Here in the US about half the population disregards it as a communist leftist scheme to instill fear and make money, while about a quarter really (including me) thinks that it is occurring. What’s it like in other countries and areas? What’s your opinion?
Edit: I know this is a really serious topic for a game forum, but I was curious
The apocalypse. Nuff said.
In all seriousness i think it’s a real thing and people are letting it happen because in order to stop it, they would have to actually get up and do something about it.
People can believe all they want, we have a garbage president, JEWS CONTROL THE MEDIA. BUSH DID 9/11…
Not sure if you’re saying there’s idiots believing lots of stupid things, or defending the right of people being idiots.
I mean I’d normally assume the first one, but the US have a thing for defending people being idiots and calling it free speech.
There’s a difference between having laws against free speech, and pandering to morons. The US does an enormous amount of pandering.
THAT’S A THING?!?!
And if it is then WTF does it affect?
People are dumb
EDIT: Here goes my 1000 post
I’d say, based on my own experience, Sweden seems to take it quite seriously. I know I do atleast.
@darlingClaymore you are joking, right?[/quote]
no I’m serious… DANK MEMES DUDE, DANK DANK EVERYWHERE
Stop overgeneralizing ignorant outsider, you have no been blessed by the hotdogs and bacon.
You are talking on a gaming forum. People here play for hours, and days at a time. We are the reason this planet is burning to the ground.
As a famous man once said:
“I believe the world is burning to the ground, oh well. I guess we’re gunna find out, just how far we’ve come, and just how far we’ll go.”
Also, here is the song, because it’s a great song.
Having lived in three separate European countries in the past 25 years I can safely say that European countries are taking environmental issues quite seriously, especially with the directives imposed by the European parliament.
It ranges from subsidizing the purchase of solar panels, to the country wide incentive of trash separation. Levels of separation varies between countries, but cardboard and glass are a common denominator, then some separate paper and metal, while others collect biological trash separately for fertiliser production. In any case, every trash that is recycled is a lower cost in raw materials, hence lower energy requirements and therefore lower CO2 emissions.
Nowadays, at least in Luxembourg, buildings get energy ratings, such as fridges and other utility products already get, and you cannot build anything new under a certain grade. I myself only use low consumption lamps in my home and have all my electronics connected to a switch based extension cord, as to shut everything off before going to sleep, instead of leaving them on stand-by. It saves on the environment and on the energy bill at the end of the month.
Many countries are investing massively in renewable energy production. Portugal has already maxed out its dam building sites, while Spain is building many pilot solar power plants. Germany has almost, if not crossed already, the 20% renewable energy production. Iceland is aiming for a 100% renewable energy production, relying heavily on its geothermal resources. Denmark is building immense sea based windmill parks. Alternative ways of saving on energy are being thought all over. There are tests performed with wave energy gathering as well as public buildings’ air conditioning being tied together to heat one building while cooling the other.
Likewise, although oil from fracking has been a huge thing in the US and lately in Poland, countries such as the U.K. and France have banned it from their country as there is no knowledge yet on the possible environmental implications. Also, after the Fukushima incident, Germany is completely abandoning its nuclear power program.
Regarding one of the major CO2 production sources, cars, every European car maker is joining the ballet of proposing an electric car, but the high cost of buying a new one is still a barrier for many people.
In the end, I’d say there is a general awareness in Europe and also a sense of us being the shepherd. Emerging countries have no time for environmental considerations, while the US seems to be on the fence, so we feel like we have to be the first to show how its done. Unfortunately, with the financial crisis the initial research boost and governmental spending for renewables’ support has decreased and it seems it will take longer now than ever to reach acceptable CO2 emission rates within the time frame allocated to not heat our planet.
So in my opinion, global warming is happening and will keep on going. The measures to stop it fully have not been taken and will not be taken in a timely fashion. Therefore we will see more natural disasters happen over the world, such as tornados, droughts, heat waves, cold waves, etc. The only thing we can do is all chip in where we can and reduce our emissions by a little, every day. Walk to the bakery instead of taking the car if it is within walking distance, take the bus or car pooling instead of driving alone to work, shut down the lights in rooms where we are not, favour unprocessed food over processed one, consider buying the gold rated PSU when building a PC instead of the no efficiency rating one, etc.
“US being on the fence” is putting it nicely. Half the republicans think global warming is left propaganda. Or pretend to anyways.
Don’t even get me started on how full retard the entire US government and political topography is. Over here, the entire Republican party would be considered extremists classed a danger to democracy.
You call the Democrats “left”, really you have no idea what left even means.
America being stubborn because of the right wing party is what it boils down too.
I mean the left wing is just as toxic and unhealthy for us, just in different ways, but at least it’s slightly closer to reality.
Democrats aren’t too bad, I’m hoping Bernie Sanders gets elected cause he seems to be aware of all the bullshit going on over here.
But all the people who try and sit there and pretend climate change isn’t a thing, I really wanna fucking punch them. How can you ignore the signs? What kind of drugs are you taking?
Also, Jon Stewart did it best
What DIDN’T he do best?
On the questions what drugs they’re on. It’s called Lobby bribes. The industry makes less money if they have to lower emmissions. So they pay the politicians to stonewall the shit they don’t like so this years profit margin looks better to the shareholders or some bullshit like that.
Everyone in that room knows it. Yet they still have to play pretend, because calling them out on their bullshit is apparently rude or something. I sure don’t get it.