ENN: Fight Brews Over How to Address Climate Change

Now that it is official -- humans are almost certainly causing the most dramatic climate shift the planet has seen in thousands of years -- it is time to stop arguing and get down to the serious work of solving the problem, right?

This is a good article from ENN (link in title) about what's going on right now with politics about global warming. I really hope our next president is (tons) more forceful about creating laws to lower green house gas emissions and finding other, more eco-friendly sources of fuel, because, honestly, I think this is the biggest problem the global community is facing right now. Everything else can pretty much wait. And a lot of other issues, such as aspects of poverty (if you look at the environmental justice theory, for example), are tied to environmental issues. But Bush believes that a free market economy will regulate everything, and uh, sorry, so far it hasn't. A lot more needs to be done.

Yeah, of course no one wants a drop in our standards of living which is what will probably have to happen if we as a nation become serious about slowing/stopping (is that possible?) global warming, but it's pretty selfish to have the mindeset that I'm not going to change my lifestyle, that I need to have four cars for my family and air conditioning keeping me at 65 degrees all summer -- forget about future generations. But it's also going to be hard for people to change unless there's a massive force around it, I mean, realistically, who wants to be the only one sweating all summer and riding their bike to the grocery store? Being able to pat yourself on the back only gets most people so far. We like following the crowd, so in order to change the mindesets of crowd, laws need to be put in place.