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Stuffing our environment
"Sacha" wrote in message oups.com... George.com wrote: "Mike" wrote in message ... rob don't worry. The Earth has been here for 36,000,000,000 years give or take a year or two and man has only been here the thickness of a coat of paint. Nothing, repeat nothing man can do will destroy this earth, spoilt it yes, but like all wounds, it will heal. Come back in 36 thousand million years and there will be no sign of man's short inhabitance and everything will be OK :-)) Mike a point of clarification required to my post Mike. Exactly, the earth will exist in some way beyond our existence. My angst is us living within its carrying capacity as opposed to forcing an ecological melt down that all but sends us back to the stone age, thereby giving the earth time and space to recover from our stupidity. The issue of us pulling back before we do root our future existence is the focus of my post. I'm very sympathetic to your pov and I think that people are becoming more and more aware of the need to respect the world in which we live AND its resources. However, I think too, that to all too many such thinking is a luxury because poverty does not tend to enable grand gestures. Nor of course, does greed. I don't begin to have any answers to this but when you have people destroyng rain forest so that they can have land to farm on or timber to sell and at the other end of the scale, a country like USA refusing to sign up to the Kyoto treaty, there's still one helluva struggle going on. Nonetheless, I'm an optimist and I think people in the 'enlightened' world are beginning to get there. too slow, way to slow at present rates I believe to turn round the mess we have made. Sure, people are becoming aware and efforts are being made to clean up some of the damage we have done but that doesn't counter balance the continuing degredation going on around us all. I am more aware than many and I am changing basic things but my lifestyle is masisvely unsustainable. The lack of significant change frustrates the hell out of me. My wife brings back fking plastic bags from the super market by the truck load and doesn't even think about it despite all the times I tell her not to. Its ingrained in collective psyches. It makes me want to throw a brick through someones window. rob |
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