India is a country faced with many problems but is global warming the most important? I hardly think it is. It would be criminal to pump billions of dollars into fighting global warming when the same can be used to feed the poor in this country. The unfortunate truth about global warming is that most people, including some scientists do not understand it . Today, environmental hardliners use global warming to explain any and all climate anomalies. Just as the "Inconvenient Truth" advocates global warming, also Michael Crichton's novel "State Of Fear" attacks it and presents supporting evidence for the same. This book not only shows how little we know about global warming, but also highlights how badly we have handled environmental issues in the past......
RE:how important is global warming
by Ram Sharma on Jun 05, 2007 10:43 AM Permalink
with increasing population and enrgy consumption, global warming is definitely the biggest problem of the day. WE MUST FOLLOW ONE CHILD NORM LIKE CHINA TO CONTROLPOPULATION GROWTH. I WOULD EVEN LIKE TO FIND WAYS OF REDUCING POPULATION. WE WERE 33 CRORES IN 1947, AFTER 60 YEARS WE R 105 CRORES.
RE:RE:how important is global warming
by Shahryar Pax on Jun 18, 2007 12:01 AM Permalink
Excerpt from The Skeptical Environmentalist Replies: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000001E0-157B-1CD4-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2 The Kyoto Protocol will do very little good%u2014it will postpone warming for six years in 2100. Yet the cost will be $150 billion to $350 billion annually. Because global warming will primarily hurt Third World countries, we have to ask if Kyoto is the best way to help them. The answer is no. For the cost of Kyoto in just 2010, we could once and for all solve the single biggest problem on earth: We could give clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on the planet. This would save two million lives and avoid half a billion severe illnesses every year. And for every following year we could then do something equally good.
RE:how important is global warming
by ganesh on Jun 05, 2007 10:23 AM Permalink
why don't we cut down subsidies? why don't we cut down defence expenses? why don't we look into corruption problem? this cab save lot of money. im not saying we shud not care for poor and hungry ppl. global warming is equally imp as india will be the country to face the worst consequences of global warming in south asia.
