Contemplative answers regarding our lack of respect for Mother Earth please?

Question

With all the technology at our disposal, with so many wealthy nations, with an accumulated body of knowledge going back many centuries, why aren't we able to begin mending the damage we've done to this planet?

She's a pretty good one as planets go.

Answer 1

Because our knowledge goes back many centuries so does our infrastructure. Most societies are set up in a way that is not environmentally friendly, but these infrastructures are so complex and ingrained it would take billions upon billions to change them. Slowly we are making progress but it won't be noticeable for several generations.
And technology is not neccessarily the answer. Technology assumes we can control the environment when we need to harmonize with it instead.
It's a very resource and change intensive endeavor that few are ready for.

Answer 2

We HAVE begun mending the damage. There are fish in rivers that used to be so polluted that no fish could survive in them. Some of those rivers were so polluted that they caught on fire! Car exhaust is far cleaner than ever with countless engine improvements and catalytic converters and so on. Freon, DDT and other chemicals have been outlawed and replaced with cleaner alternatives. Billions and billions of dollars have been spent and millions of people employed in the effort to clean up polluted places and prevent more pollution. There are more trees in the U.S. now than there were 100 years ago because timber companies have been planting trees, but nobody pays any attention to that. The idea that pollution is worse now is just not true. Pollution per person, especially in the U.S., is far less now than it was. The only problem is that there are more people now, and more countries are becoming industrialized, especially China where the swarms of bicycles that used to travel the streets of Beijing have been replaced by traffic jams of cars. And no mater how cleanly we burn coal and oil, it will always produce CO2. Totally clean burning of hydrocarbon fuel always produces CO. We have cleaned up the NO and CO and unburned hydrocarbons and particulate and all kind of bad contaminants, but the totally pure and perfect combustion product is CO2. That is a natural and necessary gas in the atmosphere, without which plants would die, but we have such a large population and so much fuel being used that the natural balance of CO2 is shifting. This is a new problem. So you are just looking at the new problem and forgetting about all the previous problems that have been so brilliantly solved.

Answer 3

Heres something crazy and wild, long ago threr was one who had sight and could see . He was considered the most beautiful artist and he painted a picture of the earth in his heart, and made all living things. Somehow contaminated matter penatrated the true meaning of the art.. This allowed unintended colors to appear.Far as corruption, greed, and man thinking that he knows everything.We rule ourselveds to our injury. Why soldiers of war use guns and bombs, some only have the human heart, and a strong conviction of what is right and wrong. Be happy . Don't worry the message is clear. Unless intervention is involved we won't be worrying about our earth.Because all of the world governments do not play well together.

Answer 4

When a large part of the planet is struggling just to find food to make it to tomorrow, worries for the future do not get a great deal of time in a lot of places.

Do wealthy nations have an obligation to reduce the population of third world countries to levels where they can be self-sustaining regardless of their cultural ideas on the rights to have children?

Did weatlhy nations well-meaning, but not well planned, efforts to eradicate killer diseases cause an explosion in the human population?

Do wealthy nations actually have an obligation to an impoverished country that refuses to let go of tribal hatreds that lead them to kill their neighbors simply because they are of a different faith, color or tribe?

Just some questions to consider....

Answer 5

perhaps the wealthiness and technology has gotten in the way of environmental progress the same way it has neglected societal ills. much of that wealth and technology is concentrated in the hands of a few, and most of that few are more concerned with keeping it that way than in mending the damage.

sure there are a few philanthropists... and i'm not begrudging anyone the opportunity to make a good life for themselves. but when the standard of living is high 'enough' (and who knows exactly when that is?) it seems easy to imagine the surplus being put to the good of the earth... both its people and its environment.

too idealistic and naive perhaps....

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Show me where the damage is. The earth does more damage to itself than we could ever do. Every aspect of the earth, like ourselves, is living (except for rocks). We just co-exist. Personally, as far as species go, I dare you to name any one other living creature on the face of the earth that gives back anything equal to what it takes. I do know that you will find that Humans are the only ones to give back in close to equal proportions of what they take.

Answer 8

That is a question you need to ask your government, because they are the people who keep us from green technology that already exists. (along with big business who are only interested in making money now, and are too much of cowards to try something new).

Answer 9

Because noone cares, at least, not enough people to do any good or make significant change. If there were, change would have happened already. Humans suck.