Global Warming
Global warming is one of those topics that is very controversial. One side says humans are destroying the word and are a major cause and catastrophe in eminent. The other side says what us humans are doing has little to do with global warming and it’s all natural.
I have always stood somewhere in the middle. The world hasn’t warmed up enough yet to show any signs yet. It bugs me when people say they notice global warming. The average temperatures have increased less than a degree over the last hundred years. Very unnoticeable, and it could be happening naturally. In fact there is a lot of natural global warming that we have no control over.
That being said, we do live pretty wasteful lives. If we are doing anything to help the natural warming increase, our part is going to increase exponential. people are living longer, and other parts of the world are getting more industrialized. Image in China was as wasteful as us? Their 1.3 billion people compared to our measly 0.3 billion.
I have always been on the side of trying to conserve. Sure, it might cost more money and add a few hardships, but it’s the only thing we control. With all the technology we have these days, we should be relying of fossil fuels a lot less. We should be generating more power by the sun and the wind, and nuclear.
This guy explains my view much better.
There was also an episode of Penn & Teller’s : Bullshit! about the energy crises that was very good and can be found on youtube in three parts.