It was hoped in the past there would be laws and regulations in place that required mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases that were put into the atmosphere. The Kyoto Protocol would have seen to this, but the U.S. rejected it. It still remains to be seen whether Obama's Administration will make renewable energy a real possibility and lower the number of greenhouse gases that are put into the environment.
Regulating greenhouse gases does not guarantee that climate change will stop or be reversed, but these kinds of gases are not good for people anyway, so there is nothing wrong with regulating them. However, the rising sea levels and rising temperatures could be cyclical and not really related to greenhouse gases or anything else that humans are doing. If that is the case, regulating the greenhouse gases and...
Getting too worried about this and trying to make too many changes is not going to fix things overnight, and it may not fix things at all. Waiting and seeing is a much better idea.
I, personally, am not interested in changing the way I do things, like riding a bicycle instead of driving a
car. I do not feel it will make a difference, and there are not enough people interested in doing these kinds of things to have an effect, even if it would matter to the environment. No matter what humans do or have done throughout
history, the
climate has changed. It gets warmer and colder, and there is no proof of anything specific causing it. While scientists have said it is caused by people, other scientists say this is not the case. Without proof, it becomes very difficult to say that I must do something to save the planet. What am I saving it from? Will it work? Will others help? Until more is known about the true causes of global warming, I plan to wait and see. It is the best and most common-sense approach.
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