What can I do?

[paisleychick]

Comments

Global Warming

[anonymous]

How to get involved, and be most effective? Spread awareness, which you are doing. Set an example by moderate use of the energy that you use, which you are doing. Ultimately, though, conservation is useful only as a method of spreading awareness, and of maintaining your self-discipline and credibility. Conservation will not solve the problem, since it will be overwhelmed by increases in population. If everyone on earth immediately cut their energy use by 50%, in thirty years we would be back where are today. So find ways to get involved in solving the root problems: carbon-based energy generation; and population increase. If we could convert all energy sources away from burning fossil fuels; and if we could reduce the world's population to three billion (which is what it was when you were born), we would have a chance

[jrbl]

I find it interesting that you say you don't want to be the patronizing outsider, but then in the next sentence compare yourself (or the US?) to a parent, shepherding children (ie, other countries). It seems to me that the situation is less "Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack" and more "Lord of the Flies". We're (all of us) violent children, with no parents in sight.

[paisleychick]

What I meant by the metaphor is that I didn't want to be like that metaphor. Not clear, but hopefully you understand.

I don't think we're like Lord of the Flies because we can see what's going on and we can change it. We just need the right people to have the power to make change happen.