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Question

in what ways is man injust to the environment....and what can we do to overcome this...?????????

Answer 1

read all about global warming and that is what man is doing and that is what man will have caused, and now one day we will cease to exist and the creation will start completly back over.

Answer 2

I think the question demonstrates a bias. The earth is not alive or a living creature. The is no such thing as Gaia (sp?). We cannot be injust to an inanimate object. If this is a question from a teacher, I feel your pain. It is like asking, why shouldn't we be kind to rocks. I would say that a reasonable answer might be that everyone has to live in the environment that we share and therefore noone should be able to do things to the shared environment that endangers everyone else. We obviously need some reasonable regulations that prevent degradation of our shared environment.

Answer 3

Mankind's very existence is detrimental to the environment. The reason is that man is always changing the process of nature to benefit him specifically. When one factors in greed, corruption, major industries, and the growth of the World Population, it's not difficult to see the damage mankind has done to the planet. Worldwide, we must quit burning our Rain Forests, over fishing the oceans, spilling oil, illegally dumping toxic waste, and creating emissions that deplete the Ozone just to name a few. In general, we must become acutely aware that if we keep screwing around with our Mother Nature and do not heed the warnings she is screaming at us, we're going to get spanked really hard. If we do not change our ways, mankind will eventually destroy itself and again nature will rule.

Answer 4

Because people think that we as a people are to insignificant to actually have an effect on the world, which in turn they are wrong, because we definitely could!!

Answer 5

(1) Destroying natural forest ecosystems for logging lumber. Solution: To preserve forests and ecoystems, and to recycle wood or harvest trees in sustainable cycles like other crops.

Example: Pacific Lumber in California used to grow redwoods in 70-year cycles to maintain a supply as well as jobs. (When Maxxam Corporation took over, they changed to "clearcutting" for shortterm gain at the expense of sustainable logging and jobs. So the solution is to go back to the previous policy instead.)

(2) Polluting air and water supplies with production plants that discharge chemical wastes. Solution: Consumer awareness and public pressure, organizing more consumer education to vote with money, using market forces to motivate companies to to protect the environment and respect workers, and not to patronize companies with unhealthy or unethical business practices.

Example: Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and other consumer and environmental watch groups.

(3) Unnatural chemicals, hormones, or herbicides that affect plants and animals. Companies competing to cultivate and market products faster and in greater volumes may resort to growth hormones and other unnatural means that are not healthy for people or the planet. Even "organically" grown livestock or food supplies can lead to stripping foreign land of forests and natural environment in order to sustain the market demand.

The toll on public health also causes economic problems (through rising costs of medical care for cancer and heart disease instead of focusing on dietary prevention) and exploiting foreign markets and workers for food supplies while their own countries starve in poverty.

Solution: Reducing meat intake, especially cows, as more of the human population can be sustained directly instead of growing crops to feed livestock. The public health would also benefit from a diet of more fruits and vegetables instead of too much red meat, so that health care costs would also be more manageable with better diets as a preventative measure against heart disease and certain cancers. Patronizing local farmers and cooperatives that sustain fair wages and healthier practices.

Example: Fair Trade which polices corporations regarding unfair exploitation or slave labor, and issues "fair trade" labels for goods that support locally managed farmers cooperatives.

(4) Excessive fuel demands also cause environmental, economic and political problems. Not only in the Middle East, but also in the Nigerian Delta area, destroyed by both oil production and foreign corporations making deals with corrupt government officials that have wiped out the local populations of indigenous villagers who should have benefited equally from mineral rights.

Solution: reducing the need for fuel by organizing sustainable self-governing communities in every country. Setting up schools, teaching hospitals, and other institutions to develop and to democratize local populations.

Examples: Architecture for Humanity, Grameen Foundation and Grameen Bank (microcredit financing to create independent business economies in poor areas worldwide), Congress for New Urbanism (for sustainable neighborhood development).

Education and democracy may not seem like an environmental issue. But as long as global corporations exercise "constitutional rights" as "persons" while exploiting local and foreign communities without means of defending equal civil rights, environmental and political destruction occurs for economic gain. So the only way to reverse this trend is to educate and to organize consumers and citizens in all countries to stop oppression, corruption and exploitation for short term profit, and to seek solutions that are sustainable for the long term.