Can states reverse the global environmental decline?

Question

Can states reverse the global environmental decline?

Answer 1

It can be done but it requires damage be repaired faster then it happens.  This can be done two ways, the repair of damage would have to be be ramped up and increased more and more until it was repaired faster then it was damaged, or damage done would have to be lessened at the same time it's repair was increased until old and new damage was repaired and new damage minimized and repaired as it happened, which sounds like the best method to me.  Every level of every government needs to take responsibility for the damage that has happened in the area it governs and care for the air, water, settled and wild lands in it's area governed and areas without claim must be taken care of by governments willing to accept the responsibility.

Answer 2

It will take more than individual states to really change anything.  A united global effort is necessary and will involve many people giving up driving, cutting back on heating and industries making huge changes.  To-day's science news reports that China's longest river and a main water supply, is polluted beyond repair.  What we need to do globally, is limit population for quite a few years to let the earth even out, and then continue to control an increase.  There just isn't enough good space for everybody the way we contiue to breed.    Best wishes

Answer 3

Not by themselves.

But by making laws to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, they will drive the Federal government into taking action, so industries don't have to deal with 50 sets of State laws.  Not likely in this Administration, but probably in the next.