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your guide to greener living
greening it
Finally, something may exist that both environmentalists and George W. Bush can agree on: the ineffectiveness of fear mongering.
act quickly have turned many people off to caring about the world around them.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh started the countdown on a doomsday clock after the release of
An Inconvenient Truth because he claims that the documentary warned that global warming will kill
Because of the fake severity of their message,
"doomsday" environmentalists who claim that the
world will end in a few years if mankind doesn't
us all in 10 years. I would tell you the time we have left to live on this earth, according to Limbaugh's clock, but unfortunately I cannot access it on his Web site because I'm not a Rush 24/7 Member. Damn.
And you don't necessarily have to.
To live green, your motivations can be entirely selfish. You only need to care about yourself, your wallet and your species' ultimate survival.
Do you care about the world around you? Well,
let's just say that you don't.
Although green living and the belief in global
warming
usually go hand
in hand, you
don't have to
get married
to the idea.
You don't
necessarily
have to
care about
polar bears,
how quickly
Greenland is
melting or how
fast the ozone
is depleting.
But you should realize how your actions tie into environmental changes we see locally and globally
Yes, you're right I will probably pimp Al Gore at the drop of an Arctic ice sheet because I think he has done a wonderful job of bringing visibility to a previously downplayed issue.
However, this is a problem that transcends political boundaries, and I want to bring as many viewpoints to the table as possible.
What many people have a problem with is the confusing wording used by the scientific community when describing the problem.
Isn't global warming only a theory?
Exactly.
In science, everything is theoretical, and nothing can ever be completely proven or disproven.A mere hypothesis can only move into the upper echelons of being a theory after numerous tests, experiments and other hypotheses have failed to falsify the evidence.
Check out any 100-level chemistry or biology course.
Everyone seems to be content with many other theories that we deal with daily, such as the theory of gravity. Maybe when Americans can see climate change in their everyday lives will we finally commit to living a greener lifestyle.
Even if you still think that global warming is caused by a bunch of liberals blowing hot air, that's fine. All you have to truly care about is yourself, your wallet and your survival, which is all you need to live a greener life.
Whatever your political viewpoints, your background, your socio-economic standing or your Facebook status, you can all be green with me.
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