Just read an MSNBC study article, According to a recent NASA study, it’s only going to take just a little bit more before all of the Carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases emitted by humans have the West Antarctic and and Arctic sea’s ice. Sure, it’s not the first time we’ve heard spooky news but enough is enough. Nothing but bad news for Linux loving penguin lover’s lately it would seem. The United States of America (where I’ve been 99.9999999 percent of my life) is largely responsible for this problem, along with globalization, our culture in general, and not to mention China and Russia and Western Europe.
That’s right, humans it seems are a infectious disease that just won’t give the earth a break. I want to think about the problem pragmatically though. First, here States all we do is bitch about the price of gas, and then we go out and by an SUV.
That doesn’t make us complete idiots though, the reason we want an SUV is so someone else’s SUV doesn’t roll over our children killing everyone and making orphans all over the place. So there is a legitimate safety concern especially outside areas like the earth friendly sections of the great Northwest, the Valley, and other areas with high concentrations of wealthy and educated people.
So how do we fix it?
1. Start giving tax breaks to companies who encourage employees work from home at least 3 days a week.
2. Create heavy regulation in our auto sector. Make the average weight of an automobile sold go down by 25 pounds a year for the next 100 years.
3. Put more funding into alternative fuel, (I love the BMW Hydrogen) start funds which put solar lamps in the homes (government Funded Housing) Start educating consumers that these lamps are cheap, available and are starting to appear in more stores. How about a one solar cell lamp per child? Think of the benefits on a mass scale if we could get a big purchasing power type fund going.
4. Find out who on the planet is not recycling 100 percent of their garbage and have them hung slowly. In this day and age recycling is every bit as important as saving on energy.
5. Start forcing energy companies to invest heavily into alternative fuels and clean energy income sources. If we can’t do that, let’s get Bush out of office so that we can. This can’t wait until 2008, we need major energy reform, now, all across the globe. We need more people speaking out right now who are not afraid to isolate their viewers so that they can get their point across.
6. Encourage donating to alternative energy funds. Every last bit helps.
I’m tired of reading these reports, I’m tired of hearing people argue about them, and I’m tired of watching this great phenomenon called Earth go to waist. Now people from NASA are saying that if things keep going how they are, we WILL start seeing major regional disasters. Let’s be smart for once. This is so much cheaper than what it takes to rebuild cities.
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