President Obama Options

[Inferia]

In case anyone missed yesterday, we have a new president now.

www.nytimes.com
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[woody]

Well, the government probably can't directly tell you not to drive SUV, chances are they won't since it's not practical. What government can do are through other policies like emission standards, factory CO2 output, and cleaner/alternative fuel which I believe is the right way to go especially if you have trusted advisers who are in-the-know for this area. I think it's great that you recycle and compost (if I had a back yard I'd compost too), but unless there's a change in public attitude it's very hard to get enough people to recycle to make a difference. I live in a fairly liberal town where people practically can recycle everything they own, but even here it's hard to do. Plus you don't really know what you're doing is actually for the better for the worse. You might think that canvas bags are better than plastic bags, but what makes it true besides a gut feeling? What the energy and CO2 emission cost for 1 canvas bag is the same as 10,000 plastic bags? What if you own 5 canvas bags? What if you recycle plastic bags (which I don't know why people don't insist you recycle them since they're pretty easy to melt down and re-extrude). I personally don't know these things if someone doesn't tell me.

Well, from what I hear from people who are involved with climate research, they truly believe what we're doing is killing the planet. I think their frustration mostly reside in people's lack of information on this subject. Granted, I don't really think any average joes out there is gonna pick up a Science paper and read about the CO2 levels in melting north atlantic ice capsules, chances are I won't either. And they sit in seminar after seminar listening about new findings in climate change research that it is dramatically changing the environment on this earth, to only have people who know not a whole lot of about climate claim that they're leftist and that what they believe in is bullshit. I can understand their frustration. If people who don't know much about my research and told me that it's not real, I'd be very frustrated too. Anyway, that's beside the point.

BTW (aww)

All this is more the reason to not care & pass it to future generations.