Russell797
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I never said climate change was life threatening...and I don't much care even if it is - I will be long dead before it effects me and I do my part so my conscious is clean.
Climate change is up to individuals...not the government.
And the balanced budget is NOT up to individuals after the election. The masses cannot force governments to balance budgets...they can only threaten to not vote for them if they don't balance it. The politicians are directly responsible for the fiscal budgets...not the masses.
But climate change is ALL about the masses. They can economically boycott corporations that do not clean up their act. They can buy only products that are better for the environment. They can drive less and walk/ride more.
Politicians can do little. Look at Kyoto? Big hoopla...hardly any change in the end.
If the masses truly want climate change to stop - only they can truly stop it.
If you wait for politicians to stop it, you are naive. Because I guarantee you they won't.
This obviously means more to you then it does to me.
We are done here.
Good day.
Consumers have little say over the source of their energy production. Electric generation and the vehicles people operate are the largest contributors to CO2 emissions on a global scales. This is not a single nation problem, it's a collective world problem. Even if the U.S. could determine it's emissions by simple consumer choice, the U.S. only contributes about 15% of total global emissions. What is required is a globalized effort by all industrialized and emerging economies to change the way energy is produced and utilized. That means governments, not individual people must act.
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