world, are we gonna stand up and do something about the enviroment?

Question

we need to start coming together, till it is to late. ive started doing little things, recycling, compost, turning my tv off(not on stand by).
these things arent hard. star if ur with me.

im telling u now, the leaders of our countries arent gonna do ****, these concerts are good, but id rather see it without all the lights.
lets start pulling together as humans, and sort this crap out.start telling our goverments, this is how its gonna be.

come on guys, youve seen the floods, the weather around the world, how things are being affected, its doing my head in these scientists telling us diffrent thiings all the time.we all know whats happening.

theres some sad people in the world

Answer 1

I'm right with you honey

Answer 2

Some rather pessimistic answers here but I tend to agree with the concept that many people are beyond caring - it's a sad reflection of our society that people are too concerned with individual well being rather than the well being of the planet.

Perhaps when things start impacting a little closer to home people will sit up and take notice a bit more. But don't get disheartened, in countless surveys the overwhelming majority of people are aware that problems exist and that something needs to be done, it's just that some people are relying on others to take action.

You've demonstrated yourself that a few simple steps can make a difference, it's no big deal and if everyone followed suit it would add up to a substantial difference.

No-one can use the excuse that they don't have time or money to recycle, switch off appliances etc and for those that don't I guess the biggest culprit is laziness - it's easier to click standby on the remote than to actually walk as fas as the TV and press the off button.

Things are improving and more people are taking action, there's better facilities now for recycling and more information is available to help people.

Answer 3

A great deal can be done by the 'little' people by recycling, not using more lights than necessary and using energy saving bulbs, turning down the central heating, turn off TV, computers etc instead of standby, unfortunately recording programmes need standy, but it would help if your recorder/tv could realise you are not recording and switch itself off after being idle for x amount of time, I am sure the companies could install this technology but are people willing to pay for it? The government is trying to do their bit by monitoring the big companies, here anyway, but other countries are not so environmentally concious. The govenrment are putting environmental laws/bills into place but the 'little' people are the ones with the real power. Firstly to do their bit and 2nd to make their feelings known. It is people who do nothing and think it is up to others or let nature to take its course that hinder the environmental movement. You don't have to do masses at once, just try one thing, change your light bulbs, put out your papers on recycle day. It is a start and it all helps.

Answer 4

We have to do something for the environment! But this world is just uncontrollable! The polution from factories and cars spread out and the rubbish is everywhere. The Arntartica is even melting and a scientist predict that after 40 years Earth is not capable of living in. Although this is happening, many of my friends and I are doing lots of environment-helping stuff, like recycling. GOOD DAY and wish this world good luck!

Answer 5

Censoredbyevil... I hope you are making a profit and selling those tomatoes as organic.. ?

To the original questioner; most of us already are doing our thing for the environment in the ways you state so we don't need you taking up anymore webspace. The best thing you can do is get together with a lobby group and go directly to the government wherever you are...
I'm afraid that whoring for stars isn't going to work with me pal, so I'd rather mark your question down as an insignificant
waste of space.

Answer 6

You bet there are sad people in the world, some countries don't have a drop of water, the Middel East is going to start a war because of the shortness in water Im always with you good guy.

Answer 7

We need an immidiate revolution.

If we boycott some things that harm environment which will forse their manufactors to shutdown their industries ................. but one mens ( and ofcorse womens)effort is not going to do any thing we ned to unite.

One of the most common arguments against shifting to an environmentally sustainable economy is that industry will suffer. I have found the opposite. In fact, restructuring the global economy according to the principles of ecology represents the greatest investment opportunity in history. What we need is an Environmental Revolution comparable to the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

The Agricultural Revolution involved restructuring the food economy, shifting from a nomadic life-style based on hunting and gathering to a settled life-style based on tilling the soil. Although agriculture started as a supplement to hunting and gathering, it eventually replaced it almost entirely. The Agricultural Revolution eventually cleared one tenth of the earth’s land surface of either grass or trees so it could be plowed and planted to crops. Unlike the hunter-gatherer culture that had little effect on the earth, this new farming culture literally transformed the earth’s surface.

The Industrial Revolution has been under way for two centuries, although in some countries it is still in its early stages. At its foundation was a shift from wood to fossil fuels, a shift that set the stage for a massive expansion in economic activity. Indeed, its distinguishing feature is the harnessing of vast amounts of solar energy stored beneath the earth’s surface as fossil fuels. While the Agricultural Revolution transformed the earth’s surface, the Industrial Revolution is transforming the earth’s atmosphere.

The additional productivity that the Industrial Revolution made possible unleashed enormous creative energies. It also gave birth to new life-styles and to the most environmentally destructive era in human history, setting the world firmly on a course of eventual economic decline.

The Environmental Revolution resembles the Industrial Revolution in that each is dependent on the shift to a new energy source. And like both earlier revolutions, the Environmental Revolution will affect the entire world.

There are differences in scale, timing, and origin among the three revolutions. Unlike the first two, the Environmental Revolution must be compressed into a matter of decades. The other revolutions were driven by new discoveries, by advances in technology, whereas this revolution, while it will be facilitated by new technologies, is being driven by our need to make peace with nature.

There has not been an investment situation like this before. The $1.7 trillion that the world spends now each year on oil, the leading source of energy, provides some insight into how much it could spend on energy in the eco-economy. One difference between the investments in fossil fuels and those in wind power, solar cells, and geothermal energy is that the latter are not depletable.

For developing countries dependent on imported oil, the new energy sources promise to free up capital for investment in domestic energy sources. Not many countries have their own oil fields, but all have wind and solar energy waiting to be harnessed. In terms of economic expansion and job generation, these new energy technologies are a godsend. Investments in energy efficiency will grow rapidly simply because they are profitable. In virtually all countries, saved energy is the cheapest source of new energy.

No sector of the global economy will be untouched by the Environmental Revolution. In this new economy, some companies will be winners and some will be losers. Those who participate in building the new economy will be the winners. Those who cling to the past risk becoming part of it.

Answer 8

I hate to be a pessimist, but the world will not come together. The simple fact is that in order to be eco-friendly, we will have to give up some basic comforts and quality of life, and most nations simply don't have the political will to do it. I'm afraid we're beyond the point of no return.

Answer 9

i also am doing all these things to help keep my part clean and environmental.

im 19 with 2 kids and a husband living on our own. We are sick of the fortnightly bin runs and even sometimes they dont even come and take the bins out.

We also dont get the recycling scheme here so we do our part by recycling all things recycable and will drive to the local supermarket once a week to recycle our waste.

If wanting to start a petition or something to get people to realise how much it means to help the environment please email me and we can think of ideas ourselves to help other people to do this

Answer 10

I recycle beer by urinating in a circle around my tomato plants.

Answer 11

What do you think this is the 70s .People don't come together anymore .