I think we are going in wrong direction - we're putting too much pressure on global warming (which hasn't been 100% proven not to be a natural way of being or that we're - in fact - experiencing a global cooling) instead of coping witch such substantial problems as waste or bio-degradable materials.

Bio-fuels had proven to be not the greatest solution (it has a huge share in creating recent famine problem) and such products as hybrid-cars or other seemingly 'eco' stuff are nothing more than fashion items, rather than products bought by eco-aware consuments.

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To a certain extent I agree with teanah. Eco-cars are just non-existent. The energy that goes into making a new car is not worth the fact that it'll burn half the normal amount of petrol in it's lifetime. Take the bus, or cycle.

We have a weird mentality in the western world that we can take and take and take and bad stuff only happens to people who deserve it. We seem unable to comprehend our own self-destruction.
A bit like having a massive over draft at the bank and claiming you didn't spend the money. Whether you did or not doesn't make the overdraft go away, and when that bill comes in you pay up or eat dirt..

Does that make any sense??

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I think the real answer would be somewhere between your first two options: it may well be too late, but it'd be damned irresponsible not to try to avert the worst.
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If we can prevent global warming, we sure as hell are going about it the wrong way.
Human overpopulation needs to end THIS SECOND. There are entirely too many people on the earth as is. We as a species need to stop reproducing and stop using up resources the way we do.
Recycling plastic bottles does nothing, and this is the problem. People think that global warming disappears every time they don't throw away their dasani bottle. If we can prevent it, we're going to have to use legislation, education, and sterilization. Otherwise people are going to keep breeding and behaving like idiots, and the planet and all other organisms are going to continue to suffer.

Of course it may just be a natural, normal occurrence that we can do nothing about. I highly doubt industrialization helped, though.

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We COULD change the outcome, but the main culprits are showing no signs of changing any of their business practices, so I would be stunned silly if it's progress was slowed or stopped.

Global warming is very real for us in Adelaide.
The river flows in the Murray River are so low that the estuarine lakes (that's a laugh, there hasn't been any free flow of water over the mouth in 20 years) the Estuarine lakes are almost to acid for fish to live in.
Anyway It's just one part of a systemic breakdown along with fisheries collapse worldwide, the loss of top order predators (a very bad symptom), massive deforestation leading to topsoil erosion and landslides, decline in air and water quality, the worldwide demise of frogs, bees, butterflies and all sorts of migratory birds.

Human beings are left over ice age mega-fauna along with cave bears and woolly mamoths. Over 90% of the species on Earth are smaller than us and no other specie as big as us herds in such large numbers.
When a specie experiences a population explosion it will quickly thrive until it exceeds the carrying capacity of the land and then there will be a serious crash in numbers either because predators have increased as a result of all the fresh meat or as a result of the grazing being eaten out.
This planet needs a serious drop in population. Now we can do all the things we have tried before, war, genocide, epidemic and famine or THIS time for the first time in history we can get some of our eggs out of the planetary basket.
I know which I would vote for.

As a side note. For those who would have us save all those dollars or roubles or yen or whatever on space travel with flesh and blood people and spend it on the "needy" of this world ultimately that is a vain excercise because only more room will solve the problem and there's only one place I know of where more room is to be had... straight up.
Besides it isn't spent on the "needy" now, only on more bullets

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the human population is up WAY to high and it's using up all of our resources. We have medicine that keeps us alive longer. We don't even have to work that hard at surviving, too. Think about it. We get our food from grocery stores. We lounge around on the couch for hours watching TV. as the technology gets better, we have to work even less at surviving.

another problem is that we hardly kill anyone in the jailing system. Someone will get sentenced to life in prison, and after repeal after repeal, they MIGHT get the death sentence. Less than 200 years ago, we were hanging people for petty theft right and left.

this is a wonderful poll.... i gotta read all the comments of people...

i always follow news from a lot of websites and articles and still hope that we can bring a change if we can think and implement the necessary actions in all levels...

it is a complicated and a huge problem that the whole world is facing, almost entirely because of human action on the resources... still there can be a positive change only with our sincere contribution... and thats the hardest thing to implement...
population - consumerism can be said to be the main aspect that needs to be focussed... the behaviour of a consumer reflects the heights of damage caused to the nature, and only a change in the thought and choice of consuming of this consumer can bring a change in this...
The tools to bring such a change can be quality and unbiased education, broadcast media with real content, and individual contribution with changes in the lifestyle and a discrimination in the choice of purchase/buying....

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Sorry about the rantiness of the other thing, we still can make a difference though.

I also wanted to mention that since so many of our cities are sited near good agricultural land we are covering our best topsoil with suburban carparks.

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I propose that it is never too late, as long as we are still here and breathing we can make a change for the better. And for that matter I think and feel that we are about to embark on that change, whether we want to or not.

I agree with most things said here, there are too many people on this planet, but who should live and who should die? Not that we will have a choice but It seems that the rich will live and the poor and needy will die, which is most unfortunate as, that will not give us the strongest genes for the pool. e

We consume too much, and everything we consume needs to be thrown away, as a designer I am continually reminded that everything I market or design will one day be trash, and I found these little gems in a design book about 5 years back.

"our role as designers is crystal clear to respond to nature - both the nature of the material we are working with, which will become trash and the nature of man to create trash"

"we comfort ourselves making things that seem to stay the same, we honor what does not change, but it is change itself- the vapour and the energy and opportunity that made us and that we need to embrace"

" Its when we lose confidence, when we are afraid, that we cling most to the past, to failed conventions, collapsed principles, the faith sustained on belief no matter what and put all our energy into trying to support those principles instead of looking at what is really going on"


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