Please Atheists answer the question. How is the world going to heal get better?

Question

I hear some posters say what is happening to the planet is a natural process (Global Warming), OKAY- Has there ever been in a time in History that we could wipe out humanity? like we can with nuclear weapons? We can now..

Have we ever in the history of the world ever been as oil dependent as we are now?

Have we ever had a larger global poulation inhistory than we do now? and it's growing in numbers?

Has there ever been a time in history we can keep people alive longer than we can now? Who will take care of them? (Social Security will cease to exsist)and the Global Food Shortage we can look forward to.

Please answer how is humanity going to better the planet we live in?

Answer 1

As close as we seem to destruction, we're also sooo close to perfection. GM foods are capable of feeding not only those in starving countries, but feeding us in developed countries much cheaper and more efficiently, reducing the use of pesticides (and thus even cheaper and less damaging to the environment). Nuclear weapons could be used to power nuclear reactors, reducing our dependence on oil and our 'carbon footprint'. General Motors perfected an efficient electric car, perhaps a similar engine could not just be useful as an alternative method of personal transport (public and private) but replace the carbon emitting 18-wheelers that are necessary to truck food and materials across America.

In America we have 10 times the wealth we need, 20 times the food we need, and soon about half the gasoline we need. We are so damn close to having a perfect world society. We have the inventions on the shelves, we have the wealth, the power, the people to change it. We could put a stop to famine in Africa.

But what stops us? People who spread nonsense about potentially life-saving GM foods (btw, for anyone who brings up zombie corn and whatnot, we share billions of DNA base pairs with the same bacteria that makes green mold, just put it perspective rainbow warrior). Republicans who block greener initiatives, increase military spending.
^Had to single those two out.

Point is this, the greatest obstacles stopping human beings from realising their full potential are human beings themselves. We all would like to be happy, we all would like everyone else to be happy; we just can't seem to agree on how to do it, and some of us despair and don't think it's actually possible, and some of us think we all already are.

We have the potential not just to stop this, but to reverse it. We need a nudge, a tilt that would set the Earth on the path towards relative utopia. Something to make the Muslims see their religion is oppressive, short-sighted, cruel and restrictive. Something to make Christians see that the good that Christianity has done, and does do, doesn't necessarily outweigh the bad it continues to and that we can shed the bad and keep the good at the same time. We need them both to see how good true freedom feels, freedom of thought, of speech, of sexuality.

We need the oil barons and arms dealers to remember they have children, and the world they are driving into the ground will be inhabited by them someday. We need everyone to forget prejudices and leanings related to race. All of that could happen on its own, its close. Like the heavy snow awaiting an avalanche, it needs a rolling snowball to unleash its power. The tiniest vibration, a burrowing mole, whatever. On the scale of that initial push the magnitude will be enormous. To that snowflake that forms the ball, that forms the clump that triggers the slide, to that snowflake the effort will seem enormous. Can I be that snowflake? Can we be that ball? Everyone would be instrumental, but can that one person make a difference, the right difference? in the right place, at the right time? I don't know, but I have to believe it to be so. Because then we're doomed.

Answer 2

Well facing up to reality would be a good start, so that would preclude religious methodology..!!

You forgot to mention that the human world population doubles every 40 years, and that 80 years ago there were 1/4 as many people placing pressure on the environment and its resources. In 80 years from now there will be about 16 times as many people as there were 80 years ago.

Currently the human world population stands at over 6 billion, yet the christian set deny 3rd world regions with a high birth rate access to contraception..!!??

Follow your bible at the peril of us all..!!
At least the sciences can quantyify the situation, and provide answers and solutions to avoid global catastrophies. If you deny the scientific concepts and understandings available today, then you are part of the problem, not the solution..

Choose your path carefully..!!

Answer 3

Why is this an Atheist question? Humanity will survive and carry on so long as the planet does. If we poison the planet beyond repair with either environmental toxins or nuclear weapons, humanity is finished. FYI - Global Warming is not a natural process. While cyclical changes in weather are to be expected over the long term, global warming is the result of man's pollution. I really don't understand the point of your question?

Answer 4

By replanting trees that are being wiped out with mass deforestation and bringing back more oxygen. Plants feed on CO2 so to bring the levels down you create more greenery.

Recycle. In this day and age there is no reason that anything that is recyclable should not be. Stop using Styrofoams as they do not degrade. Research and use alternative fuels, there is no reason for us to be this dependent on fossil fuels. Change the laws so that farming once again becomes a good alternative for people to choose as a lifestyle. It can all be done if you want it to happen.

You paint a very grim picture.. how would you make it better? Some I suppose will ask an unproved entity to intercede on their behalf. I think for myself though, I will take action to make this world a better place. You can keep your half empty outlook, I'll keep mine half-full.

Answer 5

Lol we have been dependant on oil since the first t-model wich was over a hundred years ago. We have had the ability to wipe humanity of the face of the planet for more than half a century and the world is getting larger due to the increase in poverty in 3rd world countrys. They have more kids to support them selfs so thats why. There is no global food storage. My uncle owns 7000 acres of wheat lands and every harvest he makes enough grain to make 1 loaf of bread for every person for 2 years in a city with a population of two million. That is one of thousand of farms like that in the great praiere. Atheists are the people who beleive in science and logic such as I and none of the disagree with the concept of global warming.

Answer 6

I don't understand your rhetorical questions... are you suggesting that humanity by itself, it doomed to destroy the planet, and that somehow God has to divinely intervene?

Well, sister, there have been numerous times in the history of the world where teh whole population fo the world was nearly wiped out-- usually by a force of nature or a disease (i.e. the Plague). Humans didn't do that...
Your gloom and doom unerestimates the hope of the human spirit. And assumes the global population will continue to rise (it's falling in most industrialized countries -- Italy is TRYING to get its population to have babies) and that we will require oil as an energy source in teh future (what, like something can't come along to replace the internal compustion engine?)

In "The End of Faith," the author argues that the ONLY way to get to world peace is the abandonment of religion, which he points as the true dividing lines of this world.

Answer 7

Humanity will only heal any disorders by taking personal responsibility--not dream that one day horses are going to fly in sky--& some sky-buddy is going to wave a magical wand to turn the world pristine again!!--We are the ones fowling our own nests--we'd better wake up & clean up--it ain't going away by itself!!!

Answer 8

You've explained the exact reason we need to put down texts that were written in the Bronze Age by a bunch of uneducated bigots and think rationally about the world and our place in it.

Answer 9

Um....what does this have to do with atheist? Are you seriously trying to say that this is god slowly killing us off, or that we let the devil in and now he is ruining us? You my friend are misinformed! And to answer your last question we have to be more aware of what is affecting us financial and globally! I hope you don't mean that telling muslims to let jesus in there heart to stop there fanatical beliefs!

Answer 10

humans have always found away around problems, we are very good at adapting. the only true worry is nuclear weapons, and there isnt much we can do about that.