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...would be hard, to say the least, for the U.S. to do alone. ???

Is this sarcasm??? I was under the impression from the media (so it could be wrong) that the US Government was doing sweet FA about global warming...or to be more specific was doing it's darndest to increase it's contribution to global warming !

I'd be only too please to be corrected on this.
Del

Fair enough...

The more I think of it the more I completely disagree with the title of the thread...

Surely grassroots activity will be the driver of commercial ventures and will eventually tip the balance?

If supply and demand really works we will get our cheaper solar panels and workable electric cars ...ok the big breakthrough in batteries still isn't here but the effort being spent on looking for it is increasing ... hmmm my furry brain hurts ... must have a nap.

Del

Good answer. I recently received an email commending the Bolivian President for preaching socialism as a defence against environmental harm, a hilarious joke given the poor environmental record of Marxist states. The email came from the same conspiracy theorists I'm always slamming (it's mass email from an environmental newsgroup I subscribe to), which just goes to prove what their true agenda really is. It's not freedom of speech, social justice nor saving the planet that they really want, it's imposing Marxism on people who are understandably worried for their future.

At least the grassroots have stopped just talking and complaining about it. The grass roots has realized that the "they" in "They aught to do something about that" is, in reality, the "they" who are doing something about it. It just so happens that I worked my entire life in the petrochemical and power industry. I am now retired and in my little way, I have become one of the grassroots "they". Or at least, I am trying. It just so happens that I live in the most polluted city in the most polluted nation on earth. The United States has just 5% of the world's population, yet contributes 25% of the atmosphere's pollution, and Houston, Texas, a outdated center of fossil fuel refining, has become the most polluted city in the United States.

Gosh, "They aught to do something about that!" Well, I am trying. I am active in CR4's sustainability projects and I am active in the United States national politics for the first time in my life, all at the GRASSROOTS level. Just keep in mind, we, in this nation, have a bloodless revolution built into our political system and we are deep into the process at this current time, to terminate in this upcoming November. Out with the old, in with the new!!

Maybe you are talking about all that carbon that is in the gunpowder being used in Iraq? That's bound to be warming up the earth a little. And don't forget about China. They are the ones buying a lot of cars.

I have read about grassroots, looked at them, and they don't show any alarm.

Kind Regards....

Climate change is beyond fixing or stopping by humans. Our part in it is so negligible that if we all vanished tomorrow, the climate would still get warmer. "Doing something" is just a way to feel good, less guilty about existing.

Do what is economical to do if you want, but there are more important things to clean up. And since one volcano can put out more CO2 than Man does in a year, why not "do something" about volcanoes? Since you emit 2.5 lbs of CO2 per day by breathing, stop breathing, then you'll stop polluting and warming the planet. Side benefit; we won't have to listen to your nonsense. LOL