• Question: are you as worried about the earth\'s science (global warming, climate change) as you are about human science (cancer)?

    Asked by lm27 to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 22 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Yes, global warming is very worrying. I am more worrying about that than about cancer in fact. People dying of cancer is sad, but life will go on. Global warming, however, has the potential to have dire consequences. With changing rain patterns and more droughts, once fertile land could become arid. It is one thing to have people, mostly of old age, dying of cancer. It is something else to have a worldwide crisis where all people of all ages are starving and fighting each other for the resources that are left. People can resign themselves to the fact that they will die because of a terminal illness they can do nothing about. They won’t be so accepting of dying by starvation, full well in the knowledge that they can live if they take from others.

    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I’m worried about climate change because of the effect that it could have (or possible already is having) on people and animals. If the predictions are right some of the poorest countries that create the least CO2 are going to be really badly affected by changes in the climate that affect crops etc. and will mean that they don’t have enough food.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Yes, I’m very worried indeed about climate change, in fact I’m more worried about that than about cancer. But it’s not my area of science so I can’t do anything about it on a scientific level. All I can do is to try and live my life in as eco-friendly a way as possible.

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