Why spend billions of dollars making wind farms that can only be used when it's windy? Why start using "water-efficient" toilets that clog the minute anything solid goes into them? Why use hybrid cars that are more expensive to maintain, have poor fuel economy, and don't save much at all? Why use ethanol fuel as an alternative to fossil when the emissions are just as bad and production is largely impractical? The question I'm trying to raise here is: Is it worth it? If we had ireffutable proof that we were causing global warming and the planet would explode in 10 years, oh and "findings" and "commissions" looked at both sides of the story, and articles didn't have to exagerate facts, oh and graphs didn't have to be overweighted...then, maybe then, it would be worth it. But as of now?...Lets stop the public panic and donate that money to poor children in africa. Because, I'm sorry, but I fail to see how spending billions of dollars to "try" to lower earth's temperature by 1 degree is worth more than a human life. In response to your edits: I agree absolutely the environment shouldn't be abused. Personally I turn off all lights when I'm not using them, eat a lot of vegetables(as opposed to meat), take the bus/bike 95% of the travelling I do, try to minimize my waste. But I do that because I don't want to abuse our environment, not because I'm sold into some media-induced panic.