Do you care about the ecological destruction?

That's true and i' m with you. We can do many small things. Like planting plants which can store more Co2 and release the same amount of oxygen. Or turning off the lights when we leave a room. Replant. Has anyone ever tried to do this? My junior school used to take us to mountains to replant certain damaged areas and sometimes in association with ecological organizations.

Furthermore, schools can teach students about ecology and make them more sensitive and sensible about this matter through special activities and classes.

But, i see most of you talking about charities. Charities respond mainly to humans and not the environment. Okay, help the victims of Katrina but this has nothing to do with the environmental issues.

 

First of all, you are thinking of nuclear fission which is the splitting of atoms by colliding them together. That is the dangerous one, that is the one that produces large amounts of dangerous radiation. Admittedly, fusion still produces radioactive substances, but nowhere near the same level as fission. Also, a working fusion generator (i.e. one that has run for like more than a day -__-) has still to be created (although a few are in construction). After that, a way of making them commercially viable will be needed. Fusion is harnessing the power of the sun on earth, and is IMO the way forward in terms of electrical generation.

Secondly, wind is all good, but produces very little electricity compared to fossil fuels. With hydrogen cells, you could power cars AND the national grid (I'd like to see you drive around with a wind turbine on your car) with the only byproduct being water. Again, the problem is building an economically viable prototype that is safe enough to be used by the public (hydrogen is extremely flamable and explosive, see Hindenburg Disaster.

Link for Nuclear Fusion and Hydrogen Cells.

Do you know that at night plants respire? Meaning, they breathe like we do at night, taking in oxygen and giving out CO2. Plants help the environment by trapping carbon dioxide. The ocean also does this. In liquids the solubility of gases increases when it is colder, this means that during the night and winter the oceans can hold more CO2, while in summer and during the day they let it out. (Lol, btw the symbol for carbon dioxide is CO2, sorry pet hate drilled into me by my chemistry teacher -__-').

 

Look, humans were never in the equations between the ice age, pollution is not a natural process, no other species has killed some many and made them extinct, its not so natural for the deaths and slaughter of so many, telling someone thats the survival of the fitest is not smart, at this rate humans will be the only animals left on Earth, thats not natural. And the extinction of species is still happening, pollution still roams the Earth, and now-a-days we know the consequences but still humans keep up the killing and pollution leading humanity to eventually die from their own greed of a 'civillisation'.
And the part about me existing, I don't care about stuff like life or death, I mean I care about the deaths that humans keep doing, humans make natural things unnatural, they farm animals growing them for food, I respect that creature kill for food, but humans have made a business out of it, if humans didn't exist the world would be better, animals woud have freedom, if I could help the world from the pain it endures from humans I wouldgive my very life, but that won't help, people think I'm crazy, for just wanting to help Earth, I stand by my beliefs and will.

 

If humans didn't exist would the world have a point? There would be no-one to record the wonders of the Earth, no-one to appreciate it's beauty and wonder. And I think your view of humanity is a gross over-simplification. The people doing that main damage are in the minority. Do you see people in your street stamping on plants and shooting out of the sky for the heck of it? No.

Pollution is a long term problem, it will take decades if not centuries to sort out. If you can think of a way of stopping creating pollution right now without causing the complete collapse of civilisation and the death of millions, I'd like to hear it. I'm all for protecting the environment, but I'm sick of people saying "OMG STOP POLLUTING!!" and not offering up any relalistic and practical method of doing so. All you are doing is making noise and pushing possible supporters of your cause away.

 

Your thinking with the mind of a human, (yes I know you have one) but if you look through the eyes of other animals, you would see (in the point of an animal) the death of your brothers and sisters, humans coming into your land building over it and you having to move your herd or family just to survive, think about being a cow, today it would be grown for milk or meat, your hearded into a slaughter house when your only a few years old, killed in a painfull way and in the end their will be a family eating your meat and half it will be thrown away to the trash, in the end even in the end after being created for meat, your meat is still wiasted, I know the pain of the creatures in this world, they are only allowed to live because humans have use for them, if they didn't the would be eventually killed, only a small number of humans want to make a difference, but the more they make a difference for one aspect like caring for rare animals, trees and plants are destroyes and vica versa. I just wish to see the world without these problems humans keep creating. And You can't make a place where the world is healthy while the humans are in this age, creating this much pollution. I said that I would, others wouldn't make such a sacrafice.

 

Our Principal was talking about it a 100 times, but it's not me polluting the world, I don't have 2-3 cars that I use, I'm not cutting down trees in forests, I'm doing, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. I think they should come up with eco-friendly ways of improving the Enviorment such as Windmills, and last summer was the hottest one yet, it's a warning.

 

Well, of course I care. The world's dramatically changing in a negative way because of how stupid some people are. I remember before it got this out of hand. The planet's one of the the ONLY things mankind really has, and yet it's being taken for granted.

 

Hecks yea man. If ecological destruction happens, were screwed for good. Where are we gona get materials for survival and stuff. Everything is made from ecology composite materials one way or another. Destruction means the end of the world.

As for helping, I'd say recycle or something like that. I've never really thought about what I should do.

 

You don't get it do you? I mean plants like bamboo which can store 33 percent more CO2 than most of the plants. Never good at chemistry...

 

The fading ozone layer really worries me, we are all going to end up with cancer if people continue polluting the air so much. The other day I was in a room with three of my friends, each of which were using and overly excessive amount of their own hairspray bottle. I was like: "Wow, I think I just felt the ozone layer diminish a level." Honestly, they could have at least shared a single bottle. Not that they even needed the product in the first place.

 

Well sure I do. I mean, we're all going to choke to death if we don't try to get rid of a bunch of the pollution in the world...

 

I agree. we are screwing up this planet like hell. and 99% of the sick bastards out there dont give a ****.

 

Well, we do aid in things, and make it worse, sure, but do not forget also that nature itself does things. Volcanoes erupting causes a lot of damage, earthquakes cause things to happen, tsunamis and tornadoes, hurricanes etc. Also, we are in an interglacial period where the ice caps are melting and we have moved it along but there is nothing to suggest that these things would not happen at a slower pace any way. It seems that by studies done, the depletion of the ozone layer may not be as irregular as people think, although there is definite study done to say we are increasing this quite a bit. It used to be predicted that the earth temperatures per year would rise 2 degrees due to the interglacial status we are in, but now it is higher and can be 4 degrees. This seems 'small' but it's not, as we can see by the effects to the ice caps and glaciers in the north and south. Also, the axis of the earth is altering.

I am not truly sure how we can adjust these things but to try to slow down on what people to do. Now with China also lending to more pollution that even topped the U.S., well, we are in for some rocky roads with this. People often come to the conclusion humans are -totally- to blame, but it's not true. However, we are accelerating issues so if we can also slow things down, then we should try to. As I said before, doing small things helps a bit and at least you know that what you do contribute and others do, it can add up.

 

I heard this just recently: Apparently, scientists are trying to get people (I think mainly farmers) to cut back on large herds of cattle, sheep, etc. for food for ecological reasons, mainly global warming. Some are actually admitting that it's not just humans that are the problem.