Reply #25: Thank you for your wonderful response [View All]

[RestoreGore]

I'll be looking that article up. And in response to your other comments, I try everyday regardless of what I read or see to have hope. However, I admit there is a dwindling of it of late as I see people still not even trying to understand the consequences of their actions. I was taught from a young child to understand what happens as a result of my actions and the repercussions good or bad fo them. I was taught to be inquisitive and not just accept what is told to me, and to NEVER EVER blindly trust government regardless of party, because that is not what Democracy is all about.

Therfore, living in this world today where it seems so many do none of those things is very frustrating because the results of it are being seen now. Will that moral ephiphany suddenly strike us as a global community to turn this around? I used to think it would happen on its own, but now I am beginning to believe there will have to be a catastrophic environmental event that triggers it, and then depending on the event it will be too late to do anything about it.

Some people I have talked to still do not believe that part of the Greenland ice shelf can fall into the ocean and raise sea level enough to cover the Florida coast. They think the world is too huge for them to have any effect on it. I sometimes do not know if that is just ignorance, or willful denial to get out of responsibility for doing anything to try to mitigate it. However, there are as you stated good people here as well who are doing all they can to help turn this around, or at least prolong the worst effects. So while I may have lost some hope, I do believe we have to do all we can now to try to turn at least the most catastrophic effects of climate change around to the point that our chilsren and theirs will have a shot at it, even if we are demonized for it.