Was concern for your family's future a big part of why you live a green lifestyle? If yes Why?
2007-10-13 00:29:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
..yah! so that my children/grandchildren could also enjoy life same as we do.
2007-10-13 01:36:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No it wasn't although a concern for future generations in general and younger family members in particular is a part of it.
Why?
I do not believe my lifestyle choices will have anything more than a minute effect in arresting the pace of global warming, and from what I see now, any saving I make will be annihilated by the industrialisation of China and India coupled with failure to reduce pollution in the western world.
Coupled with the rapid approach (and perhaps arrival) at peak oil, it seems clear that the world is changing already, and the effects within our own lifetimes will be dramatic.
It is no longer about stopping those changes for me (although that would be nice) - it is about creating beacons. Living with the great technological advances we have made carving out a sustainable existence, based on biodiversity, energy and community.
Most people I have met and talked with in any depth have an impending sense of doom about the future, however they articulate it - from the apocalyptic Christians to the young adolescents with no faith in a future in which they cannot afford their own home, in which their cities are turning into violent no-go zones populated by the desperate and miserable.
In which the working middle classes pawn away 50 hours a week, commute for another 20, to invest in a future that collapses weekly with another pension fund hitting the rocks.
More than the endless litany of despair and desperation, humanity needs Beacons. It needs hope. And that is something created through action, action taken in good faith without reference to an outcome, for a lifestyle which is its own reward and which, on a personal level, to friends and family and those who want to participate, I can make available in small ways. And I enjoy doing so.
Light the lanterns of hope.
Blessings.
2007-10-13 01:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by Twilight 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
definite public rigidity has led to organization to make green possibilities even though it has additionally unfolded markets to cater to green minded human beings. Do you think of the human beings engaged on image voltaic cells are doing it basically for s**ts and giggles. they want some green to line their pocket. The industry determines what organization produce. no longer plenty call for buggy whips so which you do no longer see that many any further yet there's a call for for TP that has been made out of recycled products that by no potential harmed some lovable fuzzy critter. you have shown, that like our president, you comprehend no longer something approximately how a unfastened industry financial equipment works.
2016-11-08 04:27:55 · answer #3 · answered by colbert 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats easy those who care about Nature our Natural resources ,behaving responsibly adopting green attitudes,obviously care about what kind of future world the next generations will inherit.
And those who oppose ,who care more about money ,mans so called progress for which nature must give way,those who do not care about the forests or the animals .and the skeptics .obviously do not
2007-10-13 10:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋