Should we clean up the trash?

Question

2 recent articles on cnn.com spawned this question.
They recently reported that the world Seafood supply will be gone by 2048, yesterday they reported that there is a swirling mass of garbage equivilant to the state of Texas floating just off the edge of HI where our newest national park is.

If the choice was up to you, would you:
A>Spend money on police actions in places we don't belong
b>Spend money on a detoxification effort for the ocean.

Just interested in your opinion.

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Answer 1

The environmental problems are huge, but for some reason politicians would rather ignore them for the most part, perhaps because they aren't as exciting and appealing to their sense of patriotic rabble rousing.
Terms like "Tree hugger" or "Hippy" tend to sum up the attitudes of many conservatives toward anyone who openly professes to care about the environment, and yet the problems that are developing in this area will eclipse any of the dangers that military conflict can pose. Deforestation, overfishing pushing fish stocks to the brink of extinction, garbage and pollution increasing everywhere as the previously undeveloped nations of the world strive to attain the lifestyle we've enjoyed for so long.
Our totally unsustainable and highly destructive lifestyle has been bad enough with just 5% of the population, but now as huge numbers of people in China and India also start to gear up for it, the reality of just how destructive our consumerism and corporate greed is will really hit home HARD!!
I for one would be willing to pay an environmental protection tax or whatever, as long as I had proof that the politicians were using it honestly.
Definitely something needs to be done now! Drastic changes to our lifestyles need to be made now! We can't afford to be smug in our belief that technology will somehow provide us with all the answers. Perhaps we just have to do without a lot of the luxuries we've begun to think of as ours by right!

Answer 2

I'll take B. Spend money on a detoxification effort for the ocean. Fish is a meat the majority of the country let alone the world eats. People make a living off of fishing. What would this world be like without fish. I'm just not talking shell fish. FISH period. The year 2048 isn't as far off as it looks. Grant it I'll be pretty old by then and might be eating mashed food. Mashed fish is better then no fish at all. We need fish it's a vital food source for millions of people. Besides that first choice is already failing HARD. I head someone make a good point about choice A. The war in Iraq has been going on since the bible. Religious battles in that part of the world are constant. We can't solve everyones problems. Put effort where it could make a difference.

Answer 3

We only called the Korean War a "Police Action" The way you gave an Either Or that are totally unrelated to each other would suggest that you are an opposer of the Iraq war which is fine.

Yes it is our duty to clean up after ourselves if for no other reason that it will benefit us. We should consider it our moral obligation to clean the oceans, but apparently we don't.

As far as the "Police Action" we need to finish it quickly and get the hell out.

Answer 4

B-spend money on a detoxification effort for the ocean.
If we don't take care of the planet, then there will be no planet for the police to patrol.