Environmental Cause to Fight

How come there is no middle ground when it comes to the climate and the global warming debate? Liberals want the awareness and the taxes. Conservatives deny it. There is the cause and the fight. And there is the denial and the rhetoric.


How do we know who to trust? The scientists converged and said it is definitely happening. Then, some others denied it. Do we have to have a definitive answer about the Earth to know that we are doing horrible things to it? I am not the only one who shudders when I see black smoke coming out of a car or a structure like a refinery or steel plant.


I am sure these scientists are guessing at this point, because they really do not know. They just want to error on the side of major damage since it may be too late by the time they really get some good data. But from the looks of things, they definitely see problems.

The funny thing to me is that both sides represent perspective. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to throw a bunch of money at something we cannot prove is absolutely happening. Being conservative means being smart with your money. We are not going to just throw money at it in hopes that it goes away. To tax the people who do not contribute so much to it as the big businesses and industry in third world countries is ridiculous. People do leave lights on in their house. People do throw away cans. People waste water. But they do not contribute to the pollution that is so prevalent in our world.

But, we are aware of major pollution that man has done before. It does not take a genius to see that big factories and refineries and steel plants really pollute the atmosphere. And there is so much more. Do we tax these companies? What good does that do? Why not help change what they are doing? Why not change the process? And that means more regulation which is more burdensome on small business, but even so, there must be some best practices here.

The only thing I can think that would really help is education. Not hype. Not taxes. Educate the people. Present people with facts on both sides. Concerts do not really help people unless the lyrics have facts in them. There is all this awareness, but how do people trust these wackos on either side? A musician is a musician. A radio talk show host is an entertainer.

I just want to pick up. I want to start small with my house. Then, my neighborhood. It goes from there. Campaign with education, not hype. Enough with the hype...