Obviously, one person cannot make an impact but there is the personal satisfaction of doing one's part and maybe a few extra coins in your pocket.
On the contrary, YOU just made a VERY important impact with your post. Now it's up to the rest of us to take up the challenge.
Our grandparents all understood the idea of waste not want not. They knew to recycle, use some ingenuity to reuse items around the house, canned homegrown food, never wasted things we now consider trash.
Consider....perhaps all this recycling we are now doing is just a continuation of what we have always know to be good policy, just with rebranding, and the "global Warming" advocates throwing in their own wisdom as a scare tactic?
we are all on this blue ball together, we should all be willing to help make it work!
I build my home in the middle of once was a soybean field. I first surveyed and strategically planted decidous trees to shade the building site. Then designed my own home to incorporate balconies to allow in the winter sun and exclude the summer sun. Then Insulated the attic ceiling to an r=60 and the exterior walls to an r=30. Heat and cool with geothermal open loop water source heat pump.
Use recycled newsprint for horse bedding in barn and spread on fields. Must use farm truck, but combine trips and burn as little fuel as possible.
Rocky
A person has to be careful when saving the planet. Trees are a great thing do, but buying a hybrid car? Is does more harm than good when you buy one of those cars. Look into what it takes to make one of those batteries. That there will scare you off.
Much like what it takes to dig up coal or oil. Except when that battery is all used up 10 to 20 years from now it IS 100% recyclable. Oil will just be gone.
You need to ask a mechanic how long one of those batteries last. There is no way you will ever get that many years out of one. They are not cheap to buy another one either. Try thousands of dollars for another battery and please check out what it takes to make one and then see if you still think you are saving the planet.
Al Gore has one of the largest carbon footprints on the planet. He is heavily invested in compact fluorescent technology and has been successful in banning the incandescent bulb in 1012. Wind turbines use more energy to produce than they will ever produce in their lifetime. Global warming uses shaky scientific facts and we have been recording the coldest years on record. Think I will increase my carbon footprint so we can enjoy a nudist lifestyle!!!
You are right on that one. Al Gore is a joke when it comes to the carbon footprint. He uses more elec than some small towns.
Al Gore has one of the largest carbon footprints on the planet. He is heavily invested in compact fluorescent technology and has been successful in banning the incandescent bulb in 1012. Wind turbines use more energy to produce than they will ever produce in their lifetime. Global warming uses shaky scientific facts and we have been recording the coldest years on record. Think I will increase my carbon footprint so we can enjoy a nudist lifestyle!!!
I don't know how Al Gore snuck in here. Lastthing, I heard, was that he was very busy defending himself on a sexual assult charge. Does it really matter what he is doing while you are planting that tree which will make your own home more comfortable while saving on your utility bill?
A person has to be careful when saving the planet. Trees are a great thing do, but buying a hybrid car? Is does more harm than good when you buy one of those cars. Look into what it takes to make one of those batteries. That there will scare you off.
Much like what it takes to dig up coal or oil. Except when that battery is all used up 10 to 20 years from now it IS 100% recyclable. Oil will just be gone.
You need to ask a mechanic how long one of those batteries last. There is no way you will ever get that many years out of one. They are not cheap to buy another one either. Try thousands of dollars for another battery and please check out what it takes to make one and then see if you still think you are saving the planet.
Early Li-on batteries had there problems but battery chemistry is getting better and better all the time. There are many Rav4 EVs with +100K miles and going strong. There are even more prius' with much more milage than that. Most of the failed hybrid batteries out there had only one failed cell and could easily have been repaired. Then after about 10 years of good service in a car re-purpous that battery to a solar array and that same battery will have 10 more years of life. After that recycle it and start all over, without mining again. Or use up all the oil and "drill baby drill" until its all up in smoke. But thats OK because we'll all be dead by then, Right? {cough}
Hybrid cars are only a stepping stone to help push battery tech along. We are quickly approching the end of internal combustion powered cars.
I believe that God put us on this planet to use it's resources. All of them.
If that isn't the most selfish attitude. That explains a lot.
My favorite quote is " I didn't inherit the earth from my parents, I borrowed it from my kids."We should be miniaturizing nuclear technology
So sitting on 20 gallons of flammable gas isn't crazy enough.How is it that the liberals say we have to find renewable energy sources because oil is running out and in the same breath oppose tapping into abundant and available oil resources?
Renewable resource - finite resource. figure it out. Abundant? Some agree, some don't. Available? By decimating whats left of unspoiled nature. See my favorite quote above.
Natureboy, oil being a finite resource is more referring the to the fact that once it's burned, it is gone not the fact that it will run out. There is no scientific evidence that the oil the US is sitting on will ever run out yet there are sources that say we have at least an 100 yr reserve under our noses. Regardless of what you want to believe, simple logic dictates that in order for us to be energy independent, we must utilize OUR OWN resources, and work to make these resources more efficient before we can move towards more renewable sources. There is a give and take for everything, and this international push to force renewable energy on all of us in place of oil, gas and nuclear is only going to drive the cost of living sky high and make it so no one can afford anything. Energy independence must start with independence from foreign oil. As far as I know, they have not created a solar powered or wind powered semi truck that transports all goods thoughout the US. (not to even mention rail, and boats). Once again, I will re-iterate that I'm all for Green Technologies, in fact I'm in the Green energy and water business, but the choices to implement them should be encouraged by governments through education but the choices should be made by the individual on how much they can afford them.
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