Man-Made Global Climate Change: So...what's up with that?

[DMiller]

I mean... it shouldn't even really matter. We know that pollution is polluting the environment and makes the world worse for us to live in. Shouldn't that alone be enough for us to want to get rid of as much of it as possible? American air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating halfway around the world from China, and Northeastern US air quality is being ruined by clouds of pollution floating in from Midwestern coal-burning power plants! Considering things like that, or all the evidence of environmental destruction... aside from extremely, extremely short-sighted reasons (like, say, virtually all Republican policies of the past ... many ... decades...), it's hard to see how people could be opposed.

I think this is the key point of the global warming debate. Even if people argue that we aren't the cause of global warming the efforts to stop global warming are efforts to curb pollution, and that can't do anything but help the environment. I hate a lot of the scare tactics that global warming advocates use, but I do agree that we are probably the cause and we should be working to reduce pollution as much as we can.