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Originally Posted by cobraboy
As a former Boy Scout and lifetime outdoorsman, I have always followed one simple, but effective, rule: leave the campsite better than how you found it. This includes our carbon-based orb. We'd all be better off if we just followed that one simple policy.
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I too was a Boy Scout and am a lifelong camper, as is my son now (almost an Eagle). You forget the other part of the Boy Scout credo: be prepared. That, I think, should be guiding how we look at the global climate change debate: hope that the predictions are wrong -- at least in severity or timelines -- but prepare as if they may not be.
I have teenage kids, and I wonder what world they and their own kids are going to have. I know, I know, I must be one of those wanting to rule the world by caring about such things, right? Nope. I do think, though, about what it would be like to have my grandkids some day ask me why my generation sat on its hands and debated every fine point about global climate change instead of acting to take what steps they can while they still can, based on best knowledge at the time and steps that make good sense for other reasons (like the examples I gave before, higher energy & fuel efficiency, more use of renewable energy sources, reduction of wasting and waste, etc.)