Are you driven by love, or driven by fear?

Question

What forces you to care for the environment?

Answer 1

personally, I'm driven by LOVE

there's no other word for it, because naturally I (hopefully like any other ...normal...people) love Earth because Earth is where I live and Earth has provided for everyone since forever.

I really wish other people would be compelled (by love or fear...but hopefully more by love) to care for the environment more and make the right choices. The environment is our home, and if our home is gone, where will we go? (now that's more on the fear side...)

don't know if you'll be able to answer this...but what are you driven by?

Answer 2

It is a combination.

A fear that we humans are driving other successful living forms to extinction, as we have been doing for several hundreds of years (remember that the Garden of Eden was in present day Iraq, which is now a desert).

A love of nature and natural ecological symbiosis.

A fear of bears and rattle snakes, although there are ways of avoiding their dangerous situations, and, of course, Tyrannisauris Rex is extinct, which I am not sure but I think that is good.

A love of non-human providence that only nature can provide, but a fear that we are eliminating fertile farm soil and driving ocean "food fish" we humans eat to extinction.

It is too complex of an issue for giving a simple answer like that.

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Answer 3

Fear for now

Answer 4

I'm not sure I'm driven by either one.  Certainly I'm not driven by fear.  I'm driven by a strong need to be as indepenant and self sufficient as possible.  

It helps that I love this lifestyle...thank heavens for that, since I'm wading through knee deep snow to care for the animals the past couple of weeks.

Even though I love this lifestyle, my driving need is for self suffiency.  My husband and I like being independant.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 5

I feel driven when I'm motivated to believe we can really change things.

Answer 6

Until i saw the second part of the question my answer was going to be fear ,

fear of hunger

fear of dependence

as the driving force to keep functioning to survive

But if it is about the Environment

the answer has to be love

Love of Animals

love of Nature in General

its beauty,its complexity

the excitement of discovery.

It is most definitely the love that keeps me ranting about the injustices,the mis managements ,the callous attitudes,the crimes against Nature in general and the specifics .

To make an attempt to maintain as much of this as possible .

not because i fear any of it but because i love it .

And the bad things that have happened , are happening and still will happen does not make me afraid it makes me sad or /and ANGRY

You should have added anger as part of the question.

Answer 7

It depends on which gas I use that day.

Answer 8

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL!!!

FEAR FEAR FEAR

fear and money grease the hinges to the gates to heaven.

Fear is being funded by the governments of the world.

Scientists spreading fear are getting RICH!!!

Al Gore owns a carbon credit company while his own house uses more energy than a neighborhood.

He justifies it by buying carbon credits from himself.

Environmentalism is a religion and fear is the glue that binds all religions together.

Sacred Mother EARTH

Lets restore Human sacrifice to stop global warming!!!

Humans are a cancer on the earth and earth needs to be rid of this cancer