Can a Person Be an Environmentalist and Not Believe in “Global Warming”?
Question: Can a Person Be an Environmentalist and Not Believe in “Global Warming”?
Is it possible for a person to be an environmentalist and not believe in the faith based science of so-called “Global Warming”
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can a person only be a good environmentalist if they believe “Global Warming” is caused by man?
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Answer by datanation17a
Yes. To be an environmentalist, to me, is acting on my desire to do the best I can to not negatively impact on the earth. That can be done through conservation etc..Global Warming is a theoretical construct designed to explain a phenomenon about the effect of the ozone layer on the planet and the contributing factors. Global warming is a belief and to be an environmentalist is a way of life.
I believe so. It’s just a matter of how MUCH of an environmentalist you are.
I consider myself a borderline environmentalist — I don’t litter, I consciously conserve water and I recycle whatever I can. I TRY to buy products made from recycled materials and/or biodegradables. I DO have a SMALL SUV, but I only drive when I can’t get there any other way. I avoid drive-thrus. I do a lot of small things trying NOT to leave a big impact on the environment.
HOWEVER, I don’t buy into the global-warming-is-caused-by-us-and-we-have-to-stop-it-at-all-costs mentality, I believe if it IS happening, it’s a NATURAL cycle that’s happened before and if plants and animals can’t adapt, that’s THEM, not US.
Believing in global warming has nothing to do with faith/religion. If you are truly an environmentalist, you would pay attention to scientific data, to all the articles written by well-respected experts and look around you. Have you seen “An Inconvenient Truth”?
You can see pollution in the water and what it has done. Why is it so hard to believe that pollution/emissions in the air, water and earth can’t affect the weather and climate.
And relative to faith – is this being what God would think of as a “good steward” of his/her creation. There’s no doubt that climate changes over time. But there are always causes or stimulus that move those changes. What we are seeing now is change pushed to a much accelerated measure by man’s calus disregard for taking care of the earth we live in.
I do it every day, if you need support in your belief that man’s activities are causing some serious environmental problems that we can ameliorate (lessen the severity of), and yet at the same time you think the whole greenhouse warming thing is way out of line with reality.
Don’t you hate it when people say you are some sort of greedy oil-baron type because you are a global warming “denier”? (I do not deny warming, I just think the evidence does not support the conclusion that man is primarily responsible for warming, and I do not see how climate change of any type is, a priori, a bad thing, mainly because I do not expect climate to stay unchanged no matter what man does).
The word ‘environmentalist’ is tossed around a lot, and it appears that anyone can call themselves one. When natural curiosities become media headlines it seems their numbers increase rapidly.
There may be some who are earnestly looking for answers and who may not have jumped aboard the global warming bandwagon, but they won’t get the funding or recognition offered by the ‘empire’ for furthering the cause. I think for environmentalists it’s still about going green, so it follows that most would support the global warming scam.
Global Warming is not a “faith-based” belief, it is an objective extrapolation of historical events coupled with current measurements.
However, to answer your question, being an environmentalist has nothing to do with your belief in global warming – it has everything to do with how you treat your self, those around you, and the welfare of the planetary systems.
You can recycle plastics because you are concerned about the possible lack of supply in the future;
You turn off lights not only to minimize your carbon footprint, but to save your wallet too;
Whatever you do, your beliefs and your actions are independent of each other in this case.
Certainly, environmentalism is a mindset. It doesn’t mean you’re always right or wrong, it just means that you view the world as something humans are living within, not just living on. Everyone has the ability to be ignorant about subjects. Now if someone knew the current risks we will possibly face as a result of global warming scenarios, and they did nothing to prevent it, they would probably not be an environmentalist.
Of course it’s possible to be an environmentalist and believe that global warming is a natural cycle.
However, I don’t think it is possible to be an environmentalist and argue that we should continue to focus on expanding our fossil fuel energy sources and consumption, because even if you don’t believe they contribute to global warming, they do contribute indubitably to numerous other environmental problems, from air pollution and acid rain to the devastation caused by coal mining and oil spills.
Likewise with other aspects of the AGW debate. Deforestation and conventional livestock raising (i.e. CAFOs and factory farms) are two of the other primary suspects in AGW, but both cause numerous other environmental problems such as loss of biodiversity, desertification, erosion, and groundwater pollution as well.
So in practice, if you’re a genuine environmentalist, you should be working for some of the same goals (i.e. Reduce Reuse Recycle) as proponents of AGW, just for different reasons.
yea. science is usually is correct, but sometimes there is a mistake in the information they have thats y they have to update every science book they have ever printed. An enviromentalist is some one who cares for the eviroment. If u care for the enviroment but not belive in global warming your still an enviromentalist
Of course.
Caring about the environment doesn’t mean you need to believe things that are false. You can even like industry that is responsible, logging that is done responsibly and in hunting that is done responsibly.
If by “environmentalist” you mean a conservationist…absolutely. I am one.
the difference is which type are you speaking of. First you have the real environmentalist who studies and learns the environment and its interactions like Charles darwin did. Then you have the save the smallest twig type that have brought about the crowded forest situation where there is more brush and trees than the natural environment can support leading to the massive brush fires that have plagued the world recently.
The first type is good and helps everybody live better lives in a more productive and sensible world. The second type is the reason for wars and disasters that have crippled humanities civilizations since we left the caves that this type were so happy with. Most of our current environmentalists including the AGW/GCC crowd are of the second disaster causing crowd because they keep trying to interfere in natural events that we have no control over. And in doing this they prevent the more advanced first type from making things better and moving the race into the future.
Very good question. “Environmentalists” have given professional “Environmentalists” a bad name. When I was in the school of Environmental Engineering at the U of F, we were proud to be called Environmentalists. We considered ourselves Engineers and Scientists.
Then the PC types took over the job of “Environmentalist” and the media picked it up. Anybody, no matter their education or expertise can now use the title. It is just fine to base your position on feelings or whatever the latest PC position is.
I now call myself an Engineer. I don’t want anything to do with what the latest PC fad is. I am interested in facts accurate data, and logic.
No. I believe that one of the criterias of being an environmentalist is blind faith in the prophets. The prophets say global warming is a environmental disaster, and you must believe them.
Absolutely……I don’t want anything dumped in anyone’s back yard or the air; ( well, I can think of something I’d like to see dumped in Al’s back yard!) and I especially think its stupid to be burning oil for energy…..not because of “Global Warming” but because of where that money goes…Iran, Saudi, Venezuela, and we need that oil for plastics and fertilizers without which modern civilization stops.
Yes, a person can be an environmentalist and not believe “global warming” that based on poor climate models that cannot represent natural forcings properly.