Originally Posted by will dehne
I like your post and want to add my two cents.
There is no doubt that some people use this issue to make money. While doing that they will not be intellectually honest but exaggerate or downplay what does not fit their agenda.
I make no money on this issue but like my outdoors. Mountain climbing is/was a lifelong passion. The glaciers are disappearing. It is BS to deny that.
Claiming that the human race is the cause of that is another subject, and not so obvious. There is also a question as to what reasonably we can do or not. JMHO.
I've been doing a lot of reading on this subject lately and I have to agree what you say in the last paragraph. If you watch a lot of television coverage of this issue, you get the impression that if we stopped driving gasoline-fueled cars, things would be alright...
If you read a little deeper, read some serious books on the subject, this conclusion is maybe a little optimistic. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that we may not be able to do very much. I hope this is wrong, but it may be so.