U. N. Environment Report Brings Some Very Bad News

It's no dream. Acknowledging the reality of pollution, and its result, is not the same as dreaming it.

 

This is very important news indeed, everyone should pass this along... the word absolutely needs to be spread.

 

I am well aware about the size of the earth, and its size is finite. Its not big enough to be an endless garbage disposal, sooner or later the garbage will begin to back up. You can visit any uninhabited beach anywhere in the world today and you will find plastic garbage, from pole to pole. Its thinking like this, that the earth is endless and can take what ever we wish to do with it thats the problem. Denying these things are happening is not going to make it stop and go away.

 

Pollution and it's effects are the result of lack of awareness of our own processes.

People don't take this news seriously because they believe, today is not my day to die. They believe there is time to get to those things that may seem troubling.

There never has been any time. If it does not occur now, it does not occur.

 

It is a shame, but it seems that the only question on a lot of people's minds is: How badly can we scar the face of our Earth without actually killing her?

 

Your question should be " how badly can we scar the earth without actually killing us?" What left of the earth will be here long after we leave.

 

Well with all thats happening already in 2012 do you think its BS??

 

It is near impossible for us to "kill" the earth. We have only been here for a few hundred thousand years, really nothing when you consider the earth's ~10bn year lifespan.

However, we can do a pretty decent job of eliminating most life forms. That is already well underway. To those who believe it is just scare tactics and propaganda, you need to wake up to reality. Our oceans are riddled with plastic, resources are exploited to the point of extinction - in the cases of some fish, certain fishing companies actually aim to make the species extinct in order to sell the meat at a higher price 5-10 years after extinction. Farmers, even in areas severely inflicted with starvation, do not grow food, but tobacco, cotton and other cash crops.

Profit is the problem. There is no such thing as "enough" and there is only concern with profit maximization, no concern for how we ensure profit. This profit, the holy grail of the massive corporations that now in effect rule the world, comes at a terrible cost of suffering for humans and animals alike.

There are a few colossal environmental problems we are faced with as a species, presumably they are all mentioned in the report, but we are running out of time to act, and not many people have the will to act; indeed, most are blissfully oblivious of the perils we are faced with and would rather worry about how many friends they have on Facebook and the latest accomplishments of Justin Bieber

 

I thought Orison meant to look at the size of the garbage patches on Google Earth.

There are the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the North Atlantic Garbage Patch, and the Indian Ocean Garbage Patch.

 

My apologies if I misunderstood Orisons post. But as far as garbage patches go, there are 5, one in the north Pacific, one in the south Pacific, north Atlantic, south Atlantic, and the last in the Indian ocean.

 

Quite sad but most likely true Skip

 

I agree plastic pollution is a serious concern. It's a personal concern of mine. We should start using less plastic and/or using biodegradable plastics. The plastic in the oceans will break down, if not through biodegradation, then through photodegradation (of course, this creates toxic byproducts, but the nature of the issue is fundamentally altered). The planet will reverse the damages, so saving the planet is really a misnomer as it's applied to environmental concerns - it's really more about human impacts. Anthropogenic environmental disturbances will prove detrimental to some forms of life, but, in a classic survival of the fittest way, life will go on because the species less vulnerable will continue to exist.

 

Wow! That's a big one.

I'm guessing the only way to raise consciousness is through education. How else could you do it?

 

Start with the causes of complacency...

Overwork

Underpaid

No time because of overwork

No money because underpaid

Ok, now that's resolved we have a solution...

Get a good paying job so we'll have more time to be politically active.

 

People prefer comfort to causes.

 

I was just joking but serious too.

My guess about the problem of complacency is that it has do with western lifestyle brought to us by corporate media.

There's a reason why it cost big money to get a message out. The high cost keeps undesirable messages suppressed.

 

You can lead iformation to the sheeple
But you cant make sheeple think

 

the dickens you say...

 

Someone said, in another thread, that it might be helpful to stop considering others as "sheeple". I agree that it automatically sets up a mind set of superior knowledge and that puts anyone you attempt to talk to about things in a position of defense. Not the best way to win others over to a cause even if you don't call them that to their face. It probably still comes across as a bit condescending.