What do you think is the most critical issue facing the environment today?

I think it's air pollution. I think it's one of the primary reasons why more people have asthma now than they did even 10 years ago. I have asthma.

 

There is no one worst thing. Since everything is interconnected, the one affects the other. It's a tangled, messy web we've created, and it's all bad news. I think Global Warming is very far-reaching and could be devestating. Overpopulation is a big one too, especially as India and China industrialize, the process of environmental degredation will speed up (which is unfortunate, because it would be good to see the people there rise from poverty, but it's sad it has to be at the expense of the environment).

 

exactly

 

Global warming does seem the worst, especially if you live on a coast....but they are all interconnected.... Let's not forget the rising amounts of CO2 and lowering amounts of oxygen that comes with global warming. Also, The depletion of *safe* drinking water, all aquifers on the planet drying up, the pollution of every single lake and river, etc etc....the list is endless

 

good points but you forgot to say republicans

 

ROLFLMFAO
That is freakin hilarious!

I say Global Warming ( as a joint venture between deforestation and industrialization). Population is a concern, but it is self regulating. When we get too many people on this rock they are going to start to die. Bad for us, but the environment could care less. Pollution (other than greenhouse) is another big issue, but we are conscious of it and (at least in the western world) have made great steps to clean our water and air (although Bush has rolled back some of this, the clean air and water acts have gotten better every year (except the last four).
If global warming continues we may very well see a mass extinction on the level of the dinosaurs. In which case most humans will ie and in a few thousand years life will again acheive a balance.

 

mention republicans..... ???

The Republicans go without saying... dumb fucking sheep.

The thing about global warming is that; we... we humans, can rectify the problem of air pollution with little effort. The thing about that is that big corporations are not willing to spend the money on simple scrubbers or other emmision clean-up mechanics.

Global warming is here. No scientist in his right mind would deny that fact. What we are doing to the environment all living things exist in by burning coal and fossil fuels is unconscionable. There are better ways available, but none that can opt for money saving on a corporate thinking level... and that's where the decisions get made. Fuck.

What happens with global warming is that the ice caps in the artic and antartic get warmed also. Normally, the cold water from the polar caps sinks to drive the currents that cause the One Ocean on the Earth to flow. Cold sinks... Warm rises.

Ocean Currents drive the weather. When the polar caps melt, the atmosphere warms, and the cold water doesn't sink to the bottom of the ocean to raise the warm water and create a flow... the One Ocean becomes stagnant.

When that happens, greenhouse gases or not, the climate will become rapidly cold. I mean extremely cold. Within 10 years of the ceasation of ocean currents, the world will will be dramatically taken to an Ice Age that will envelope the northern most cities of the world like NY, Chicago, Moscow and all of northern Europe, in mile high layers of ice. A new ice age will be upon the earth in record time. All life will have to move to the Equatorial regions of the planet or die.

So... I say that biggest problems we face today, evironmentally speaking, are greenhouse gasses. An easy problem to correct... but then again, we did forget to mention the Republicans, didn't we?

Love,
Sam

 

i vote for depletion of freshwater aquifiers as the scariest thing threatening us human beings. land management is my #2, but it's sort of an american problem. we need communities again. we need to be able to walk to work and to the market and to our neighbors houses.

 

Global warming, people as apathetic beings, greedy corporations, George Bush, etc etc...

 

All of the above.

It's sad really. I feel so helpless and angry that more people just don't seem to give a rip about their environment, they just take it for granted. *sighs*

 

I think the air and water pollution/deforestation/ecoside are equally bad, its all weakening the planet

 

All of it. We can't just keep throwing band-aids around and expect anything to get any better.

 

i'd say mankind.

 

I change my answer to "The Bush Administration."

Fuck I'm depressed...

 

This is typical.Nobody has mentioned biological pollution.A far bigger problem than global warming.

 

Education...

Enjoy your global warming..!

The weathermen in the UK call it "exciting"!

Did you know that after the "global warming" there is an ice age......

It's nothing "New"....the earth has been doing this for 100's of thousands of years....

We are mere specks in the timeline....nature will do what she does, regardless of us...

Cars!....

That's what's causing the most pollution today...then "Man"....just man....we are killing the only hope we have......

Space is cold, there is no gravity, it is dark....humans would last about 15 seconds in space before loosing consciousness and dying.....No, our little blue planet is truly a "miracle".....

We have to find a "miracle" too.....

Comprend'e ?


strawpup


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You might like to read these three links:

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/ulp1.html

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/ulp2.html

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/ulp3.html

BTW I see from your signiture that you think that a vegan diet is healthy for every stage of life.Have you heard of the the case of Celab Moorhouse? This baby boy's parents were SDA. They believed that adherence to a strict vegan diet would lead to salvation and better health.Instead their baby boy died from anemia due to a lack of B12 in the mother's breast milk.At their trial for manslaughter this couple's faith was so strong that they decided on no legal representation.They were both sentenced to five years' jail each.

 

we need communities again. we need to be able to walk to work and to the market and to our neighbors houses.

I totally agree, I mean I love technology and all but what happened to going outside and enjoying what nature has to offer us. I feel that the water supply is as well a very big problem....What is going to happen when we run out of our supplies?????

 

What do you mean by biological pollution? Do you mean things like dioxins and PCBs ending up in the biota?

The thing about global warming is that we don't really know what the long term impacts are going to be. Potential worst case scenarios would make global warming the most far reaching environmental problem, bringing about sudden climatic changes with an impact lasting 100s of years. On the other hand, it could be that life on earth simply adapted to a slower climatic change. Invoking the precautionary principle, I'd have to vote global warming.

 

No I meant things like foxes and rabbits in Australia.There are also plenty of weeds that cannot be killed with glyphosphate.