Maybe we can’t.

Perhaps Global Warming is happening regardless of our presence here.

Or maybe our presence does contribute to it, but the only way to make a real impact – to stop global warming or even just to slow it down – is to live a life that we can’t live anymore, a life that we don’t want to live – a life without automobiles, airplanes or any other type of polluting, energy-consuming industry.

Can humanity go back to being a non-industrialized society?

Maybe Huffington Post’s Gazelle Emami is right – maybe all these efforts to recycle, reuse, consume responsibly are just a drop in the ocean, maybe we are wasting our time, soothing our conscience but making little impact. Maybe we need to stop driving cars, stop having kids, stop flying.

Maybe if we simply cease to exist, Earth can be saved… no doubt humans are polluting and draining Earth of its precious resources. But then again, maybe Earth is doomed to heat up and disappear underwater regardless of what humans do (though it could certainly take much longer without our contribution).

Looking at the Huffington Post’s 7 ways to truly make an impact, some of them are actually doable, especially when modified. Buying local, limiting meat intake (they say “go vegetarian”), choosing a hybrid car (rather than not owning a car) and purchasing carbon offsets when flying to name a few.

Whatever you’ve been doing, don’t stop doing it – reusable shopping bags, energy efficient lighting, insulating your home, composting, turning the heating down in the winter and the cooling in the summer, taking shorter showers – all of these do add up, especially if we all do them.

If we do nothing, many of us will likely not be here to experience the devastation that global warming will cause, but our children will.

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Interesting Comment: “Huffington Post’s Gazelle Emami is a simpleton. If everyone just followed her step #6 – “Don’t Have A Baby” – then the rest wouldn’t matter, would it? The “Human” problem would just take care of itself in a 100 years or so.” Computer Addict.

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