How Do Humans Cause Global Warming
Congratulate yourself for wanting to learn about the main cause of global warming. Not only does our species create huge problems that are beyond the ability of other animals to create, but we have the fortunate ability to analyze them and work to bring an end to their consequences. You are actively engaged in that process.
Humans cause global warming with our unique ability to capture and use energy from stored energy sources. No other animal can start fires or build gasoline engines.
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Consider your home and the environment in which it is situated. The very fact that you live in one place, something that was quite uncommon before the discovery of stored energy sources like fossil fuels, speaks to how your life is facilitated by these unique energy sources.
Even your basic needs are dependent on fossil fuels. Your water, food, and fuel for heating and cooking likely travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles to your home.
This pattern couldn’t be sustained if humans didn’t have the ability to exploit dense energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas. However, their discovery transformed the face of the earth and the nature of humans.
The effects on earth are dangerous. In the last 150 years, the human population has grown by more than five times and each person uses more energy than ever. This energy comes largely from fossil fuels, the use of which is a direct cause of global warming.
Global Warming is a Growing Problem
The growth of the human population and the growth of consumption adds up to an ever-escalating carbon output. You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about global warming, but if we want to decrease global warming, then the amount of carbon released each year by humans must be drastically reduced.
Human Consumption or Human Population?
Two factors are acting as catalysts of increased carbon levels in our atmosphere:
- Increasing consumption among the wealthy (that means you!)
- Increasing population among the poor
You may wonder which is the primary culprit. The answer is clear – both! Consider the following:
- Americans consume 300 - 600 times as much as people in very poor nations, in some cases.
- 70 million people are added to the world’s population each year, many of whom aspire to live “better” lives, to consume like wealthy people.
From this it becomes clear why humans are the main cause of global warming. However, it is even more important for you to understand that you have the power to help prevent global warming from getting worse.
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…AND i agree with Ronald McDonald!!!
ii think this is a load off rubishh! bob sayss get a LIFEEEE !!
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i agree with bob you are all sad and need to get a gripppppp!! love you bob darling
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Last night I watched 2 films.
One called The Age Of Stupid which was a hard hitting film set in 2043, the population of the world is all but wiped out, all coastal cities are under sea. The temparature of the earths suface has risen beyond the level where all species can survive. One man in the antarctic is putting together a selection of clips showing the run up of actions of apathy and greed that led to this situation to transmit to alien races as a warning. Problem: no scientific evidence was given to support this proclamation and although I felt this film was valuble as it really made me think about mans inhumanity to man and our obscene levels of greed and waste, I came away feeling as though the whole purpose of the film was to terrify people into changing their behaviour but to what ends? Maybe the film makers assumed that the avarage viewer is a simpleton who cannot comprehend scientific evidence? The second film was called Global Warming or Global governance? A film by Soveriegnty International Incorporation who were founded to give an alternative view to the climate debate. They have gone on to include the full range of UN influence on domestic policies. This fact puts my sceptical back up. It was too a very hard hitting film this time with lots of evidence to suggest that rising levels of Co2 actually follow Global Warming, the opposite view. It also claimed that Co2 makes up 9% of greenhouse gases, and only 1% of that is caused by humans. The rest being mainly water vapour (Clouds eg)It showed that the planet has in fact been warming and cooling scince the begining of time and many species have evolved and become extinct due to this cycle (Dinosaurs, Wooly Mamouths)The evidence was very convincing. But this was clearly a propaganda film trying to stir up feelings of defensiveness in American people, telling them that they were being duped into giving up their comfortable lives and signing them over to the NWO. This film didnt seem to give any consideration to the welfare of the human race as a whole.
Now I feel very fustrated that it seems imposible to know if what you are being taught about the causes of global warming is true. It seems imposible to find any research that has been done that hasnt been funded by a political party. Just as any news we are given, it is never impartial.
So what do we do? Who to believe? One thing is for sure, the wealth of the world is unfairly distributed and the earths natural resources are fast running out.
.Every day one in five of the world population go hungry.
.Every cow in the EU is subsidised by $2.50 a day, more than what 75% Africans have to live on.
.The worlds oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.
.Americans discard 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour, enough to reach the moon every 3 weeks.
We need to put asside our own agendas and collectively demand the truth, and not allow greed and selfishness to prevent us from doing what is right.
Appologies for the very long rant!
If only we lived in a world where the Earth could deal with changes and wasn’t a fragile sphere of glass, ready to break into pieces at the slightest force against it.
Too bad we live in this reality. A reality where Earth’s history isn’t filled with huge events like meteorites, huge volcanoes, and other things people might consider “catastrophic” events. Because I mean, if those kind of things really did happen, then surely one would conclude slight rises in earth’s average temperature wouldn’t seem like the end of the world.
People wake up!! There is 6.6 billion people in the WHOLE WORLD! Jacksonville, FL is 22 billion square ft which means you can put the whole human population in that whole city. Do the math. Blaming human population for the global warming is just a front to decrease human population so that the global elitests can control the world like were there puppets. The smaller the population the easier it is to control. Besides….why is the planet Mars ice caps are melting? They are reciding and there’s not one human being on that planet…….so far no one can come up with an answer. Oh by the way…Mars is the fourth planet from the sun.
For you information Kalikiano the reason why the ice caps of Mars are melting is because Mars has an energy field thats is significantly less than the energy field Erath has. this allows the sun’s solar rays to beat and abuse Mars’ suface.
This messagre is for both the believers that global warming is caused by humans and for the skeptics: fact of the matter is we are living in an entirely new enviroment than we were living in 50 years ago. It is common sense that we would have adapted and found different ways of living than we did 50 years ago, but we haven’t. No matter what the cause is or how humans are adding on to the cause, it is our responsibity of being the supieror species of this planet to take action. And if we decide not to take action, then what will?
Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!
You guys are SO MEAN!!!!
Have some respect to each other!!!!
We are all HOMO-SAPIENS AFTER ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ayyyyyiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!
Global Warming!!!!!!!!
Is it the end of the world???
Are we all going to die!!!???
I don’t like it warm… I love the snow!!!!
Sigh, You know you stated something that really is just amazing. The population has grown. So in essence we consume oxygen and emit Co2. Are you really going to cut back on quality of life for this belief that Co2 is causing global warming? We have not been on this planet long enough to know whether or not this is a natural cycle and looking at the suns solar output being higher than usual is every indication. In the 1970’s the Time magazine informed us of global warnings dangers. What happened over the next 20 years was a cooling cycle and t was cold, very cold. However the sun is now outputting again a higher amount of energy thus making it hotter. I have never seen so many people guilty to just be alive. Look I am not against being energy efficient. I know we have a limited resource, and should be responsible with it. My home is energy efficient. I keep my thermostat around 64 degrees in the winter, and I am conscious about the amount of fuel energy and water I use. Because it is a limited resource. The earth has been around for Millions of years to think we know enough about the planet since the 10,000 years we have been around is so arrogant. We don’t know enough yet. I will be the first to admit I am wrong. We all have our science, The Human population amazingly only contributes to 3% of green house gasses total. That’s everyone included. The rest comes from decaying plant life, forest fires and volcanoes. So can’t we just say that being more efficient is just a good idea? Instead of scaring people. No one realizes that the idea to raise fuel prices to turn people off to fossil fuels and have us look into other technologies is killing people in third world countries. every-time fuel prices go up they can’t afford it like we do they rely on prices being low to farm and feed their families. As Americans we are so arrogant to think that prices her and our standard of living is universal throughout the world. We are so arrogant. We can get to the better technologies and we are working on it. Stop with the scare tactics. Again I like being efficient with limited resources and I love the idea of free energy from the sun.
Amazingly Al Gore the man who brought this all to our attention uses more electricity in his home alone in one day then we use in a month. You think a man with such an urgent message to save the planet would make the very changes himself. Instead he has a company that profits from the carbon credits he sells. Gee sounds like capitalism at its best preying on the ignorant and stupid to line up their pockets. Come on guy do some critical thinking instead of aligning your selves with these stupid political parties who exploit you.