Comments on: I Haven’t Watched An Inconvenient Truth http://plasticless.com/2009/07/08/i-havent-watched-an-inconvenient-truth/ Tips and strategies to help the environment by cutting back on plastic in our everyday lives. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:17:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Martin http://plasticless.com/2009/07/08/i-havent-watched-an-inconvenient-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-1425 Martin Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:26:46 +0000 http://plasticless.com/?p=718#comment-1425 The elephant in the room during any serious discussion about these issues is overpopulation. Up until recently, I thought that helping the rest of the world to surpass the point of development where birthrates drop was a viable solution. Several facts made me change my opinion. I don't have a solution, I just know that any 'natural' adjustment is not going to be pretty. The elephant in the room during any serious discussion about these issues is overpopulation. Up until recently, I thought that helping the rest of the world to surpass the point of development where birthrates drop was a viable solution. Several facts made me change my opinion. I don’t have a solution, I just know that any ‘natural’ adjustment is not going to be pretty.

]]> By: Meg from FruWiki http://plasticless.com/2009/07/08/i-havent-watched-an-inconvenient-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-1424 Meg from FruWiki Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:21:20 +0000 http://plasticless.com/?p=718#comment-1424 I haven't watched it either, though I do believe that man-made global warming is almost definitely occurring and poses a serious threat. However, I think sometimes people focus too much on the numbers debating how many feet the oceans will rise or when we will have (or did) reach the point of no return or how many scientists have to agree about global warming for it to be considered a fact. Those specific numbers are too uncertain and open to debate. An important topic, yes, but not the one we should focus our attention on, in my humble opinion. What we should be screaming about -- and hopefully everyone can agree about -- is that we shouldn't be filling our air with chemicals we shouldn't breath, nor our water with chemicals we shouldn't drink. And who could argue with such common sense? (O.k. there still are some out there, but I think the number would be much lower if they had to stick to those issues.) And of course, fixing those things also helps fix global warming in the process. I haven’t watched it either, though I do believe that man-made global warming is almost definitely occurring and poses a serious threat.

However, I think sometimes people focus too much on the numbers debating how many feet the oceans will rise or when we will have (or did) reach the point of no return or how many scientists have to agree about global warming for it to be considered a fact. Those specific numbers are too uncertain and open to debate. An important topic, yes, but not the one we should focus our attention on, in my humble opinion.

What we should be screaming about — and hopefully everyone can agree about — is that we shouldn’t be filling our air with chemicals we shouldn’t breath, nor our water with chemicals we shouldn’t drink. And who could argue with such common sense? (O.k. there still are some out there, but I think the number would be much lower if they had to stick to those issues.)

And of course, fixing those things also helps fix global warming in the process.

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