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pnichols
Mar 04, 2017Explorer II
Newbiecampers wrote:
"Human activites" having to do with recent global warming....."upcoming disastrous affects on worldwide weather"
That coming from someone driving around in an E450.
You should be driving nothing but a prius, if even that, if your visions of doom and gloom for the earth and it's inhabitants are truly what you believe.
You seem to keep bringing that all-or-nothing myopic reasoning up due to some motive.
I've never have thought, and do not now think, that recreational fossil fuel burning is what's doing in the planet. We, you, and all-of-us could keep doing that and not significantly add to the disastrous over-amounts of CO2 and other stuff in the upper atmosphere that is now building up per instrument measurements.
What we personally have done, and do, to help control the hothouse affect are such things as these (not necessarily listed in order of priority except for No. 1) ... what things are you doing?:
1. Have only two kids, with one of them stopping at two kids and the other one never having kids.
2. Recycling everything we can.
3. Get our water from nature - a well and a spring - instead of having a huge energy-hog infrastructure supply it.
4. Drive old vehicles year after year instead of buying new ones way too often. I wonder what pollutes more overall - continuing to repair and drive old vehicles - or having new ones made for us way too often via a huge energy-hog infrastructure?
5. Eat from our own pesticide-less orchard.
6. Eat some stuff from our own pesticide-less garden.
7. Repair all kinds of daily living stuff over and over instead of replacing it with the latest-and-greatest new way too often.
8. Use the highest efficiency air-to-air heat-pump available to heat and cool our home.
9. Build a lot of our own home instead of relying on a huge infrastructure to build it ... including way over-insulate it for our area.
10. Heat our swimming pool with solar.
11. At pickup time - drag by hand our garbage cans up and down a 500 foot long sloping driveway instead of using some fossil fuel burning method to do it.
12. Live in a recreational vehicle several weeks a year instead of a stick house.
13. Never fly to any destination.
14. Eat very few beef products.
15. Not drinking any milk.
16. Use LED lights in most of our home.
17. Use a LED backlit TV instead of a CRT or plasma based TV (an OLED TV would probably use even less energy).
18. Use Class D ampliers in our home theater's sound system.
19. Etc.
20. Etc.
Doing such things as the above (especially the absolute highest priority thing -> No. 1.) probably well swamps out getting 9-10 MPG in a gasoline powered RV between campsites for part of one's life.
Control of the hothouse affect doesn't require taking every action possible or available by every individual ... it requires that all of us take high priority actions as much as possible or available.
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