In Lexington there isn't a good public transportation system, we aren't a small town, but the people here won't pay extra in taxes to keep up a bus system they don't use. I'd bet the majority of the country is in a situation where they don't have a good public transportation system.
There are plenty of good ideas about ways to cut back, but people in general aren't happy with that, we need to find a solution that for much the same price allow us to do the things we do today. People know they need to cut back, they just don't want to. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:53 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: so...there's no such thing as global warming? > > Ours is one of the richest nations in the world, and you're going to > use the excuse that it's too expensive to do anything?? How about > actually *buying* more efficient cars...rather than SUVs and Hummers? > Cars than are actually less expensive too. How about car pooling or > using public transportation? Another big money saver that would hugely > reduce the greenhouse emissions if even half of commuters did it. How > about passing laws that require our industries to be more fuel > efficent...particularly the car industry which is quite capable of > making more efficient cars (as they do in other nations where the laws > require it). How about turing the heat *down* a few degrees, saving > both energy bills as well as fossil fuels? > > The problem is that we are in general apathetic to the issues when they > inconvenience us. It's not that we *can't* make a big difference in the > amount of greenhouse emissions, it's that we don't bother too. > > You want some ideas, just do a search on something like "global warming > what can we do" and you'll find dozens of sites with information about > how much we *can* do rather than just stick our heads in the sand and > say, oh well, we need to use fossil fuels regardless so why bother ove > how *much* we use them. > > >We can't tell people they can't have kids, or start limiting the > >children people have, that is simply not something this country can > do. > > Huh?? The global overpopulation issue has little to do with people > *wanting* to have kids. Generally the birth rate in industrial nations > (such as ours) has decreased and the population for the most part (not > counting immigration) remains steady. It's in third world countries it > is steadily climbing. There is certainly much on this issue you can > find through google as well. > > > --- Mary Jo > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223963 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
