The world is getting hotter. Everyone on the planet needs to change their lifestyle or we're all doomed, DOOMED I tell you!
Okay let's see here...
I already:- Recycle meticulously.
- Use energy-efficient lighting.
- Have water-saving devices installed throughout my home and rental property.
- Moved my entire working life to a home-based business model over 16 years ago, thus I drive my car about 1/10 of most job-working slaves. (if not less)
- Have sunk tens of thousands of dollars into insulating my home and rental property, thus saving on natural gas and electricity use.
- Bought and use reusable shopping bags for groceries, etc.
- Turn things off when not in use (computer, lights, tv, etc)
- Haven't taken newspaper delivery for 20+ years. (GFY is all the news I need)
- Don't use bottled water. I had a reverse osmosis system installed over 12 years ago.
So my question is; what the fucking fuck else do you want from me?? My "carbon footprint" is now the size of my fucking baby toenail already. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. The green changes I've made have not been a hardship on me, and in fact do save me thousands of $'s every year.
I should also mention here, from where I sit, the planet is getting COLDER not hotter. Last winter was the coldest winter Manitoba has seen in anywhere from 50 to 150 years depending on which expert you ask. It was certainly the coldest that I can recall in at least 40 years, maybe longer. Plus, this summer has been short, having started late, having had a lot of cool rainy days, only a few weeks of relatively hot sunny days, and now as of September I actually had to turn the heat on already.
So don't take this as a slight but please don't talk to me anymore about this so-called warming trend supposedly going on. I have yet to see it where I am. We've had some pretty mild winters in the past, and some nice long and hot summers. But they're getting scarcer and scarcer.
I'd still rather face a Manitoba winter than move south where it's "warmer" and then face your hurricanes, tornadoes, earth tremors, supervolcanoes, oil spills, etc etc ET-CETERA. :D
There was a frost warning here last night, so just shut it about global warming already.