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Global Warming: Is it a Wasted Debate? (page 2)

In order to achieve that goal, they must get out of the scientific jargon and into straight talk. That doesn�t mean to end their scientific research, but to simplify for people, the way politicians do. President Bush won the election over Al Gore largely because people remembered his slogans over Gore�s complex explanations and delineations. People remembered �uniter, not divider� instead of �I have worked with�.�, followed by some long complex explanation. The debate must simplify. The focus of the message should be formed around simple aspects of daily life. It should focus around just the simplicity of the proven, that poisoning our food and water and air is bad. People die from it. Poisoning our ground means poisoning our water and food. Our water and food is what keeps us alive, if that cannot be ensured, we cannot be ensured.

By simplifying the message and bringing it to our everyday lives, it may have greater impact and persuasive value. Most people know there is a debate over global warming. They know that global warming is bad and that pollution causes it. Most people don�t know why it causes it. Most people don�t know if it is scientific fact or conjecture. Most people don�t know what the impact of global warming is and why it effects their daily lives. By simplifying, people can relate to the impact of poisoning food, water, and air. People can see the air in many major cities. Imagine that...they can see the air. On a warm summer day, no fog in sight, no clouds anywhere, a day of fun and play�they can see the air. And yet we still continue to ignore it.

The water we drink is an ever-decreasing supply. Oh you can see plenty of oceans, but amazingly, drinking water�fresh water is in short supply globally. Water is being polluted by toxins in the soil, leaking fuel from our automobiles, dumping in rivers or lakes. While the problems have decreased in the obvious places, it has continued as a practice of corporations. Leaking containers, buried in dirt, will seep to the drinking water tables under the ground that provide much of the water in our wells. Remember that same water is used to water our food to make it grow. That same dirt and water tables are used to grow our food. Those same toxins show up in our food.

This is just the surface of the problem. But it is a method that the environmentalists can get their point across to people to gain support. It can raise awareness and raise the consciousness of people about what goes on around them. It can make them begin to look for solutions to the problems rather than ignore them out of fear or lack of conclusive evidence. It can bring the choices down to their children and their children�s health. Global warming will never be seen in terms of people�s children because it is an impact that people cannot imagine. However, poisoning of food, water and air, and the impact of those on the children of people is something they can imagine�it is something they can relate to�it is something that may make them realize they run the companies that are doing this. It may be the first step to a solution to pollution and global warming, but in steps that people can deal with. The time to act is now, before it is too late, and before global warming can be proven to be a reality.
                                                                             -GFI 2/24/01

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