Best tip to save environment?

Question

How do you protect and preserve the earth Do you have a quick recycling tip? Maybe you walk to work or drive in a car that saves energy? Give us your best environment saving tip in 400 words or less. Best answer wins 10 points.

Answer 1

There was a time in the Earth's history when there was no life in existence. Is that the environment you think should be saved. Then for millions, even billions of years it was very minimal, just single cell life forms. After that change to higher and higher live forms progressed slowly. There were periods in history when huge  amounts of life forms were buried that now are coal fields and oil reservoirs. One day man appeared on the scene as the most complex life form to date.  The continued progress in the development of life forms seems obvious.

It appears to me that any concern about destruction of the environment is way premature. The obvious way to save the environment is  a broad enough perspective to realize it is still in development. It would seem obvious that a return to a planet where no life exists is imminent, knowing the expectations for the eventual demise of the Sun. The ultimate destiny of the planet is far beyond any control of man to influence. Any effort to control change in the environment would be impossible to measure, as, what would the then existing environment be compared to.

Answer 2

try and consume as little as possible and throw out as little as possible buy second hand using sites like ebay and chairty shops or better still freecycle, (www.freecycle.org)



grow your own veg or if you haven't the space or time buy organic locally produced food that hasn't been processed, veg box schemes rock!

compost and recycle

and use reusable nappies when you have babies! (if you must procreate ;) )

holdiday in places you don't have to fly to (one cross atlantic flight = a whole year of commuting) and walk and cycle as much as you can.

Answer 3

USE LESS STUFF!

...man, all these answers refer to externalities and technical programs to partially remedy the mess we are making, and which only work in the short term, provide a social-behaviour buffer to provide credibility to the argument that it seems ok to continue raping the earth at the current rate.  Sure, let's implement some of these programs - plant trees, recycle sewage, drive more efficient cars, sequester CO2, invest ethically, etc etc.  But unless we change our attitude toward the environment, and see it not as secondary to economy, but rather as a framework within which economy exists (where else do you think the souce product comes from?), we will simply be providing reason for the future generations to extract similar tolls per generation.  

It really is simple in practicality, but a different occam's razor view:

Reduce (your usage of things generally)...

.then..

Reuse (things until they don't serve a useful purpose anymore)..

..then..

Recycle (the things, or their components.  Note that creating waste, eg plastic bags, isn't embodied in this process step.)

...notice that recycling is the last step in this chain, listed in order of priority and effectiveness.

Answer 4

Only eat recycled food.   poo poo pa doo

Answer 5

global warming i dont think can be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,this requires global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

these are Al gores sites

http://events.stepitup2007.org/.........

http://www.stepitup2007.org/

http://events.stepitup2007.org/.........

POSITIVE ACTIONS

if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness

education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

here are a 100 more ways

http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has

come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,

his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003