You care about greenhouse gases and your carbon footprint.
Not exact matches
If simply to support the Kyoto Protocol is to beat our heads against a stone wall, then those who
care about the future of the planet need to consider other ways of reducing the emission of
greenhouse gases.
Second, if C02 didn't matter («minor
greenhouse gas»), there would never have been any reason to
care about the «iris effect».
Also pack up all your
cares and woes if you're concerned
about the future of renewables, especially solar power, the same section contains an article in which Dr. Ray Kurzweil says in part:» Worried
about greenhouse gas emissions?
They only think
about their own business, they do not
care that US's
greenhouse gas emission is affecting world poor areas.
Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you
care about food prices,
greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an important food source for monarchs and habitat for other wildlife.
I used to think massive investment in basic science might be our only way out, but when I read
about the real cost for producing electric cars (ex.,
greenhouse gases used to make batteries), subsidized solar companies going under because they can not compete with China (which doesn't
care about labor needs or pollution), etc., then I wonder
about that too.
In any case, in reading these arguments, I find it hard to believe that anyone who
cares about GLOBAL
greenhouse gas emissions / concentrations could cheer the law, and — if so — I'd have to ask why?
In the climate debate, that's why persistent calls for those who
care about stabilizing the concentration of
greenhouse gases to pick a number, whether 350.org's favorite or Joe Romm's, are in my view a waste of time.
This means that an already difficult challenge for resident populations and those who
care about them (for whatever reason, including moral, humanitarian or national security) will be likely be made more challenging by human climate change if the
greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced significantly.
Greenhouse gas externalities will not be fully priced in for decades, especially for costs imposed on areas outside of the country where the
gases are produced (why should we
care about those effects?)
Would we like it today if the Romans had developed a modern technological society like ours, and their scientists told them that using the atmosphere as a waste dump for
greenhouse gases would melt the ice caps, acidify the oceans, overheat the tropics, cause species extinctions, etc, and then they decided to go ahead and do it anyway, just because they were selfish and didn't
care about other people?