Doesn't it scare you???????

Question

I know this is hypocritical but isn't anybody else scared of what we are doing to the environment? I shouldn't be sitting in my house with the ac in front of my computer whining about the state of the world but I was just thinking about bird flu, animal extinction, global warming, new virus' that fight off the antibodies already (ok I had help from a site with all this thinking). And I'm scare for my children. What can we do to change it????? I don't think I'm ready to give up my life but what other way is there but then nobdy else is going to change. What's a person supposed to do?? I want realistic answers please.

Answer 1

Sure it's scary. While we won't be all that affected by it, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will never enjoy the kind of life we experienced here on planet Earth - unless government leaders start giving priority attention to environmental issues instead of wars, big business, and special interest groups.

Imagine just a few scenarios in the near future:

If oil companies are allowed to build a pipeline right through the migratory paths of Alaska's caribou, these grand animals will not reproduce. While it might seem trivial to us, there are a few thousand Eskimos that depend on the caribou for food, clothing and shelter. If the caribou disappears, so do these Eskimo tribes. So who's more important to the Earth: these honorable people who value the Earth's resources and consider land and animals to be sacred, or our 'contemporary' civilization that's more concerned about filling the tanks of our $60,000.00 SUVs?

If we continue to asphalt over all of America's rich farmland so we can build glitzy shopping malls and handsome housing additions, farmers won't have land on which to grow crops. If farmers can't grow crops or raise cattle, we can't eat. Contrary to popular belief, food doesn't come from supermarkets or five-star restaurants: it comes from farms! If we can't eat, we DIE!

If we refuse to practice the "Three R's" of recycling, reusing, and returning, eventually all the trash we have hauled away to a landfill will swell the capacities of such facilities. Eventually all those landfills will leach toxic poisons into our rivers and into the air. Future generations won't be able to drink water or breathe, so our entire civilization will DIE.

If McDonald's continues to chop down thousands of acres of rainforest every day so it can clear more land on which to graze cattle (so it can sell us more cheap BigMacs), eventually the rainforest will disappear...and with it, all the rare species of plants, animals and insects that live there. God (or Nature, or whomever you believe it to be) surely must have put those plants, animals and insects there for a purpose; maybe the venom from a rare snake could be used to cure cancer. But, if we destroy all the rainforests, we'll never know. Cancer will continue to be one of our most prevalent diseases, and we will continue to DIE!

If oil companies are allowed to drill for oil in the oceans, many sea-going creatures will see their migratory paths or breeding grounds disturbed. If marine animals such as coral reef, tuna, dolphins, whales, shrimp or lobsters can't reproduce, we won't enjoy a valuable food source. So we won't be able to feed our family shrimp cocktail, or even a tuna casserole. Without seafood and the important nutrients it provides, we will DIE!

While global warming is, indeed, a natural phenomenon, we've helped to speed up the process over the past century. If the polar ice caps start melting, cities on both coasts of both major oceans will see massive flooding, more dangerous hurricanes, and countless other 'natural' disasters. As that happens, many millions of people will be unable to escape the carnage, and they will DIE!

The point is: whether it was purely an accidental series of evolutionary coincidences, or the product of some 'intelligent design', we humans cannot afford to dismantle the environmental laws of nature that have protected and preserved our fragile ecological balance for eons. Nature isn't something to be messed with just because we "need" more oil, or just because we are too damn lazy to recycle, or just because we don't want to be inconvenienced, or just because big business wants to enhance its profitability.

All the money in the world won't be worth a tinker's damn once we've managed to destroy the Earth's environment. And if you're scared for your children, IMAGINE how our reckless mismanagement of the Earth's resources will affect THEIR children and THEIR grandchildren, and all of their future descendants! We CAN change it, but it takes the effort of every single one of us as well as the cooperation of every single government on the planet.

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Ancient American Indian tribes used to consider the land sacred. If they killed a buffalo, the 'recycled' all of it, using the meat for food; the hides for clothing and shelter; and the bones for weapons or tools. Contemporary Americans could learn a lot from these venerable societies. If we don't start paying more attention to the environment, we are vulnerable to extinction.

-RKO- 07/09/06
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Answer 2

The #1 thing you should do is worry less. We have problems in the modern world, but compared to the past we have it so good it is unbelievable. Germs that are resistant to antibiotics are just such a minor problem compared to the problems people had before antibiotics were even invented! Just dwelling on all the problems of the world, most of which you cannot change, is destructive to your own mental health. I say, count your blessings, be responsible, set your thermostat a little higher, drive a fuel efficient car, wash your hands a lot when you have the flu, and life will go on!

Answer 3

You must change your own world, as you can't change the world around you. It's funny how people worry about all these, what I consider as far fetched problems, and yet they get into their car, which is the most dangerous thing they do on an every day basis, and even go so far as talking on the cell phone. How about wearing a helmet on your bicycle, or not putting on your seat-belt in your car? Smoking, there is another one that surprises me, while they are worrying about Global Warming or Bird Flu, they sucking back on a cigarette. Very Puzzling indeed.

Answer 4

We have been doing a whole lotta things to the environment in far worse ways.

Don't worry, we will always find new ways to protect the environment. Only when the problems of pollution due to steam engines reached a height, we opted for new research into less smokier options such as petrol engines. Now, we are going for alternative and natural fuel sources.

So, although the state of the environment scares me a lot, it is also important to realize that we humans are working to find solutions that would ensure our survival.

Answer 5

What can you do???

Simple.

1. You have to start with wanting to take a pro-active part in actually being personally responsible for your " OWN - SELF " and your choices that you make that potentially can have an affect on the enviorment, animals/wildlife, bird-flu- new vaccines etc.... if you care about them and do the positive thing to ensure you are contributing to these problem by starting in your own back yard with yourself first. ( No one likes a hypocrite, right? )
Start recycling your old newspapers, magazines ...cans..everyweek...that's a good start! Buy earth-eco Friendly products that actually help promote and actively participate in conserving our resources here on earth...( you can always find the Earth friendly ) sign petitions to help save species on earth, plants & forests, rain forests, help keep water safe for drinking and becoming polluted, help the oceans, coral reefs, and various sea life from being overfished and ruined by signing petitions, particpating in local community events to help in any cause that would suit your interests while helping other people get educated about these issues, and learn how to be more enviormental-friendly in their own personal lives themseves .....after all that is where it has to start with everyone.

Answer 6

The basic problem is of lack of awareness for the preservation of the ecology and lack of will to am-mend the protection of ecology.
i am not talking the conservation at grand scale but our self conservation that each what can put at the minimum extent.
each one of us dream of travelling in our own personal transport vehicle as we think it is a symbol of a our prestige.
we want a soothing self sustained environment which is o.k with us but the harm we cause is far more of impact.
each human thinks that playing with the environment by one will not cause any harm.
but the population of earth is about 6 billion and the impact is quite large .
as it is said "charity begin gs at home"

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I would'nt worry about that stuff, in the next 5 years, the U.S. is going to get nuked by a bomb in a container in "Bayonne" NJ, then we'll have to listen to the liberals screaming "Why did'nt somebody do something about this when we knew", waaa waaa waaa, cry me a river !

Answer 9

this world is developing ....just think that if there were no diseases
in this world and no one would die....if no one dies ..then the population would increase like hell....this world is stable with diseases becoz thats gonna keep everything in proportion...the number of births should be equal to the number of people dying...so u dont have to think about it...and regarding ur children....they will be fine ....u dont have to worry about them...

Answer 10

Go and buy a ticket to the cinema and watch "An Inconvenient Truth"