Predicting the Future: Environmental Apocalypse by 2050?
Friday, July 16, 2010 at 12:00AM 
Can you predict which group of Americans is most worried about an environmental Apocalypse?
Pssst! There’s a big hint in the photo above!
All this week, we’ve reported some startling news: If Americans’ predictions about the future come true, we may have to reset our assumptions about “Apocalypse 2012“—to 2050. Many Americans foresee the Second Coming of Christ by 2050, along with a new world war.
Today, please tell us what you think about the danger of an environmental calamity.
What did the April poll by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine turn up? When it coms to environmental concerns, the assumptions all depend on which group you ask. Who is most pessimistic? The young! Of course, pollsters couldn’t ask children, but collectively our young adults, ages 18 to 29, are most worried. Three of four in that youthful group say the world’s oceans will be less healthy than today, and that the earth will get warmer. The April poll was taken before the extent of the BP oil disaster was known, so I’m sure the young are even more pessimistic now.
Does political affiliation make a difference? Yes! Republicans are more much optimistic about the long-term health of the environment than Democrats are. Only 37% of Republicans say the U.S. will face water shortages, compared with 56% of Democrats. Only 48% Republicans say the earth will get warmer, compared with 83% of Democrats. Compared with eleven years ago, Republicans today are even cooler about the prospect of global warming. In a May 1999 survey, 68% of Republicans predicted that the world will get warmer—so we’ve seen a drop of 20 percentage points in just over a decade. Similarly, a 2009 Pew Center poll reports a decline in the number of Republicans who believe there is solid evidence that the earth’s temperatures are rising.
What are your predictions about global warming in the next 40 years?
Do you side with the Republicans or the Democrats?
Will temperatures rise? Stay the same? Or fall?
As we end this week, add your thoughts about what the next 40 years will bring!
Please add a “Comment” below before you go.
Reader Comments (2)
“Do you side with the Republicans or the Democrats?”
I side with the scientific data and the scientists conclusions. Unlike my Republinut Brethren, I am not a Luddite and believe that science is useful.
“Will temperatures rise? Stay the same? Or fall?”
Overall, the earth will warm, but some places the temps will stay about the same, and in some places they will get warmer, And yet in other places, they temps will fall. But the overall mean temperature will continue a slow steady march toward higher
I received an e-mail about a new documentary, 'The Nature Of Existence", by Roger Nygard, Director.
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"Why are we here, and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe, and was it a mistake or purposeful event? Does God exist, and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives?" Roger Nygard, Director.
High Tech Science can answer the Questions about how Life began on Earth, recorded in Genesis 1,2, but there is No Way the Human Species can explain how the LIFE Elements began that made the Universes, Galaxies, Solar Systems and Planets. I call this Unknown Element GOD, not the Religious Gods 'in our image and likeness', who are the High Tech Human Male and Female Clones from Space.
The Original Humans on Earth were not Reproduced by Heterosexual Sex, the Original Sin on Earth. When they Reproduced Children, the Sexual Sin of the Asexual Adam and Eve Colony, was paramount to all phases of the Fallen Killer Lifestyle of Inequality of the Male and Female and Generation Birth, Death, and Rebirth began on Earth.
Today we do Know High Tech Science can project, how to Colonize a Watery Atmosphere Planet like Earth was 'in the beginning', like Venus is today. We also know how Mars does not have an Atmosphere is is barren of LIFE. That is what Earth will be like, After the Planetary Fire, destroys our Eco System and Ozone Canopy, set down by our Overpopulated High Tech Human Species, the past 100 years.
It is Past Time on Earth for a High Tech Translation of All Supernatural Religious and Myth Writings. Why are High Tech Humans today still translating Scripture and Myth as Supernatural, instead of by High Tech Science Knowledge of Gods, supernaturally 'up there and out there' talking to us?
I have many post on my Profile Page, explaining a High Tech translation of Supernatural Religious and Myth writings of Colonization and Reproduction of the Female from the Male Rib. High Tech Humans again, have that God/Us Asexual Human High Tech Clone Helpmeet Knowledge today. But it is mostly opposed by Religious Humans, as Humans trying to be like the Religious Gods.
Why not use our High Tech Science for Good for All Life Species on Earth, instead of for the Evil 'Arm'ageddon Nuclear War, and Planetary Judgment Day Fire that is in progress the past 100 years? Is it Time to Literally Understand and accept the High Tech Writing on the 'Wall' on Facebook, by Religious and Atheists Humans?
This High Tech Clone Birth Process, and the High Tech Noah/Atlantis Planetary Flood, are the first steps to Understand and Accept the High Tech Science Knowledge in All Religious Scriptures and Myths.
The Religious and Myth Man-Made Gods 'in our image' are our High Tech Ancestor Asexual Male/Female Clones from Space, 'supernaturally up there and out there'. The Many Earth Gods are not the GOD that made the Universe Elements and All Life as we Know it, with our High Tech Science today.
How can a Human Being God Species of Religion, or even a High Tech Human Being today, made from LIFE Elements, make the Living LIFE Elements?