would you want to save your self or save the world?

Question

We have to start acting one way or another, we want to help the planet, we should start saving the people first.

Answer 1

Saving the world by default saves yourself. Both can be done at the same time. We have the knowlage to do this but we need to find the motivation

Answer 2

I want to save the world cause its a cause and effect. If u help save the world u help save urself. But 4 selfish people that just save them self, they are killing the world.

Answer 3

WRONG

in order to save the people we must first save the planet ,
what is the point of a saved humanity and the planet is gone ,where do we hang out in the meantime ,in Limbo??

so in order to save the planet we may have to sacrifice portions of humanity ,or at least stop it from spreading any further.

then we may end up with a planet where we can save people

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overpopulation is the primary cause of all the world problems
polution,desertification,water shortage ,food shortage ,deforrestation,loss of animal habitat ,you name it

people use and need land,so more and more is being changed to accomodate human growth and devellopment

the necessary flora ,which permits life as we know it, is disappearing.

Eco-systems are being exchanged for desserts , concrete or roads.

An environmentally destructive wave is in motion, caused by expanding populations,and expanding agriculture

an increase in desserts definately affects the global climate and is for a large part responsible for the climate change we are experiencing now

World population has doubled in the last 50 years exceeding the growth of 4 million years (since we became homo sapiens).
To satisfy the growing demand farmers are cultivating unstable lands , too steep or dry to be sustainable.


Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .
Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

Each year billions of tons of topsoil are blown or washed away by storms.

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities. The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people,

are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.

This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

SUGESTED SOLUTIONS
at a meeting in Kopenhagen in 1998 it was suggested to bring the world population down by 60%,one cannot help but wonder at how this would be archieved

population control in the past and present

War (past .present and future)
Natures way disease(today,past and future)
Manufactured disease(suspected today)
cures that kill(suspected today)
poisoned consumer goods (suspected today)
making children infertile or gay,by raising the PH level in drinking water or even drinks (suspected today)
birth control,(in the past the Olmecs women ate yams to make them infertile,today we have several methods but most reach only the educated ,i handed out condoms to an native Mazatecca comunity in oaxaca ,and the church retrieved them all )
education on birth control(not enough,again the poor regions are excluded )
laws that limit childbirth per family(China

may be we should bring back human sacrifice ,that would keep the gods happy and we could fertilize some of the millions of hectares that modern agriculture has destroyed with its chemicals.and with all the full moons we got during the year it would have a marked effect on the population.It would be more dignified than bombing countries

Answer 4

Save the planet so our children have a decent place to live as they grow up.

Answer 5

The way it looks now and with all the greed it looks like everybody cares about themselves. I personally would save the world and I do my part, but unfortunately greed is powerful and blinds many at what is really going on with the worlds health.

Answer 6

I take it you mean in the long run,right? I am too old to save myself and the world needs to be here for the future humans.I hope they have a chance to see and enjoy all that we have seen and enjoyed.I have seen only a portion of the world, and it is a beautiful place to see...

Answer 7

well i personally , alone cannot save the world so i think i'll start with myself and do all i can do to keep the world a greener and better place.

Answer 8

save the world.
yeah.no doubt about it --for some reason i don't think pain or death could be that bad.-----------------n000000000000000000--- I'm not suicidal!!! OK??
honestly?how could you live with yourself knowing you were soo selfish. 'selfish?' I'm not sure why i said that but i think that's how I'd think of myself if i didn't save someone when i had the choice.

Answer 9

Well, both, of course. Me first though or how will I help the world?

Answer 10

By doing one you are helping the other