07-06-2009, 08:06 PM
Quote:What you mean with ''if we didn't do it we can't help it'' probably refers to a completely different cause.I'll admit that wasn't very clear, so let me try to explain.
If the global warming is not caused by human activities, but exclusively by solar activity, earth polarisation, planetairy trajectories, or whatever, I don't think we will be able to do something about it for quite some time to come. I agree with you, though, that this doesn't mean we shouldn't try. Someone has to start somewhere, after all.
If we did cause it, it's just another ecological effect of our egoisitic behaviour. Maybe addressing it has a higher priority as other problems, it's hard to tell. But once we 'fix' it, people will pretend there never was a problem, blame the ones who cleaned up the mess for wasting their time, and it will start all over again.
Maybe we should just let it happen, this time. Sure, people in underdeveloped countries will suffer the most, but they are also the ones already most used to suffering. People in our countries, however, will propably think the world collapsed if prices just doubled.