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[alark]

Al Gore said it best: There is a community of corporations out there who don't want us to question and push for better environmental controls. In the early 90s there was a push to be "green" and environmental. But now, politics and corporations have both done their part to curb that mentality. How?

They have made the public think that the question of global warming is still being debated in scientific circles. Maybe it's happening, maybe it's el nino, maybe it's not happening and this is just a normal trend. So we get more relaxed, we don't have to worry too much yet because it's not "official".

The real truth is that across the board, scientists (who have this background and are currently in the field) agree that global warming is occuring.

I highly recommend that people go out and rent this movie. It's alarming, eye opening. The corporations are using the old tactics that the tobacco company used to deny that smoking causes cancer. These companies argued for years that it was "inconclusive" that cancer kills. And managed to keep this debate going for years and meanwhile people were lulled into thinking it was still okay.

So I just encourage everyone to watch it. And try to make the small or big changes in their life that will keep this planet going for longer then 25 years!

[Hoss]

It's quite a very interesting movie Alark! I downloaded a copy iof it some time recently...I was suprised to know it was presented by Al Gore A Politician who was nominated before as a Vice President( As far as I remember)

[Ricky]

Same people were saying that smoking was not only bad for ya but it would increase your lung capacity :shock: :evil: and now that global warming is the biggest "hysteria of the 21st century". These people actually belong to the American Science Academy (whatever the proper name of the organization is!) and were handsomely paid some "consulting" fees by tobacco companies back in the day...unbiased opinions so to speak :wink: So what do you expect from them now??!!!!
it is funny that global warming evidence is just glaring into everybody's faces. It gets warmer but people still complain about weather when there is no even snow ever in climates where it used to be piles and piles just 10 years ago. Who cares about terrorists and global war on terror really after that... :roll:

did i say that such articles are now written not only in environment related and "green" magazines but in "VOGUE".... 8) Good thing it is in fashion these days to talk "green". it is about time

[Ricky]

Western countries have relatively ok environmental laws and it is one of the reasons why it is cheaper to do business elsewhere. Manufacturing is cheaper in countries such as China, India (not much manufacturing industries as of yet), Asia, Russia, etc not only because there is access to cheaper labor but there is also lack of environmental laws to comply with and thus operating costs are much lower because you do not have OSHA watching you and people whistleblowing about anything. China, Russia, India lack all kinds of environmetal compliance laws. China will demand so much energy in the years to come, the green effect of its continuing growth would be tremendous. Russians only care about salmon and whales :roll: :oops: only when it comes to grab a controling stake from Shell and such like there is any salmon left after the negligence of the environment after years of Soviet rule and as if Shell could really ruin it more than Soviet Union or Russia would 8) not to mention human rights activists and environmentalists are not really popular :roll: but for now they serve the purpose. and tomorrow is another day :twisted: what is convenient today is inconvenient tomorrow :wink: nothing is sinister relatively. In the age of moral relativism, absolutes are extinct