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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I'm no scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but to reverse the line of thinking, why, as NOT being one, should I be irresponsible about my place in all this? Isn't it better to err on the side of helping, even if the data isn't complete?
/me goes outside and burns leaves for a week and cuts down a bunch of trees, then hauls them off in her massive 8mpg SUV...
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I'm all for cutting down on pollution, but I'm not for scaring the public over a chimera.
Environmentalists are trying to take the 'easy' way to get public environmental concerns going with the 'OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!' type of alarmism. The problem is that in the long run, that doesn't work, and doesn't change the social conscious. When it turns out we are not all going to die people will go back to not caring and might even go overboard out of resentment for being duped in the first place.
Crying wolf isn't what we need, we need people actually caring about the environment for its own sake. Only then will you see real changes in lifestyle.