What event would most "drive" you to change your driving habits?

I think the really scary thing here is the rising of C02 and greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, and I believe that the reason that the majority of people right now have voted that rising gas prices is a more driven event than C02, or rising sea levels is that people don't know the essential and critical factors of global warming, and how CO2 is drastically affecting us in our everyday lives, and not only do rising gas prices affect us as individuals. but CO2 emissions affect us on a greater level. So what I think is that people are suffering from insufficient amounts of information, sure pretty much anyone nowadays has access to a computer with everything you need to know about CFLs to offshore drilling, but some people are not motivated to take action, some don't want to go the trouble, some don't take it as serious, because they don't know the effects and complications that will arise, so we should be shouting this from the rooftops, "Don't believe the hype! Global warming is real and its now and before we know its gonna get us all, everyone should know that we are ones to blame, and we are the ones that need to take action, everyone,(absolutely everyone) should know the number 350! (the most important number in the world), everyone is got to know! Of course we know that this in an impossible task, not everybody is gonna be on the same train here, at least not willingly, but if we attack the majority and popularity streams, then we rule by the majority vote, and who knows maybe one day we might not even call it "going green", it'll just be a way of life. we must not be afraid of change, for change is tradition and the time for change is now.

http://www.350.org/

"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs, but not enough for every one's greed." - Mahatma Gandhi

Great post, Joe,

This could be subtitled: What is it going to take for America to wake up? The scary thing here is that all but one of the above triggers already exist and are under the noses of all in the nation. The last, rising sea level in the living room is becoming more common. Hopefully, we will mend our ways before the last criteria becomes an everyday occurance.

Bob Ferris
Executive Director
Yestermorrow Design/Build School