I don't understand how our environment gets put on the back burner with our current administration. I have always looked at it like this trees=oxygen oxygen=breathing cut down trees=less oxygen less oxygen=less breathing. Just don't get it.
2006-07-10 11:54:54 · 12 answers · asked by prisonbreaklvr27 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It's because we depend on the destruction of the enviroment for our paper.
Paper is a continual source that is needed in many countries.
There have been many efforts to decrease the destruction of the enviroment but it has to be a worldwide, countrywide, govermentwide sought change.
The basic thing is. In South America, the goverment depends on selling the rainforest to companies who intend to cut it down as its only source of revenue. They do not realize how trees are a not a renewable source. While the rainforests produce renewable sources year round and would be a lot more valuable in the long run. It takes a goverment change to help the enviroment. The people unfortunatly can't do anythig drastic for hte envirment. Just do what you can do such as recycle.
2006-07-10 12:01:16 · answer #1 · answered by dj_mix_2005 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand why you make this sweeping generalization. I've seen this now a few times, but nobody ever provides specifics. How is the government trashing the environment?
By the way, we have to cut down trees. We need wood. But the U.S. plants way more trees than we cut down. Forestation isn't an environmental issue. So what is?
2006-07-10 18:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by Farly the Seer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I figure that when hydrogen becomes the fuel of choice, a bi-product of extracting hydrogen from water is oxygen. I believe they are trying to figure out a way to make us PAY for oxygen rather than get it for free. After-all we now routinely pay for water, which used to be free and we even have developed brand loyalty for our favorite water (French started this, so it should be suspect). Trees produce oxygen as a bi-product and I'm sure they are now being looked at as the new enemy to this new Free-enterprise endeavor. Ain't Capitalism Great?
2006-07-10 20:25:10 · answer #3 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's not being done about the environment? What the hell has George done or not done now? I can't keep up with this President. He's stealing elections in Mexico, of course he should be good at that now since he stole both of ours, he's cutting down all the trees, he attacks countries without provocation, he's taken all my rights. I now have to wear clean non-hole socks when I fly. Last year he was creating Hurricanes and able to point them where he wanted. All this for a man they say is dumb. hmmmm.......What have you done to top this?
2006-07-10 19:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the environment is that it's a public good (that is, a good that we all share, that it's difficult to exclude any particular individual from making use of, and that we all pay for). Fiscal policy analsys has shown that with all public goods shared by a large population suffer from the "free rider" phenominon, that is, that as any one individual's relative contribution to the payment for a public good becomes lower and lower, that the significance of making that payment becomes less and less attractive, since it's impact is so small. As a result, voluntary participation of payment for these goods will ALWAYS fail, since few, if any, choose to participate.
2006-07-10 19:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by rickthewonderalgae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no cutting down trees for buildings = freezing butt off in cold. look, trees are the last thing we need to worry about. there not going extinct, and they aren't the only plant that produces oxygen.
2006-07-10 19:00:39 · answer #6 · answered by a.fricker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is because people are ignorant and obviously don`t give a hoot about our planet. They don`t think it will affect them. I don`t understand it either. They are not aware of the Risks. It`s about making the big bucks. Cut down a few more trees for a few more houses. It makes me sick.
2006-07-10 19:00:52 · answer #7 · answered by Roxie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is not powerful enough, smart enough, or cpable enough to ruin the environment. The environment will win every time.
2006-07-10 19:14:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people know that it won't really have a dramatic effect in our lifetime, so they selfishly sentence their descendents to harsher lives. That and they also hope someone else will do something about it.
2006-07-10 18:58:57 · answer #9 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont understand either. i ask people the same question and hey answer with something like "what do i care, im not going to be around." thats when i just wanna go *smack*
2006-07-10 19:05:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋