If we don't do something globally we will be globally screwed,or are we already? if so why, by who and at what cost?
208041
You're asking the right questions there, but unfortunately there's no easy answer.\n\nFor such a treaty to be more effective, it would have to include real sanctions for those who do not abide by its rules. Nations, however, are still reluctant to agree to such limitations and interference in domestic affairs. In the US, for instance, there are strong industrial lobbies that would not hesitate to withdraw their support for the administration that adhered to treaties that hurt their businesses.\n\nStudies have shown that the damage done to the environment is beyond its capacity to heal. On the other hand, nobody can force a nation to do anything, because that is a line that should never be crossed. Nobody wants another world war, especially nowadays, as such a full-scale war would definitely include nuclear arsenals and weapons of mass destruction.\n\nSadly, economic interests still dominate international affairs today. What policy makers have to realize is that the damage done to the environment will affect the economies that they were so eager to protect.
606583
No it's not just you. Any right-minded person would be concerned at what we're all doing to our planet.
432885
If you read carefully he meant that the US always makes many mistakes to start with before doing something right !\nNow just look at what is happening in the world and make YOUR choice to say if it's true or not !!!
513918
Im guessing that youre joking....\n\nBut the problem is, too many people share that sentiment. What if youre wrong? Do you really want to leave a legacy to your children that consists of a uninhabitable planet?? \n\nYou people have been predicting the end of the world for 2000 years. Youve been wrong so far. What if you continue to be wrong for another 2000 years??
599252
At least we try. \n\n"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." \n\n-Albert Einstein
423986
Don't know, but we need to do something fast
676104
you can fix that tomorrow. us procrastinators are going to rule the world..... someday.
340987
I've always said that we need to take care of our own first.  The truth is that we could take care of them all, and make things so much better for everyone, if the people in charge of all of this - the politicians and corporate leaders - weren't so d@mn corrupt.
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We haven't been warned of this for the same reason we weren't warned of all the other theories regarding global collapse over the last several....centuries.  Basic science.  \n\nTheory of relativity.  An object at rest will stay at rest till an outside force acts on it.  An object in motion will stay in motion until an outside force acts on it.  Now, lets apply that to the world theatre.\n\nThis theory just uses new "climactic events" in place of the old, but what its saying is that the world is going to go to hell based on these 'events'.  No it wont.  It would take way to much effort on the parts of way to many people for them to care enough for things to change.  \n\nNo one really wants change anymore.  The last major chage in the world was World War II.  Russia giving up communism and going democratic?  Gee, China stepped into that spot, didn't they.  Now the US and China are playing the same game with other countries that the US and the USSR did.  Just another cold war.  Just more status quo.  No one's going anywhere.  Too many people fear change for change to actually occur on a drastic or global scale.  It has to be slow, insideous, and sneak up on people, or it's resisted so completely that it will never happen.  \n\nI'm really not worried.  And if I'm wrong, then its all about surviving the chaos, and our debate doesn't matter.  But I'm not stockpiling guns and canned foods either...  :)
404725
That depends.  In this scenario, is the future set in stone (aka fate) or do we have a role in what happens in the future?
597155
We're not in heaven yet! =) We're still on earth, so yes, we still have environmental disasters which are called "natural" disasters. if we pray, there might be a miracle, but there will still be other disasters. But God promises us that He will be our shelter and comfort in times of trouble. \n\n"Do best for what is possible and let God for the impossible"\nif reducing cardom emissions and researching renewable energies and advanced agriculture reduce environmental  disasters then we should do it. We also pray to God. The two can go together. \n Look at our inventors. Most of them believe in God.
40375
Humanity as an oppertunity to make this world wonderful and peaceful.  It is within our grasp and can be done.  Whether or not it is is entirely up to us.  But I don't think it will be done.  Too many people use things just to be hateful to others that aren't like them for it to happen any time soon.
298053
My south is social genocide on one side and golf courses and $300,000.00 houses on the other. I worry about the environment too, but I'm afraid I may be the only one.  Check out hydrogen power and spread the word to your friends.  It will save our planet if we act.  Also, adaptation is our only means of survival...those who fear change perish....infuse modernity with all things natural...see what you come up with.
630258
it's a scary thought but do you really think we canstop the inevitable??  I think too much damage has already been done.
438035
Don't worry we'll here about it.......Probably won't happen in our lifetime though.
254931
I'd lay pretty good odds that the destruction of a planet in our solar system, and one not even that far from us relatively speaking, would have such catastrophic consequences on the Earth that we'd probably all be destroyed. That is one reason we might resist the otherwise obvious urge to blow up Mars.
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If don't do something we are guilty. If we do something, then we are imperialists. Can't win. Why bother.