It is frustrating and absolutely dissapointing to me that Global Climate Change has become such a serious issue. Not one person can say they don't see the changing temperature, climate and overall enviroment. It has now gotten to the point where even animals' lives are being threatened because they cannot adapt fast enough to these rapidly changing conditions.
Along with shrinking glaciers, coral bleeches and rising sea level, there are even more changes that most Americans tend to ignore and assume their lives will remain content and undisturbed. What about the enviroment and the animals that are ultimately being tortured under the conditions we have contributed to change. What about the future? Will is be safe? Dangerous? Or will we, humans simply remain ignorant and rude to the suffering enviroment that has helped us survive since we arrived on Earth?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
It's not so much a ignorance issue as it is a priority issue. Pick anywhere on the globe right now and you'll find more pressing issues than the slow erosion of the planet's environment.
War, hunger, crime, corruption, economics. All of these issues earn more attention from the public because it's an immediate impact. All of us won't be alive when the world's rivers turn to 50%sludge and the air has a permanent smoggy haze.
In the end, it boils down to two things. Procrastination and overpopulation. Until certain immediate effects are felt, (the ones that were stated in the initial post I disagree with, I haven't noticed any environmental changes) we're just not going to care as a society. For better or for worse. It's just apathy.
“It is frustrating and absolutely dissapointing [sic] to me that Global Climate Change [sic] has become such a serious issue,” is a statement that I agree with. However, I cannot help but to point out a few things.
First, animals have always been changing and evolving. Second, temperature change is not the problem, population is. The earth only has so many natural resources. With the birth rate increasing (in many third world nations), the infant fatality rate decreasing, and life expectancy increasing. These natural resources are being used up very quickly. Due to this, it is an unfortunate fact that no matter what humans try to do to improve the environment, as long as the population increases, so will pollution.
I would also like to point out that some pollution is for good cause, as there are factories that, yes, do pollute; however, in the process, they are producing medicine and plastics and other products that have helped to advance our civilization.
As to the statement: “Or will we, humans simply remain ignorant and rude to the suffering enviroment [sic] that has helped us survive since we arrived on Earth?” I feel as though it is a grotesque, sweeping generalization. Humans are not remaining ignorant; look at what CCSU is doing all around campus in its recycling efforts. Perhaps it should be made clear that only some humans are ignorant. Furthermore, the environment has, yes, helped us survive, but has also hindered our survival, at times.
Your argument hits, head-on, an issue that is very controversial. You word your statements in an intricate way, trying to arise emotion. Good job; however, proof reading is a must. Your argument would seem more credible if you correctly spelled environment. Also, I am not sure if you meant beaches in saying “coral bleeches?”
***With the birth rate increasing (in many third world nations), the infant fatality rate decreasing, and life expectancy increasing, natural resources are being used up very quickly.
Earth as a planet cannot continually support human life. You can argue until you are blue in the face, but as the population continues to rise, access to the finite resources that make the world go around is going to become more and more limited. Eventually these things will run out, civilization will grind to a halt, and gradually regress into tribe warfare over the few remaining resources on the planet. Basically, we're all doomed anyway.
With that in mind, we need to balance our remaining time on a precarious tightrope between cleaning up our existing industry and preserving basic human rights. Thus we can extend this doomed experiment called existence until a time perhaps where infinite sustainability is possible, but we should not become slaves to the state in the process. What I mean to say is, I'm not ready to give up my big American cars and capitalist way of life for a future I won't ever see. This may sound callous and cold, but I figure I've only got one chance at this life gig and I'm going to get everything I can out of it.
Everyday enviromental advances are being made and thanks to the recent recession the interest in energy efficiancy seems to have risen in relation to the plunging value of the dollar. If this trend continues (which based on American attention spans, it won't) we may one day attain harmonay with Earth. But with the number of developing nations far outweighing the number of nations concerned with global warming, and with economic monsters China and India growing up side by side, what interest there was in sustainability could be gone.
In the meantime there is no need to adopt drconian enviromental laws such as in Belgium, where it costs you 20 Euro (forty US bucks!) to just light up your bar-be-que. We're all doomed anyway, so we might as well have a steak and a beer.
Post a Comment