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Global warming changes bad for the US? |
How can instituting any of the following changes possibly adversely effect the US? Reduce oil and fuel consumption in our homes and cars. Reduce traffic on the road by car pooling. Reduce cars on the road by replacing them with bikes and scooters. Recycle everything that can be. Use less energy in our homes, lights, electronics. Waste less water, plant more natural ground cover (strawberries for example) instead of grass. Stop cutting down forests and instead create tree farms. Restore old lands and structures instead of developing new ones. Lessen the urban sprawl and build higher structures. Eliminate inefficient street lighting and install efficient and subdued street lighting (hooded, pointing toward the ground) Plant and harvest our own gardens and crops. Establish more preserved wildlife parks (widen boundaries and create new ones). Create incentives for every home to use Solar energy and wind power. *I want honest and thought out answers* - Do not troll. I totally agree with you. There is no way that conserving and reducing waste can possibly be bad for the Earth, living creatures and plants. I would say that the government should require businesses that have parking lots to build garages if they will have more than one hundred cars parked in their lot. That would greatly reduce the sprawl of malls and even the local shopping centers. It would also reduce the amount of land a business would have to buy to build on, which would in the end increase their profits by reducing property taxes. Gary said that the suits would lose money, but in fact they will do exactly the opposite. Most companies do not look at the savings in paper costs by not printing every document and the reduced mail cost by using email. They also do not count the reduced energy costs by efficiencies. It was corporations that first converted to fluorescent lights because they use less energy. Take care, Troy The next age of man is coming. Your ideas are right and they actually will increase GDP and create more jobs. The jobs will be in both research and in development of the fields you dicuss. Nice question. The adverse effects are non-existant please post your ideas in response to Nancy Pelosi's important question. Your ideas have stong merit. Those are all good ideas. Many of those things are already being done. But some are impractical and some are impossible. Limiting development in particular is impossible as long as the population is growing. If there are more people then we need more houses, more farm land, more schools, more factories, more shops and so on. The answer to CampbellP's concern about providing for more people is contained in his question: population control is necessary too, otherwise all the reforms in the world will only delay the inevitable. Those who still insist on having large families can all move to Vatican City with them, where I'm certain that "God will provide." Dream on my friend...the blue suits can't make enough money doing everything efficiently... Yeah...Me! Of course these are all good ideas. What is sad is that we all knew this quite well at least 30 years ago....Carter tried to get all this started and they laughed at him. Ford had a plan for complete energy independence within 10 years. All were voted out in favor of the nightmare Reagan years of "morning in America"...which brought us SUVs and a hugely unfortunate delay in getting started on all of this. Thanks for your list! But...global warming has a huge momentum and some will happen anyway. In fact, the rate of CO2 increase is 3 times worse now (reported in today's paper) than anyone had thought.....meaning our latest predictions will be more on the side of the worst global warming changes. Crops now grown in the U.S. will shift up to Canada; coastal areas may flood (say goodby to New Orleans for good and Florida). The impacts will not be trivial. Your ideas will help to make sure those worst case scenarios might not happen. Now we need to get China and the rest of the world to buy in! |
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