Environment: buried under Sci & Math. Are Sports & Dining Out more important than global life support systems?

Question

I appreciate this forum, but question the priorities of society its categories imply. Based on questions & answers people have posted, many Yahoo users are clearly awake, aware, and very concerned about the future of humankind and the planet in general. Our collective fate rests largely in how we treat our global life support systems -- our environment. Yet this forum, like much of our society, occupies so much time and energy with "concerns" over comparatively trival things such as "Beauty & Style, Consumer Electronics, Games & Recreation, Sports," etc... The longer we keep ignoring the REALLY BIG PROBLEMS we face, the less likely we'll be to reverse or solve them. Why isn't "Environment" a major heading here, and in the larger context of society? Shouldn't we, as a people, start making this a primary focus of our attention? If we don't sustain our global life support systems, nothing else will matter. You found this under Science & Math. How many others bother to look here?

Answer 1

Based on the choices we have made collectively as a society and based on the amount of time spent thinking about the various categories you mention I would have to reluctantly conclude that apparently they are.

Although having said that I suspect strongly that such will not continue to be true forever. There comes a point where when your favorite bistro on the beach floods for the umpteenth time during an unusually high tide (no doubt due to naturally variations according to the head-in-the-sand crowd) that we might just maybe start to think about other things.

Answer 2

For some people these trivial things are so closely inTertwined one could say it is our life(not mine)"How would one eat an elephant?" on e bi te at a ti me!hope this helps some.

Answer 3

sad but true, society cares less about the environment than it does on selfish pleasures