I am constantly and consistently amazed at how frightened people can become over global warming. To me, there are two ways to look at it. You can look at it either from the environments perspective and ours....
You're just talking about the rising temperatures. But what you completly forget are the consequences. Global warming isn't only about higher temerpatures, but also about rising sea levels, more storms, changing streams in the seas, more extreme weather conditions.
The tragediy (or unfainess) is that most people who are affected by these consequences are not responsible for the global warming, because they live in poor countries.
So what the industrial countries (and very especially the USA as they consumption one quater of the worlds enery use) are doing is living on the costs of the not so developed countries. But what gives us the right to do so?
If every man in any country would have the same enery-wasting life like the people eg. in America or in Europe, our planet would soon be very uncomfortable.
It is possible to life a comfort live without wasting too much energy. There are fascinating new technologies and lots of possiblities to save energy. It is our duty to use them, for the sake of the coming generations and the developing countries!
I'm still using an old centronics printer cable which I've bought for my first computer, a
Schneider CPC6128 (originally sold by Amstrad) and a dot-matrix printer back in 1987.
Now it's connecting my 1GHz celeron (running linux) with a Brother laser printer, and it's still working fine!
I can't agree with your view of nuclear power. You say Chernobyl was a drawback of communism, but what's about Harrisburg? We have to accept that man tends to make failures - no nuclear power plant will ever be 100% save. And there are big problems with the nuclear waste.
The most effective power-source for the future, execpt regenerative energy (like sun- and wind-power, among others) is engergy-saving. Especially for the USA, which is known to be very ineffective in these things (just take the gas-usage of the cars), but also in Europe. Isolation of old buildings is a good way to start...
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You're just talking about the rising temperatures. But what you completly forget are the consequences. Global warming isn't only about higher temerpatures, but also about rising sea levels, more storms, changing streams in the seas, more extreme weather conditions.
The tragediy (or unfainess) is that most people who are affected by these consequences are not responsible for the global warming, because they live in poor countries.
So what the industrial countries (and very especially the USA as they consumption one quater of the worlds enery use) are doing is living on the costs of the not so developed countries. But what gives us the right to do so?
If every man in any country would have the same enery-wasting life like the people eg. in America or in Europe, our planet would soon be very uncomfortable.
It is possible to life a comfort live without wasting too much energy. There are fascinating new technologies and lots of possiblities to save energy. It is our duty to use them, for the sake of the coming generations and the developing countries!
Now it's connecting my 1GHz celeron (running linux) with a Brother laser printer, and it's still working fine!
The most effective power-source for the future, execpt regenerative energy (like sun- and wind-power, among others) is engergy-saving. Especially for the USA, which is known to be very ineffective in these things (just take the gas-usage of the cars), but also in Europe. Isolation of old buildings is a good way to start ...