It’s Green Week here at NBC Universal, and How You Can Save The World is always thinking about the environment. That’s because our planet plays a big role in how we are — and should be — shaping the way we think, act and react to the political and technological challenges that sometimes make it hard to be green. That’s why it’s important to stay informed, and explore how you feel about energy, science, nutrition and more — and how it all plugs back into our planet.
Catch up on our evolving dialogue about a more environmentally-minded future by clicking on the headlines below.
Tomorrow matters, as much as today, by Jamais Cascio
Change the food system, and you change the world, by Denise Caruso
Why your personal carbon footprint matters, by Siel
Is your cheeseburger causing global warming? by Jamais Cascio
We ignored our looming energy crisis for far too long, by Lee Schipper
A case for vegetarianism, without the guilt trip, by Brian Sager
The Earth will be just fine, thank you, by Jamais Cascio
Nature’s Wrath: Who stands to lose the most? by John Podesta
Do we no longer believe in a better tomorrow? by Peter Schwartz
The dangers of a politicized scientific community, by Neal Lane
Opening up new horizons for solar energy, by John M. Deutch
Down the rabbit, er, prairie dog hole , by Anton Yelchin
By Jeff at 4:02 PM ON 11/21/08
Great website, great ideas, but it fails to emphasize (or even mention, from what of it I've seen so far) the key factor in determining whether the environment can be protected and whether a sustainable future is even possible: population control.
No matter how much we individually and collectively manage to reduce our impacts on this planets resources, an ever-increasing population makes it an exercise in futility.
By Tom at 2:03 PM ON 11/24/08
I find myself agreeing with many of the comments on this site however, not for the reasons you might think.
I have been an environmentalist since the day I
finished reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
I have done everything I can to educate my friends and relatives about the dangers of pesticides, water pollution, solid waste, you name it... I have also practiced what I preach by using the most benign products I can find, driving the most economical car I can afford, CFL etc...
Howevere, I am deeply concerned about the amount of Global Climat Hysteria I am reading!!! I always thought that readers of SciFi had the curiosity to find things out for themselves. You can only imagine my surprise when the Stargate Atlantis episode, for November 21, bought into the AGW BS.
Here are some facts to chew on for you.
1. Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.”
2. 2007 was the watershed year in which scientists, even those from the IPCC committees, completely discredited the IPCC review process, exposed its purely political motivations and machinations, and drove the final nails into the coffin of the Gore / Hansen AGW climate change monster.
Now for some opinion
1. There are many other more immediate issues facing the world than “Global Warming.” Try depletion of pelagic fisheries, water reclamation, ensuring adequate future food and energy supplies, or curtailing whale hunting. But these issues don’t make headlines and don’t allow politicians to mandate the massive global redistribution of wealth possible with AGW. Think about it. When was the last time a blockbuster movie was made about the collapse of the wild Slimehead (aka the Orange Roughy) fishery?
Climate change fearmongering is now being driven by BIG Business which foresees a huge market in peddling “Green” wares to populations preconditioned to respond to the various “global warming” and climate doomsday hysterias . These are the unscientific masses who don’t understand the science, who don’t subscribe to Nature or AAAS Science, and who take everything they see and hear on TV as the gospel truth. GW and Climate Change are all about PROFITS, not saving the World from a fate which will not occur anyway.
Al Gore has an ego the size of Air Force One which needs to stay in the limelight since it’s not in the Oval Office, but Al and his cronies stand to profit immensely from his climate change monster. Once he has government mandates, then the cash will really begin to flow - directly into his bank account from yours. That’s why he is now rolling out his PSAs in order to influence you to influence Congress and why he was asked to join one of the largest venture capital firms in the nation out on Sand Hill working on carbon credit trading.
Folks, AGW is pure POLITICAL science, NOT hard science. Don’t fall for the hysteria.
By jonmac at 9:33 PM ON 12/19/08
Ah!
It's great to see people finally realizing that the present "global warming threat" is false.
Look up book: "It's Not Your SUV it's the SUN".
The writer has credentials!
The "global warming threat" is nothing but a social /behavior control experiment.
Reality can be bad enough, let alone people behaving like "chicken little" because no one has time to investigate things outside of their College and bar room doors.