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either you think it's too late, it's never too late, why bother, do it anyways.
Too late is the key

2007-04-19 07:43:27 · 5 answers · asked by SuBee 3 in Environment

5 answers

Yes, I do.

But we must try because our efforts still might count for something, and we cannot really know if it's too late.

This story is an old one told in the recent book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared Diamond reviews just a few of these historical cases. The one that comes to mind to me today is Easter Island, where two waring factions chose to do battle with each other to see who would get to have the biggest statues, a process that destroyed the island's fragile ecosystem and food rather than deal with the ecological disaster looming in front of them. Notably, what they were fighting for was religious hegemony.

This is just how humans seem to be made: we worry more about our enemies than the sinking ship we all are on. We prefer to war against countries with oil (and the energy waste of modern war is almost unfathomable) than figure out how to live in better balance with nature.

2007-04-19 08:48:40 · answer #1 · answered by Wave 4 · 0 0

that's form of a difficult question, because the way you state it truly is type of simplistic. definite, i trust Israel has the right to exist and, no longer like the U. S., their structure would not insist on a separation of church and state. yet Palestinians have rights too, and the Palestinian rights to citizenship conflict with Israel's target to be a Jewish united states. Israel is acquainted with that if it gave Muslims the completed rights of citizenship, if it shared land and water with them, Muslims ought to quickly outnumber Jews, and Israel ought to now no longer be a Jewish united states. Equality lower than the regulation, human/civil rights for others, isn't as major to Israel as ultimate a Jewish united states. There would not seem any everlasting or lengthy-time period answer to this, so the Israeli authorities. exhibits techniques to keep Palestinians powerless and lower than administration. both the rights of Israel to be Jewish AND the rights of Palestinians to be voters are major. yet they don't seem nicely suitable.

2016-12-04 07:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes I do. But it is not too late to try. Vote for those that will work towards inspiring the populaces of unstable governments to elect stable leaders.

2007-04-19 07:53:39 · answer #3 · answered by Yerrek 1 · 1 0

I have not Sean any data that I think is reliable enough to do anything. There is no global warming ,and the environmentalist is the cause of most of the problems I see.

2007-04-19 08:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0 1

What's to save? It'll do just fine.

2007-04-19 08:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 0 1

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