Global Warming Worries

I'm a fairly strong conservationist, and I believe we do a whole lot of careless things that damage our environment.  I think there's a lot we could and should do to better maintain our world.  Being carbon neutral is probably one of those things, and I take it into consideration.

The problem is that Global Warming makes very specific predictions about an extremely complex and little understood process.  Even if we are causing warming, it may be made irrelevant by other changes the planet goes through which we can not anticipate.  But if the predictions don't pan out in a certain time frame, I think the Global Warming movement will damage the idea of conservation in general.  It will be used as an example of how conservationists are sensationalist sky-is-falling types, and can be safely ignored.  I also think it puts far too much emphasis on one aspect of conservationism, ignoring other important issues like deforestation, overfishing, other forms of air and water pollution, etc.

I hope we can, in a reasonable way, learn to live sustainably.  I hope that the flash of Global Warming, true or not, doesn't drown out the rest of the picture.