Comments on: Getting a Green Grip

By: awesome

awesome — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:51:40 +0000

i feel very bad for all those endangered and soon to be extinct animals why can’t they make a space colony that can hold half of the world population so less of the rainforests can be cut down

By: Geico

Geico — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:52:05 +0000

Global Warming is melting our Earth. People need to start thinking about our enviorment.

By: Another Concerned Scouter

Another Concerned Scouter — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:12:25 +0000

It is appalling that so many cannot recognize the distinct difference between Conservation (using only what you need, cleaning up your own mess, use it again if possible, etc.) and Environmentalism, which has become a loose organization of ‘believers’, which are more like religionists.

As the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts continue to slip deeper into the massive efforts to ‘save the planet’, they naturally move away from their pledged and promised “Duty to God” because noone can escape the unspoken alternative that MUST exist, if Global warming were true, that:

1.God, the creator of Heaven and Earth, was out to lunch regarding Carbon Dioxide (CO2-a trace gas which makes up .0003% of our atmospere, a gas that people produce just by exhaling) and therefore is dumber than Al Gore

2. God does not exist

The solution is obvious. God does exist and it is apparent from mankind’s lack of ability to create another universe, that He is infinitely smarter than anyone on earth and therefore any claims made the global warming religionists are admissions of ignorance or admissions of Idolatry.

This organization cannot profess a Duty to God and continue to embark on a path so clearly marked with inconsistencies and fallacies.

I beg the Scouting organizations and Boy’s Life to ignore the incessant hype and hysteria of the current environmental fad and reconsider their positions and policies regarding these weighty issues.

However, if you continue the attempt, there are some of us willing and able to blaze a new trail.

By: smelliott cookie

smelliott cookie — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:17:44 +0000

To avoid global warming, you can recycle. Recycling is very helpful!!!

By: Ellibot 2487

Ellibot 2487 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:18:53 +0000

Everyone knows we can recycle paper. But why doesn’t everybody do it? well, if you don’t recycle, please start because we can make a difference; a HUGE difference. So start recycling now!!!

If you don’t want to recycle, you can help the Earth in other ways to!!!

By: raindeer56723

raindeer56723 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:40:12 +0000

To help the earth i would chose to recycle and shut the water of when i am brushing by teeth or i would use more recycle things than trash.

By: SANTA 2496

SANTA 2496 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:35:38 +0000

If you don’t want global warming to affect you, you can choose to recycle, shut the water off when you brush your teeth, or you take a quick shower or bath.

By: GIVE' EM WATT'S,BOYS!

GIVE' EM WATT'S,BOYS! — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:56:19 +0000

green land was called green land for a reson, IT,WAS,GREEN!!!!

By: ZV

ZV — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:44:26 +0000

globel warmig is never going to happen but we can take better care of are Earth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:22:56 +0000

I am surprised that this topic has generated a level of discord. Conservation of our resources has been around for years and great Americans have been supportive of the cause. Teddy Roosevelt realized that our natural places and resources were not inexhaustible. We know we will run out of oil at some point, why wait until it is gone before we develop an alternative fuel? Conserve, reuse, recycle. These do not sound like radical ideas. Our grandparents practiced these things. They did not through away things after they were used, they fixed them up and used them again. I am not a tree hugging hippie, far from it. It makes fiscal and environmental sense to not waste our resources, global warming or not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:58:15 +0000

CFL bulbs contain toxic mercury and cannot be disposed of in normal trash. They have to go into the special toxic waste collections. If they break in the house, you and your family are exposed to deadly mercury. How can they be better for our home environment?

I oppose your series which is trying to indoctrinate scouts into global warming hysteria. There is no way we are going to reduce carbon emissions just to please all such chicken littles. We need energy for our civilization. Or does BL advocate for the green elites to continue to have a modern lifestyle and everyone else is to become their serfs, living in one place their whole life without electricity? Wind and solar do not drive cars or put enough power into the electric grid.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:56 +0000

If its soppesed to be global warming than why is it gonna snow chacago soppesed to get snow!!!

By: Wozzo the Wonder Dog

Wozzo the Wonder Dog — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:21 +0000

Even if you are not a tree-hugging hippie there is some stuff you can do that will likely help the environment while saving you money. If you tell people to save money by airing up their tires, adding insulation to their attic, and using CFL bulbs they will get on board. I’ve used CFL bulbs for a year and love them. We should all buy an extra pack of CFL bulbs and give them to the poor or the elderly, or donate a pack to our church for distribution. Because of the high initial cost for CFL bulbs the poor/elderly (those who would benefit the most) are least likely to use them.

By: Think Logically

Think Logically — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:15:24 +0000

There are three questions to be asked.

1 Is the planet warming?

2 Are people causing the warming?

3 Is that warming bad?

We would do well to keep these questions separate. If we buy into Global warming hysteria without answering all of these questions the result will be a devastated economy and a government with unconscionable power. No economy ever grew on conservation. Always be suspicious when people tell you that you must do what they say to “Save the World”.

By: O'Reilly

O'Reilly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:55:37 +0000

I feel the green series is like fox news. It reports and we decide. If the overwhelming majority of the worlds scientists (no just left wing American scientists) say carbon emissions are the cause, reporting that in the magazine is not a scare tactic.

What if they are wrong? The earth will be a cleaner, healthier place because we took action.

What if they are right? We should be scared and ashamed for not doing something.

By: siccum

siccum — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:29:24 +0000

Global warming. Just because Al Gore says the earth is warming doesn’t mean it is. Where did he get his facts? His jets cause more greenhouse gases than all of us put together. You are using scare tactics on the youth. Why is it Al Gore can make a movie and it is gospel. Everybody puts it in their library as gospel. The tape goes to class and it is gospel. Balogna!!

By: Astrophysics Professor

Astrophysics Professor — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:11:56 +0000

Ask the majority of the world’s RESEARCH climateologists or HISTORICAL meteorologists and they will tell you that global warming is cyclic and often solar in nature and little to do with man-made conditions. Being good environmental stewards is part of being great Scouts, but the focus should be on conservation, ecology, and resulting polution reduction. Too little of the ‘going green’ campaign is rooted in scientific fact; many conclusions are drawn from unconfirmed data and recent speculation. BSA needs to encourage Scouts to get involved for the right reasons: recycling, renewal, and responsibility, but not shaming and blaming them if the Earth’s natural temperature cycles shift naturally.

By: jam

jam — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:53:55 +0000

use fencing wood to build furiture instead of buying more wood you wil save trees.

By: Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:28:18 +0000

As scouts, we were taught to leave no trace when camping because it is the right thing to do and is considerate of others that follow us in the woods. Going green is simply doing that to the planet in our everyday life.

Saving energy, saving resources, recycling and teaching our scouts that thoughtless wasteful actions leave a trace and minimizing that is stewardship of creation that our great God so beautify made.

Good work guys.

By: Concerned Scouter

Concerned Scouter — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:42:20 +0000

Boys Life magazine and the Boy Scouts of America are perpetrating a lie with this global warming ‘series’. I will be counter-balancing your intentionally misleading, or perhaps, just grossly ignorant and uninformed ‘facts’ within my den and pack meetings.

It is sad to see this organization succumbing to this hype and even worse, attempting to indoctrinate the worlds youth in its folly.