Discuss: How to Be a Climate Hero

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I thought Audrey’s article was a very good observation of human behaviour.  In fact it made me think of how the human brain (brilliant in so many ways) can easily be brainwashed into believing, unquestioningly, certain beliefs or predictions, especially ones that spell doom for the individual or their environment.
I can think of many such doomsday scenerios that the so-called clever people in our society bought into hook line and sinker:
1. 1970’s: looming Ice Age
2. 1970’s/’80’s: nuclear holocaust
3. 1980’s: AIDS epidemic
4. 1990’s: Y2K computer failure
5. 2000 onwards: SARS, Saddams WMD, Bird Flu and last but not least AGW

A common thread running throughout all the fearmongering, scare predictions was that vested interests gained economically and politically from propogating the ‘scare’.  All were ‘found out’ as no doubt the latest AGW scare will be.

Funny enough China and India are having none of it and in my view will only pay lip service to AGW claims.
Denis Falgout in this thread has laid out an articulate and convincing case that CO2 is not a climate change gas that has any discernable impact on climate change - on that basis (and the observable evidence vs dodgy computer models supports him) the AGW platform collapses and the socialist engineers will have to find a new ‘scare’ via which to attempt to achieve their aims of controlling society.

Have you not heard about the AIDS crisis in Africa? No? I suppose that’s because it was just scaremongering…

With the Olympics starting this Friday nite, I truly believe it will galvanize all who watch it with the vision of the levels of pollution that a country that had little electricity 10 yrs ago now seems to have, having put a coal fired plant on line once a week for some years… This may be our greatest ‘picture speaks a thousand words” opportunity. People have been hearing what to do.. and why.. they just did not think THEY had to do it…

Let’s hope that the visuals really make an impression to move people into action…

Thanks for your great writeup.. succint… moving.... clearly a known effect on folks..We all need snap out of it so we can do what needs to be done…

No future house should be built in the world without solar panels for electricity and water heating.. and lets move on the electric cars that we once had.... Many countries are leading the way… its not that we need to figure out WHAT to do.. we just need to DO it.. and it will take mandating unless we give individuals incentives to buy…

thanks for your article…

sue

yesterday i’m being asked by my english teacher. “ do you care about your environment?” i said of course, i do!!!. but suddently my teacher said. i don’t care about such a thing.. you know what? because I’m old. I’ll die soon, and I have no kids. so the global warming or whatever is called, doesn’t effect me…

nowadays everyone seems more like him :(

Hey, very nice example.  I am one of the ones who is trying to call 9-1-1 and trying to get the conductor at the same time.  But mostly I’m ignored because I’m still a teenager.  Now I heard for an oppertunity from my civics class that I can portray my ideas for my project.  I gladly accepted the offer.  Now, I wish to recieve information on ways I can help.  Please, if you have any information based on global warming and how to stop it, please e-mail me at “blackbird_223@hotmail.com”.  Thank you.

We definitely have to do something ourselves. The most important is to understand what our planet needs, or as I would put it “decentralization” where centralized, inefficient, fuel-defendant production yields to environment-friendly local production that employs people who lose their jobs in failing globalized economy.
I have read about greenhouse farming where a small greenhouse can produce amazing amounts of food in your backyard. I think it was invented by Dutch. The idea behind it is that new technologies and concepts allow a person with no experience to grow his own food right where he or she lives - even in a city.
Yes, we should not be passive bystanders - growing your own vegetables helps this planet as much as getting rid of your car, period. Even if you plant a lemon tree in your apartment and grow lemons you save gas that would have been spent to bring those lemons to your supermarket from Brazil for instance.
This is perfectly true - we have to do something. Immediately.

Hi.  I wrote two songs on Global Warming, but I’m having trouble publishing them. If you by any chance have any clue how to publish anywhere, please inform me from my e-mail, .  If you just want to read the songs, e-mail me as well and I’ll send you them back as a reply.  I don’t mind sharing my work with others because it is something we all need to do: TAKE ACTION!