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[alexander]

My point being, that if you have such a defeatist attitude as Strangelove, that 'only the strong survive and so you might as well just roll over and die, since absolutely *nothing* we do can possibly help' then of course we're just going to die with no effort made. Human beings aren't like that. We will struggle, work, and try again and again and again until the very last breath is drawn from our bodies. We are making efforts to change our destructive ways to our planet Earth. It will take many different new technologies, and utilization of some as old as time like growing our own foods in a backyard garden, but if we keep working towards it we can have a better future for ourselves, or children, our children's children, and our planet.

A beautiful way of thinking Sakura, really, I'm not been sarcastic, but that is the main problem. We struggle to survive, but history showed us that we only did struggled when desperation knocked the door, and while the desperation times weren't around we just acomodated ourselfs and let things flow without concern. And sadly that is our nature, we lose our determination when it's not necessary. And the same goes with the change of the environment, while everything is fine, while something catastrofic doesn't happen, and while we can make good money with our limited resources, nobody will really care about taking drastic measures, and then, when desperation knock the door again, there will be no way back for us, because when the climate changes for good, there is nothing we can do fix it.

[Dreamer]

Hopefully the big Gulf oil spill will help bring about changes for the environment.

[Strangelove]

Hopefully the big Gulf oil spill will help bring about changes for the environment.

It should, except this is congress were talking about.

http://www.huffingto...1_n_671519.html

Edited by Strangelove, 15 August 2010 - 02:17 AM.

[ShinkuUzumaki]

beeing green rocks!

[Black Rose]

Hah, it rocks for sure, but there are not many people that really are into it... Ironic, isn't it? Guess changing ur habits get harder and harder when growing up xP

[Strangelove]

Hah, it rocks for sure, but there are not many people that really are into it... Ironic, isn't it? Guess changing ur habits get harder and harder when growing up xP

Yes, if you don't start eating healthy and doing exercise when your young, is going to become harder and harder as you get older.

The bad news with the greens is that, even though it sounds correct it is only a temporary solution, as our population continues to grow, it will become more demanding, and our dependency on oil will never really come to an end, because you need petroleum for more things than fuel.

But if you want to insist, here are some pointers.

Recycling
Recycle pieces of cans, batteries, computer chips after your computer goes bad. If you throw it away then you made a mistake, for is not the chip, is what's in it. Pieces of gold and silver that can be reused for other PC's. The silver mines are almost depleted. Do not recycle paper, for it takes more energy to restore paper than making paper, thus harming the environment.

Organic foods
Unless you believe you have an health issue, and think Organic foods are the solution then fine. But if not, you might be paying on your wallet for something that in the end could harm the environment. First thing, the fertilizers that they use worries me, they use organic fertilizers to grow organic foods, such fertilizers can be from dead plants, to cow dung, or any form of dung.
http://www.organicco...ntamination.cfm
And the last thing, the reason why i believe it is bad for the environment is that as our human population continues to grow, it will need more and more food, that means more and more wildlife will have to be bulldozed to raise farms and make crops. GM farming just increases the yield of food.

Extinct species
Strapping yourself to a tree and trying to stop a demolition crew to enter a wild habitat isn't really going to help you at all...that is all i have to say about that.

[Sakura Blossoms]

Excerpt from this article:

How worried should we be?

Nevertheless, the long-term threat -- the potential impact of climate change on agriculture throughout the globe -- is major. Until recently, scientists were careful to say that any single natural disastrous climate event, such as the Russian drought or Hurricane Katrina, could not be attributed to global warming. No longer. "The issue isn't whether these events are natural or caused by climate change," former Energy Department official Joseph J. Romm told Yahoo! News. "It's both. You can't separate the two."

http://news.yahoo.co...ews_excl_sc3564