What are your opinions on how we treat our earth?

Question

Our earth, is gradually dying. And we are the cause of it.

I believe that all this pollution is going to cause the downfall of our earth. Probably not in our lifetime, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't care.

Also, we are overpopulating it. I dont think our globe has enough resources to hold so many people.

What are your opinions on how our earth is treated? What do you believe will cause the downfall...or do you believe it will never die? Opinions?

Answer 1

I think its irresponsible what people are doing to our earth....unfortunantly, look what people do to themselves...wheres that leave us?

Answer 2

"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," the Earth would say.

"Overpopulation? You're not the first species to try that. I deal with it, though it usually goes badly for the species in question. Good to see you're thinking about preventing it from going badly for you.

"Anyway it's not my nature (heh heh get it? nature?) to care. You should understand that. I do not care if your species survives, there'll be another cool species along in an eon or so. Likewise the panda, eagle, wolf. I do not care if New Orleans is underwater. Nature needs marshland too, and no, I truly do not care what your property owners think on that point. Property owners, there's a laugh!

"Though you guys seem to want to survive, and keep the world the way it is. OK, whatever. Good luck with that."

Answer 3

The earth will be fine. You are really talking about the biosphere and although we will probably really dramatically alter it, it will most likely survive as well. The real trick is that we may make the planet uninhabitable for most organisms including ourselves. Don't save the planet, save your own skin. I hope that by the time that the collective consciousness of the human population realizes the peril that they are putting themselves in, there will still be time to correct the mistakes. The Human animal is still a pretty cool animal and I would be sorry to see it go extinct.

Answer 4

my opinion on how to treat our earth is to not pollute because it kill a lot of our natural resources and animals.

the smoke that the fabrics let out is melting the ice and cause natural damages to our earth.

Answer 5

The overuse of plastics will be the death of our earth. They don't degrade, the manufacturing of them pollutes the air and water, storing food in plastic causes the food to become toxic.

Answer 6

we are abuseing the earth we should learn how to be one with the earth like the first nathion people told us we should be but us white men befor us didn,t lisen now we are paying the price.

Answer 7

Man has practically custom made the climate we have today
in the dinosaurs days there were no desserts and just about all desserts are a result of mans interventions
ghengas Khan burned all the forrests and filled the wells with sand turning huge teritories into desserts
the phoenician fleet deforested Lebanon and created those desserts ,Spain was deforreseted for building the Armada
and the Sahara used to be forrests ,until a n ancient civilization opit an end to that
now it is like a fire growing by 7 kilometres a year the heat consuming the plant growth on the edges.
collectively all of this has had a huge impact on gobal cilmate ,
but this is nothing compared to the effects of the expanding irrisponsible modern agriculture

Is global warming a man-made menace?

not all there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

some home truths

politicians and scientists who work for politicians have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many people income,and most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.


in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.