a question for you
I expect most of the readers here accept that climate change is real. So what are you doing to plan for it personally?
By that I mean are you doing anything to prepare for it yourself? Those of you in colder climates may actually be looking forward to it for all I know. But what if you live in Texas or southern California? Are you making any changes to deal with it? I don’t necessarily mean to try to prevent it but to cope with it.
September 30th, 2005 @ 10:36 am
Wow. So many things I’d like to do to help the environment, so little I actually do.
Not quite your question, but that’s the direction my head goes.
Would like:
To drive a hybrid or a biodiesel.
To have a solar panel array to supplement purchased power, and possibly a wind turbine, too.
To have a cistern to catch rain water to use for all my garden needs.
To be able to easily recycle more of my household refuse.
To buy ecologically sound materials: engineered woods, hemp paper, etc.
To support the economy of the U.S. on what I can earn, rather than buying foriegn-manufactured goods that have a price tag far beyond that of the cheap labour passed on to the buyer.
Do currently:
Drive four-cylinder vehicles and keep them until they are totally used up.
Have some five gallon buckets with lids that I use to catch rain water that pours off my roof. The lids go on after the bucket fills to keep it mosquito-free, and another bucket gets stacked atop to catch the next rainfall.
Recycle what the curbside pick-up ($30.00 yearly) does allow: clear bottles, two types of plastic, two types of cardboard, newspaper and flyers, office papers, metal.
Compost everything I can.
Sigh. So little.
I was raised in the grand ‘back to the land’ ‘five acres and a mule’ dreaming of the late sixties and early seventies.
I’ve progressed very little on that path, and it’s discouraging at times. I really need to sit back and evaluate what I am doing.
October 1st, 2005 @ 4:09 pm
Bill, several of my oil and gas blog buddies laugh at the global warming theory, as well they might given their pocketbooks. I am sure that the global warming we are seeing evidence of now is a combination of human pollution as well as a natural cycle, but even so, does not excuse humans from harming the environment to smithereens.
Alas, like Jenn, I am not pulling my weight on this issue. I mostly run around like Chicken Little, but have poor direction as to what I can financially afford to do. One morning we will all wake up and discover we attempted too little, too late.
October 2nd, 2005 @ 12:42 am
Well, if I were you, Bill, I’d move the hell out of Texas for starters….
October 2nd, 2005 @ 8:58 am
Pattie, I think all of us pay too much attention to the issue of whether human activity is causing global warming. Regardless of whether man’s actions play much of a role, people are seeing with their own eyes that the climate is changing. Perhaps even if humans did not exist, the earth woulld be going through this exact same change because of some natural forces we don’t know about.
Personally I don’t care what the cause is. I am more interested in what the solution is.
Should everyone just pack up and move a hundred miles north. Or there other things we can do?
October 2nd, 2005 @ 9:33 am
Well, for one, our next vehicle will be a hybrid. I guess I’ll also be clearing out our spare room to make room for someone who would otherwise have to put up with unthinkable temperatures.
No, we’re not relishing the change at all, no matter how cold it gets here in winter. It’s too big a price to pay everywhere for a balmy January.
October 3rd, 2005 @ 5:28 pm
More seriously I hope to:
* Get a hybrid car
* Get a solar panel for charging said hybrid car
* Get a larger camel-back for hiking in the hotter weather
* Vote for candidates who will actually do something about the problem
You can grill me more when we see each other in person this weekend, sir.