plant, killing off animal species, creating ocean dead zones, land dead zones, and making people sick with all the crap that's out there. MY point is that global warming is a natural process, it will happen regardless of if we are contributing or not. These government officials would be far better off trying to tackle the problem on realistic grounds, instead of simply trying to frighten people with propeganda.

Wouldn't it be refreshing if they said "Ok, global warming is a fact, we are making the problem somewhat worse, but we can't stop the process. Let's do what we can to reduce pollution so that the world can live in relative better health, and let's start planning for the future that science and simple geological historical fact tells us is coming, and work together towards that goal". Not the fear-mongering and extremist stuff happening now. For all the people trumpeting the cause of stopping humans contribution to greenhouse gasses, I would think their time would be better spent on finding ways to educate the masses in GENERAL on the little things they can do every day to contribute in a positive way to the world pollution problem. And it goes a lot further than not driving vehicles powered by fossel fuels... there are lot of changes people can make in simple relative terms that would make a huge difference in the world. But it will never come to that.. People are inherantly lazy, and they expect the government to fix it for them. There's no "fix" to this problem, only things that you or I or everyone can do to try to help make it better for our kids. I wonder how much the UN spent to put out their global climate report.. and how much better that money could have been spent on simply educating people about the truth, instead of causing global panic and a huge "emergency" that has no fix in the forseeable future.