Your Questions About Save Energy Save Earth

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Picking up trash and recycling do not save energy. In fact I argue that they use energy. Especially picking up trash. If you just did nothing and let the trash sit there then you would be using zero energy. If you pick it up, not only are you using your own muscle energy, but some trash hauler then has to empty the trash container you filled up and haul the trash to a dump in a vehicle that uses energy.

What more could you do? Never ride in a motor vehicle (or do it less often). Never turn on the heater or air conditioner (or do it less often). Never buy anything from any store or on line seller (or do it less often), because all those items took energy to manufacture and transport.

In short, the more you give up, the more you save. Even giving up a clean park saves energy.

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Her and Harry Reid have a real pickle coming up, a lot of Democrats are facing re-election and their constitients are hurting over fuel prices, if they dont change their minds on drilling, it will be a massacre this year for them

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As much energy as the given population that participates.- i.e. Who knows and it really doesn’t matter. The political whackos simply care about the message that brings them profit from fear ( a.k.a. Al Gore) This is about as useless as Earth Day. I turn out my lights every night when I go to sleep from a hard day of work;and during the DAY while at work. Peee…. Yeeewwww! LOL

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Some simple ways to save the world. I am not talking about mass movements here.
1. Reduce your use of water by showering for a reduced time. Don’t waste water. We can use less water and still maintain our self clean.
2. Use your washing machine efficiently. Use only full load.
3. Try to minimize washing of clothes by wearing clothes more time. Today’s clothes do not get soiled so fast.
4. Use public transport whenever possible. Using a 1000 kg car to transport one peron is very gross. Try to have more people in one vehicle.
5. Do not waste food. Food wasted not only consume it but disposal also takes up resources.
6. Try to use less air conditioning and heaters. For heaters you can use warm clothing and avoid using the heaters. For air con put the setting up and use less of it.
6. Spend time in open atmosphere so that we use less energy.
If everyone is prepared to do small things like these probably we can achieve more.

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Hell doesn’t exist so no, we can’t.

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Because they are going Green and only use the A/C when necessary.

P.s I’m not White and I do that as well.

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We are not seeking to ‘save the Earth’ by living a green lifestyle, but to minimize disruption caused by the negative effects of climate change to mankind. I do not believe we can stop global warming, but perhaps slow it down or delay it.

You have highlighted one of the key issues: I agree that no fuel or product in the world can minimize Global Warming. Although Greener Options may reduce some negative outputs. However, in my opinion the only way to be effective is to limit our consumption of everything, particularly if we all commit to and act on, this.

My French Niece is staying over and she wanted some English Jeans from Tesco. I was shocked by the prices of some of the products. A two man garden tent reduced to only £7. How can this be right? How can we justify the number of work hours, the costs of materials, the investment in machinery, the transportation, the environmental costs of production, processing and disposal and the store’s overheads, staff training and so on, when a two man tent is £7?

It has become normal to over-consume everything in affluent countries. It is greed. This greed is exploitation of other people and the environment. We should factor some of the real costs into the product price such as an ‘air mile’ tax
an environmental impact cost. A disposal charge, a ‘fair and ethical trade’ cost and so on. If we started paying the real price for goods and services we would automatically limit our own consumption.

How many man hours would it cost in reality to produce that two man tent by hand? How much effort to grow, manufacture and make up the materials for use before you can even start to make the tent? What is the environmental impact of using these resources? The time invested in acquiring the skills by the worker? These are the real costs. We have only being paying a fraction of the true price of all items.

You point out how people are cognitive dissonant when it comes to leaving on lights in the house. How can we stop this? Firstly there are design solutions to manage inefficiencies of products. Intelligent design would mean that the lighting and appliances switch off when the last person leaves the room. Think University libraries that already have this technology.

Secondly: By taking no action ourselves we can place the issue firmly in the Government of the day’s hands. They can limit consumption, by taxation and other additional charges.
Thirdly: Governments can withdraw or limit our choices such as in the UK preventing people from smoking in public places. Then we just have to consider ethically reducing populations to limit demand on finite resources.

Governments are now under increasing global pressure of penalties and charges for not addressing the problems. Ultimately, in future, people will have to really pay to maintain their double standards.