Have we gone to far, or will mother nature forgive us for damaging this beautiful planet?

Answer 1

Mother Nature and the planet will survive long after we have gone, the question is will our children forgive us for the damage we are wreaking on the planet? Everyone seems to think in the short-term and about the impact on them personally; we should be looking out from our introverted lives to the impact we can have on the environment globally. If each one of us makes a small change to the way we use the resources we have, it will make a difference. If each one of us encourages someone else to make a change, it will make a difference. Agreed that it will take changes on a global scale to 'save' the planet but sooner or later if individuals make a difference and demand more changes, the politicians will realise (eventually) that they need to change policy, and that will make a BIG difference. Having lived in developing countries for the last 10years, I have seen them making the same mistakes we did at the beginning of the last century - their response 'you did it, so why shouldn't we?'! Shouldn't the 'developing' countries be learning from mistakes already made? Shouldn't 'developed' countries be supporting new initiatives to help them not to make the same mistakes we did? - The debate is immense, but I would challenge to ayone to watch Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and not come away with a feeling that it's not too late and we can make a difference!

Answer 2

We can only forgive ourselves in the manner of destroying our planet, and we can only forgive ourselves also. Governments need to take stands, and see what poor emitions, and none filtered smoke stacks are doing, not to their genretation, but the generation after. Pollution is becomming a thing of the past as more counties see the long term effect pollution from the 50's and 60's is having on our planet today. Give it enough 20 years and things will be a lot different. It's just going to take strong will from our people, and technoligies to kill pollution. Right now, we can only work as a whole to help our planet. Try riding your bike to work, then driving 5 mins. Take a bus across town, maybe a train to another city. Invest more into nuclear power as it is a lot cleaner then coal, or oil power. Our popuilation, and genreation can make this world better for the oncomming people...

Answer 3

Placed in the larger picture, our occupancy time on the Earth is simply a blip in the planet's history. Likewise what we do is truly minor and has very little real effect on the planet itself (consider for a moment the natural catastrophic periods the Earth has gone through over the last 4.5 billion years).

When people bang on about the efffect this or that is having on the 'planet' they really mean what effect is this going to have on us. The earth will come out of this epoch, recover and carry on...we however, may not be around to see such a period.

Answer 4

We have gone to far!!
Mother naute should Not forgive us
If every person on the face of this planet we call earth used
the 3 R's
1. Reduce
2. Reuse
3. Recycle
The palnet would be in a much healthier state but unfouryunatley some people just don't care!

Answer 5

Nature is not your mother or you wont have earthquakes and hurricanes. The planet or "nature" cannot forgive or not forgive you because it is a lump of rock. And finally you get too sentimental about the whole stuff. You worry too much for nothing. The Earth will still be here when you are long gone.

Answer 6

The planet is a vast living entity. It could be wiped clean of life and vegitation and it would come back to life. We are taking small steps over the past 30 years to slow the destruction of the Earth. And in the coming years we will make more and more progress. It is important to not think we are doomed because the weather is occassionally strange. Weather goes in cycles. In past decades it was different but the weather will go back to those standards.

Answer 7

Astralpro... unfortunately, we have gone too far.
Unless human beings disappear, there is no way to stop all this environment destruction. I read, the other day, that if all the mammals disappeared, Earth could survive and regain its original vigor BUT if the insects disappeared, Nature would be DEAD!
I am not preaching human disappearance but this is surreal situation: the only beings that can admire, enjoy Nature rationally, that have intellectual perception of all this are not only destroying it, but are taking themselves (ourselves) into a horrifying end!

Answer 8

its not a case of nature forgiving us but more a case of us trying to curb all the things the boffins are telling us we are doing to upset the world environment,, its all come about they say by the fossil fuel pollution so that is the last 100 years but factory chimneys were belting out pollution years and years ago and climatic changes were not mentioned then, everyone had fires lit in their homes so much pollution in Victoriana, so just what are we doing wrong now that we weren't apparently 100/200 years ago and i remember as a young person the 4 seasons came and went exactly as they did each year before so could it be perhaps the world itself choosing the change in world climate its done it before ice age etc etc

Answer 9

Yes, we have gone too far and no mother nature will not forgive us. The damage is irreversible at this point, don't you think?

Answer 10

May be it is our destiny as the dominant species on earth to multiply so much that we will be forced to emigrate to space stations or other planets.
Maybe then the earth will be cared for and respected as a natural resource park.
I have read too many science fiction books!