No Exit: Ecological Limits and Climate Change

“What country is the largest source of global warming pollution?

The United States. Though Americans make up just 4 percent of the world's population, we produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- by far the largest share of any country. In fact, the United States emits more carbon dioxide than China, India and Japan, combined. Clearly America ought to take a leadership role in solving the problem. And as the world's top developer of new technologies, we are well positioned to do so -- we already have the know-how.”

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.asp

The White House only recently accepted that Global Warming is happening
For a long time the facts of Global Warming provided by scientists were altered before publication in order to play down the threat of global warming for the public.
When George W Bush was asked what was being done about the Global Warming, he avoided answering the question and said:
“The Globe is warming. The fundamental debate is, whether it’s man made or natural.”
The power is in the Governments hand and we only get the pieces of information that were chosen for us, the ones we are allowed to know. For a long time there was confusion about Global Warming being real or not. It is real, now we know that!
Scientists were and are being controlled by the government and are being silenced if they have something inconvenient to say to the public.
This is how I see it: Scientists have the facts Designers have the skill to provide it to the public in ways that the Government would not intertwine.
However this raises debate whether the public would believe anything that is not evidenced in great detail for them and if is not published in a daily newspaper on the front page? It is important to raise credibility in our society and with designs spread the word that global warming can be slowed down and probably the Earth can sustain itself for a little longer, than it can with the climate changes of today. Yes, the government has the power to do something about this, but we can all do our little bits to try and make it better. To communicate these ways and to make being friendly for the environment an attractive and if possible a fashionable option is the designers job.

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Sources:
Climate Conspiracy or Global Catastrophe – BBC 4 (14-03-2006)
Panorama: Global Warming – BBC 1 (04-06-2006)