what are we doing to make our planet healthier?

Question

it looks like we're just killing ourselves.

Answer 1

Global craziness
By Nathan Tabor
Saturday, February 24, 2007

This week—perhaps emboldened by the groundhog predicting an early spring—Old Man Winter came roaring back, blanketing much of the nation with a sheet of ice. In fact, a number of residents of the Midwest and Northeast felt as if they were living in a new Ice Age, thanks to a thick coat of ice that brought vehicular traffic to a standstill.

As they shivered amid wind-chill levels well below zero, it must have come as a comfort that Al “Global Warming” Gore is once again at work, trying to free the world from the tyranny of temperatures above the freezing mark.

Rapper Pharrell Williams, left, and actress Cameron Diaz attend a news conference for the "Live Earth" concerts Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, in Los Angeles. The concert series hopes to trigger a broad movement to address what the former Vice President Al Gore calls a global climate crisis. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) Gore announced plans this week for a series of musical concerts designed to, in Gore’s words, “solve the climate crisis.” His accomplices in this mission of misguided mercy include musical artists ranging from the rapper Snoop Dogg to American Idol star Kelly Clarkson.

Venues for the “Live Earth” concerts include Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, London, and yet-to-be-determined cities in Japan, Brazil, and the U.S. The campaign behind this effort is ironically titled, “Save Our Selves.”

Gore was quoted as saying, “We are launching SOS and Live Earth to begin a process of communication that will mobilize people all over the world to take action. The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement. We hope to jump-start that movement right here, right now, and take it to a new level on July 7, 2007.”

Earth to Gore: It’s 12 degrees outside. Are we really suffering from global warming—or just a liberal propaganda campaign that’s now gone musical?

It’s heart-warming to see musical artists come together for a good cause—after all, what would Labor Day be without the Jerry Lewis Telethon? But fighting muscular dystrophy is one thing—fighting Mother Nature is quite another.

By trying to cast Mother Nature as an extremist, environmentalists such as Gore are trying to hide their own extremism. Their solution to the earth’s problems is to regulate businesses out of existence. They’d sacrifice American jobs to save a single tree, and they often put animals on a pedestal above human beings. It’s a world view that’s positively frightening but, unfortunately, there are no rock concert promoters around who are willing to stage a musical extravaganza to combat environmental extremism.

Since when does a failed Presidential candidate have such pull with the music industry? I don’t hear of Ross Perot getting the Black Eyed Peas to sing for his pet projects.

When the worlds of music and politics embrace, it is often a scary proposition for us all. Look at how many folk groups credited themselves with ending the Vietnam War. Forget military strategy and political acumen, to their way of thinking, it’s four-part harmonies that determine victory or defeat on the battlefield.

I can only hope that, when the SOS concerts roll around, this week’s deep freeze will be fresh in the memories of Americans who might otherwise be hoodwinked by the global warming crowd.

Answer 2

noit nearly enough this is what we should be doing ,and i do my bit by sending this message and talking to lots of school kids about the Environment as well as farmers about sustainable and organic farming and agro forestal

unfortunatly
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.

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.

Answer 3

There are several things that should be done such as growing more biomass and storing it to reduce to CO2 level or making a process to recycle trash that would really work. What is being done is crimes against nature that should be stopped.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Why save the planet when we need to save the Union?