But Bob, the biggest obstacle for anyone changing anything in regards to climate change is their belief in the bible. The republicans refuse to accept the possibility that dumping toxic material into the air and the water table and the ocean won't make our existence impossible at some point. We kill 40 MILLION sharks a year! how many do you think there are? about 10 more years worth. In Japan 300 TONS of radio active material is spilling into the sea every day! What do the Japanese eat primarily in their diet and where does it come from? The current is going to be carrying that radioactive material across the pacific to where? The western coast of the US and Alaska where a huge portion of our seafood comes from.
How do you think we can solve this problem if one of our 2 political parties refuses to admit it even exists? They want to allow companies to police themselves but we all know that Dow has dumped trillions of gallons of poison into the rivers and oceans and if they were given the chance would do so again in an instant, as all the chemical companies would because disposal of their waste is expensive and cuts into their profits.
Dismissing the damage people are doing to our ability to exist is extremely dangerous and a part of why the democrat party is growing and the republicans are shrinking. The absolute refusal to see the dangers that every day people see is outrageous. When you see a power plant with thick black smoke pouring into the sky, remember the old saying, "what goes up must come down" it comes down in the rain, the particles in it settle on the ground, onto crops, we breath it in.
There is a power plant new where I live and they are limited to the # of hours a week that they are allowed to burn coal. It's built right on the gulf of Mexico with a park right next door. The run off pours into the gulf and there's a fishing pier right alongside it where people catch all kinds of stuff. The fish are attracted to the warm water that comes out of the plant in the winter time, especially Manatee. You can catch a huge variety of fish, but you can't eat them. There are warning signs posted all over the pier about it. Thick black smoke pouring into the sky, the waste water they claim to be so clean pouring in tens of millions of gallons into the gulf of Mexico.
To believe that eventually we are going to doom ourselves is ignorant and naive and drastic measures have to be taken now, but with an entire party and special interested pouring as many billions into propaganda as they are pollution, it's a losing battle.