I've gotten into this argument soo many times, it's not even fun. Most of the time in these arguments, I argue human intervention is not the cause of global warming, and I've always been ridiculed. There's actually been 1 argument (the most recent), where I wasn't ridiculed for the side I supported. I've reviewed evidence from both sides of the argument, and I've concluded that there wasn't enough solid evidence supporting the theory that human intervention is the cause of global warming. The evidence that is present is pretty weak. However, even though we may or may not be the cause of global warming one thing remains constant: taking actions to reverse or fix previous actions is harder than taking preventative action.

My friends also bother me about my recycling habits. Unlike my friends, I actually looked into the recycling process to see how effective it is. Most of my friends do it simply because everybody, by everybody I mean the media, is saying that it's really good. But according to the evidence, the system we employed actually causes more pollution (transporting the recyclables and chemicals used to clean the materials). I've concluded that at the current time, only aluminium is the only material that can be recylced the way we recycle. On top of that, I try to minimize the use of paper and plastic in favor of more re-usable materials that use less natural resources such as metals and electrons (software). Glass is something that I actually try to re-use, and I rarely use it.

That's only my current stance. As new technologies move in to replace the old ones, it may change. For example, electricity may be used to remove ink from paper instead of the currently harmful chemicals. This would make recycling paper eco-friendly enough to actually consider recycling paper a useful process which doesn't harm the environment. We've also recently isolated two important bacterias: one that degrades plastic, and a bacteria that reproduces with the other bacteria. This allows us to completely get rid of plastic recycling (it actually doesn't get recycled, it's put in clothes and shoelaces), but it won't solve the issue of using a lot of resources to make plastic.