the environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. there could be no greater

Question

misconception of its meaning than to believe it is concerned only with endangered wildlife, human-made ugliness, and pollution. these aer part of it, but more importantly, the crisis is concerned with the kind of creatures we are and what we must become in order to survive.
-lynton K. Caldwell

a. what kind of creatures do you think we are?
b. what must we become in order to survive?

Answer 1

a. Selfish with with little consideration of other living things, including people in other countries, future generations and our own children. Greedy and misguided so we do not recognize our own consumption and role we ourselves play in overpopulation.

b. Considerate of other people, future generations, our children and all other living things.

Limit our consumption of everything including self limiting the size of our own family.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

a. We are silly creatures who panic that all the wrong things. We say people should give up cars to save the world from global warming, even though nobody has been killed by global warming. But we barely notice that 50,000 people die every year in the U.S.alone in car accidents. Imagine what the environmentalists would say if 50,000 people in the U.S. died every year due to global warming!

b. We must become much more reasonable, clear headed, cooperating, thinking, reasoning, loving, tolerant, just, informed, humble, fearless people.

Answer 4

people who want convinence reguardless of the wastefullness that comes with it. recycle,,when i was young you could buy a pepsi cola for a dime and if you brought the bottle back they would give you a nickle for it,we spent hours and walked miles collecting bottles to return for money,,,why not now?add a dime a bottle and refund on return,,could they recycle fast enough?