Action needed against global warming
A few posts ago I shared the letter I wrote that was published last November in the Wausau Daily Herald. They asked me to comment on what inspired me to write. this is what I told them:
I’ve been following science on global warming since I was 14 years old. (I’m 52 now.) I understand the science underpinning global warming inside out backward and forward.
It is as counter-intuitive to think you can add carbon dioxide to the earth’s atmosphere and not raise the temperature as it is to think you could throw a down comforter on someone and think you’re not going to make them warm.
(To combat global warming), the first thing we need to do is to stop building stupid boxes. That’s what I call modern houses (which lose a lot of energy.) the building code needs a radical remake. We need to change the code for housing construction. Second thing we need to do is make funding available for upgrading existing homes, And the third thing is to get serious about electric vehicles.
We can make electricity domestically, but we can’t produce more oil domestically. We simply cannot drill our way out of this. There’s not enough oil on the planet to meet future demand. We can make electricity from a wide variety of sources, but we can only get oil from the Saudis and the Venezuelas of the world.
People aren’t taking this seriously. My generation and I are leaving a legacy for my children and grandchildren. I believe we have to live by the saying: We do not inherit the earth from our parents; we’re borrowing it from our children.
-Dan Michelsen
Tags: electricity, energy, global warming, oil, renewable energy
February 14th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental issue that we face these days. the long term effects of these environmental changes to a nations economy is quite damaging. there would be a shortage in food supply as well as on water supply too.