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Jacqui
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WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
March 27, 2009 - 06:36 AM
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We cannot wait for governments to act on climate change. It has to be individuals that change the course of the Earth’s future. Governments are under pressure from big businesses and industries that provide them with large amounts of tax dollars each year. By the time they act, it will be too late to reverse the damage. We will have to minimise any further damage.
The chief executive of the Australia Climate Institute, John Connor says “Australians still want [our country] to lead, not follow, on climate change – to act, not delay action on reducing emissions”. It is no longer enough that we recycle our household goods and compost our scraps. Our action must be much more decisive and immediate.
But not everyone wants to drive a hybrid car, install expensive solar panels, and turn off their lights at 9pm. So what is the answer?
Carbon trading is an option that we should consider closely. It is a solution NOW, and not an excuse to wait until technology improves. Carbon trading involves paying green companies to plant trees for you, or develop those vital technologies that will emerge in the future. Make sure each carbon credit is accredited under the Kyoto Protocol, and this will ensure that your money goes where it’s supposed to go.
An average Australia family would need to plant 80 trees to offset their yearly carbon emissions. Who has the time or space to do that?
Carbon trading is not expensive, either. You can offset your household and cars for about the same cost as your yearly house and contents insurance.
What are we waiting for?
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MysticFirelizard
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Re: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
April 4, 2009 - 10:36 PM
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I agree that carbon trading is a good solution for us as individuals to have a significant impact on saving the environment, but as a whole I don't think this will work. Not very many people will agree with us and feel excited about practically doubling their home insurance just to make sure that they have a small impact on mother nature as an individual. Perhaps a major organization or several should get together to distribute pamphlets out to, well, everywhere, that have reasonable environmental projections that describe what the world will be like the way we're going now, what we can do as individuals and families to help in saving it, and then what governments and societies can do as a whole to accomplish the same feat?
Although, that would take up a ton of trees and paper, so perhaps running massive advertising that directs us all to a website that has that same brief information in a very simplified and user-friendly form? And perhaps further and more detailed information like what you see on typical environmental conservation sites, except with that information all behind one link of something like "Click here for more detailed information on [this]" or something at the very end or bottom of the brief information?
Basically taking that same pamphlet and putting it online, and then throwing a single link at the bottom of it that would take you to all of that extra stuff, like an index or something, so that those who go to the website don't feel overwhelmed by so much information or links or anything thinking that, instead of doing a bunch of small and simple things, they would have to hand over their lives to going green and complete activism or something like that.
Or just not have that link there at all and just the basic information. But really, I think a massive large-scale effort should be made exactly like that so that people know what our planet is headed for and what we can do to help it. And there should especially be a specific section for what we can do as individuals, and then one for what we can do as governments and societies.
This post was edited on: 2009-04-04 at 10:37 PM by: MysticFirelizar
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Laurent Ye
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Re: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
April 14, 2009 - 08:37 PM
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People in general don't like to act. Instead, they prefer others to act for them and to propose solutions to them.
What's difficult isn't to follow the leaders, it's to FIND a leader.
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Sarah D
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Re: WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
May 5, 2009 - 10:25 AM
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If you are interested in this discussion you might also want to check out...
http://discuss.tigweb.org/thread/37675
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