Comments on: HOW SHOULD-DO BECOMES DO-DO. http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/ Charting the disconnect between climate science and action Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Paul http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/comment-page-1/#comment-18304 Paul Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:01:35 +0000 http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/#comment-18304 Recycling is reduced energy use, isn't it? Personal guilt (half-implied by the word 'denial') will not solve human-induced global warming. Make filament bulbs illegal and people will not buy them. Introduce strict environmental laws and enforce them - no colour coded fridges, just one colour for efficient ones. Governments have to enact laws when we are talking about billions of people. Telling people not to put their TV on standby and to wash their dishes by hand are trivialising/individualising a bigger problem that requires a POLITICAL solution. Surely then, the results of this survey are not so surprising. Recycling is reduced energy use, isn’t it?

Personal guilt (half-implied by the word ‘denial’) will not solve human-induced global warming. Make filament bulbs illegal and people will not buy them. Introduce strict environmental laws and enforce them – no colour coded fridges, just one colour for efficient ones. Governments have to enact laws when we are talking about billions of people.

Telling people not to put their TV on standby and to wash their dishes by hand are trivialising/individualising a bigger problem that requires a POLITICAL solution. Surely then, the results of this survey are not so surprising.

]]> By: Diana Korchien http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12217 Diana Korchien Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:06:29 +0000 http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/#comment-12217 Recycling in itself may not be a frontline antidote to climate change, but seeing as we need to change so many of our profligate habits, I see no reason why you seize upon it as a pointless displacement activity. To me it is the beginning of a new respect for our environment: an awareness that we have manufactured too much and need to slow down and use up less of the ever-diminishing useful raw materials the planet can offer. Industry itself is a large source of emissions, so the more we can trade goods via Freecycle, the more food waste we can compost, the less we will need new products and chemical fertilisers. In that respect recycling is reducing many potential factory emissions. Recycling in itself may not be a frontline antidote to climate change, but seeing as we need to change so many of our profligate habits, I see no reason why you seize upon it as a pointless displacement activity. To me it is the beginning of a new respect for our environment: an awareness that we have manufactured too much and need to slow down and use up less of the ever-diminishing useful raw materials the planet can offer. Industry itself is a large source of emissions, so the more we can trade goods via Freecycle, the more food waste we can compost, the less we will need new products and chemical fertilisers. In that respect recycling is reducing many potential factory emissions.

]]> By: FreeRadical http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/comment-page-1/#comment-9036 FreeRadical Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:37:29 +0000 http://climatedenial.org/2007/07/25/how-should-do-becomes-do-do/#comment-9036 Back in the early nineties, I was participating in a local Friends of the Earth survey in our local town survey. We were asking passers by whether they were concerned about global warming. One response has stuck with me. The response was: "no it's all right, I don't live here". Based-upon this and the IPSOS-Mori survey Seems that either people have swallowed the lies of the energy companies, or the numbers of extraterrestrials are on the increase! Back in the early nineties, I was participating in a local Friends of the Earth survey in our local town survey. We were asking passers by whether they were concerned about global warming. One response has stuck with me. The response was: “no it’s all right, I don’t live here”.
Based-upon this and the IPSOS-Mori survey
Seems that either people have swallowed the lies of the energy companies, or the numbers of extraterrestrials are on the increase!

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