No, not once did I say to stop everything. I wasn't saying anything like that at all. What I did say, however, is that the humans are still making our environment worse. You can't just say "oh, we have to cope and make it better" when clearly no effort is being made, especially around corporate companies, to change the Earth at all. Every day, you see another person throwing their trash on the ground, driving a car, and even smoking. All of these factors contribute to everything that has been wrong with our Earth. It wasn't until humans evolved that the Earth started to crumble (evolve as in have bigger brains and think we're all that just because we have hands to make tools when other animals do not).
You can't say that absolutely nothing is being done. You posting here is an effort in itself to spread awareness.
Then what makes you different from litterers, polluters, and smokers? You are human too. You can't judge the aspects of the entire race by the actions of some. That's the pessimistic attitude that makes people lose hope in salvation in the first place. As long as there are some, even a minority, there can be change.
Also, I don't like this "evolve" thing. As it is, we are still evolving - both physically and mentally. Slowly the races are homogenizing and the people are adapting to the environment. If you want humankind to stop evolving, then become an advocate of cloning.
As we change, so will our surroundings. That's a quote that I just can't live with. The world has become so morally corrupt that it's an epidemic. On the streets, you see drug dealers, hit and runs, and much, much more corruption. If we change this way, our Earth will also become corrupt. That's pretty much what you've just said.
Are we talking about morals or the environment? At first I thought we were discussing the matter of air, water, pollution, energy, etc.
That is why there are dedicated people against crime. Crime rates aren't necessarily going up or down.
We are not the one that control the environment. The population of mammalian, four-legged created have contributed (in a good way) to the environment more than humans have or ever will. If anyone, the credit for all of the lush green forests that have been untouched by the destructive human hands goes to the animals.
And naturally destroyed lands have also been repaired by those same "destructive" hands.
Mammals, not barring humans, do squat for the environment. They seek only to destroy and sustain their own life. They greedily battle their own race for superiority and kill other animals. Did you know that when an alpha male lion defeats another tribe, he proceeds to eat all of the other tribe's cubs and then rapes all the females to ensure he is the superior one?
Did you know that orcas capture baby sea lions on the shore and wrangle them until they are unconscious, then swim out to sea with them in order to throw them meters into the air as sport? Sure they aren't 4-legged, but they are just as savage as the lion.
What about the methane produced from the cow's diet?
Though, I can agree that plants and bacteria have contributed much, much more to the ecosystem than humans have. Plants give life to our mammalian friends (and of course, the other ones which you neglected to mention too, but apparently they played no role in creating the environment). By contrast, bacteria are responsible for weeding out all of the weaker tribes. Call me Devil's advocate, but those species would have died out anyway if they couldn't even fight off a single-celled killing-machine.
Once again, you've lost me. How can you say that we don't have enough wind and sun? There is plenty of these resources and much more resources that we can use without harming the environment.
Oh, by the way. We don't spill oil out into the ocean as a goal. Oil spills aren't really a direct use of resources to harm the environment.
Yes, and look how far they've gotten. That's exactly what I've been trying to say: We don't need guns. Even then, though, there are a few more deaths by animal killings in such tribes rather than in urban areas. However, this is only because we've tread onto animal turf.
Humans haven't "tread" on to anyone's turf but their own. The Earth belongs to them as much as it belongs to the animals. Humans are animals and therefore have the same rights as our furred, scaled, winged, tailed, eight-legged, single-celled, spiked, amphibious buddies.
And yes, "look how far they've gotten." In your perspective, great. Life. Happy. In reality, nowhere at all. Devil's advocate again, but "sticks-and-stones" really gets nowhere. Instead, it enforces the idea of clinging to the past and rejecting the future. The world is changing, even without human interference. Denial doesn't change that.
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They are strong and gigantic: Fact. However, as I've said, humans have increased temperatures by up to 10 degrees. This is too much. The Polar Bears and Penguins are dying in the Arctic and many, many people in the tropics are becoming overheated. So don't try to blame this on anyone or anything else but the humans. It's already a fact.
I don't know how to respond to your statement simply because it is so pessimistic. Fine, I'll admit that it was solely the fault of humankind, but what does that do for our chilly, crystallized buddies?
Now you're simply being snarky. I've already said this once and I'm tired of repeating it: Humans are not going to change so easily. It is actually up to people with some common sense to get humans to change their destructive ways. But people that think we can't do anything but cope seem to hold all of the way we can change back. And believe me, there are many, many ways humans can change the world to make it better. We've just become so accustomed to unneeded things (like cars and the like) that we just believe there's no better way to live.
I guess I am just snarky by nature.
Hey, I never said "cope" and the end. I said "cope and develop." The latter word is more important than the former.
Plus, at the current state, there IS no better way to live. If you want to pull a Thoreau on us, then go ahead, but asking the entire world to live in a word devoid of technology would just be insane.
1) You can aruge that guns are a necessity, but, as you've just stated, this brings up things like murdering and big game hunting. Making them something that shouldn't have been invented in the first place.
2) So you're saying that just because we can hold guns, that makes us superior? It's hard to comprehend how you've managed to say that, especially since it isn't true. Nor did I ever say that bears were the superior species. Brains do not mean that we're superior.
3) Then you've obviously misread me.
1. The ends don't refute the means. Guns were necessary as an innovation and nothing else. You can argue that electricity was unnecessary as it fostered the Earth-destroying industry. By contrast, electricity also powers the computer which you type on now. The same goes for stuff like love and thought. If love didn't exist, we wouldn't have hate. If thought didn't exist, we wouldn't have greed or lust. But what are humans without love or thought?
2. Just because we can eat with forks, because we can tell red from blue and right from wrong. Hell, just because we can harness the environment and they cannot. Technically, brains DO mean we are superior. Bears simply don't have them and therefore cannot function at the same capacity as man.
3. Then you obviously haven't been clear enough. You sound pretty much like you think humans are only here to destroy the planet and they are using their superiority as an excuse.
Quote you:
"Even if humans were, that is no excuse to pollute and destroy the planet we live in. And it never will be an excuse."
Problem: There will always be wind and sun. The only time that there wouldn't be sun is at night (even then, the moon always provides light). However, even now with electric power, the electricity goes out, correct? Same thing.
Solar and wind power basically is electrical power, just in a different form. Same thing.
I don't even know about the Soviet Union in general. I am not into things like that, nor do they matter much to me at all.[/center][/COLOR]
Apparently, you are, as
Chernobyl was one of the largest energy-related crises in history.