Do you agree with this, and why???

Question

-The future of the planet looks bleak, but there is nothing I can do about it.- I have an essay to write, so i was curious about other peoples ideas, suggestions.... of course 10 pts for the best. thank you!!!

Answer 1

It really dose look bleak for us. I worry for what the children of the future will have to live with.But there are things you can do that will help the future. Turning off lights and taking shorter showers, also turning off your water heater when you are not using it. Use clothes lines instead of running your dryer. If everyone did these little things we could save on so much energy, wich inturn is better for the enviroment.

But the truth is that everyone will not do these things, so I feel the future of our planet will be based on the people that didnt.

I am sorry but its gonna be a bad ending for all of us.

Answer 2

of course its a bleak out look we are killing of species every day on this planet,belching out pollutants by the tonne into the atmosphere,sure the earth has been around for billions of years but look at the damage we have done in the few short years man has been around.Once we make in nearly uninhabitable and kill ourselves off or close to it then the earth will start to heal its-self.

Answer 3

The beauty is in the beholder. The Jews in the prison camps is bleak . Your problem is u are listening to the wrong people. I am 77 and life is beautiful and I know as I died about 6 months ago. I was in a great hospital and the good doctor brought me back. As I get older I think about death ,and I want to be like the grasshopper just flying along and looking how beautiful this world is. THEN as I hit the windshield it is over. I don't want any warnings.

Answer 4

The future is anything but Bleak. We are in the most prosperous time in history and that prosperity is growing rapidly throughout the world.

In reality, the USA is by far... Many times cleaner than lets say a 3rd world country. Have you ever seen the pictures of the slums in those countries? The garbage heaps and the rat infested households if that's what can be defined as a house.

The world has been through many different times of cold and warm periods and it will be ok way ahead in the future after we have been long gone.

Nuclear power is the best solution for our electrical needs in both the short and long terms.

Answer 5

I don't think the future of the planet looks bleak.  There have been a great many changes in the US alone to improve the state of events.  The Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act all took place in the 70s.  Corporate Responsibility has been continually increasing.  Technology such as Digital Cameras have in large part replaced traditional film-based photography which has significantly reduced silver waste.  There is much more that needs to be done both in the US and globally, but don't believe the psuedo-science that is politically motivated.  I remember watching several documentaries on Global Warming such as 'Global Warming: What you need to know' and of particular interest was sea level rise and glacial melt.  So-called scientists claimed that the Greenland Ice Sheet represented 20feet of sea rise while the North American Ice Sheet represented 25feet of sea rise.  They claimed that each of the Ice Sheets had shrunk by 20% since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.  Using their numbers, we should already see a sea level rise of 9feet without even accounting for thermal expansion.  A quick check on the internet for Pacific Atolls which have been submerged  since Captain Cook charted the Pacific couldn't find any such occurrance.  The most recent documentary that I saw was 'Six Degrees' on the National Geographic Channel.  Their claim was that the average person eats three hamburgers a week and if you trace the beef from growing the cow to serving the burger it produced more CO2 than all the SUVs in the US combined.  If that's real, then we know there is a lot more that each of us can do to reduce the pollution that is being created.  Starting out by taking actions in our personal lives now and then holding others accountable would be next.  How many of the people who talk about Global Warming are actually doing something about it in their personal lives.  Does Al Gore really need to live in that huge mansion?  If you need an essay topic to write about, how about real people doing real things for the environment.  Not people that you read about but people you actually know.

Answer 6

I can only say that one must read and research to try to find answers. I shudder to think about all the nuclear waste  around  that will be still be viable for, what millions of years. Not nice for our children. When I was growing up we did not worry about global warming, snow was about 5 to 6 feet deep. The biggest problem is our leaders, i.e. government are to slow to respond to problems. It's on us

Answer 7

It's the future of the human race, not the future of the planet that looks bleak...

Answer 8

All you can do is do what you can do. Small ripples make big waves.

Answer 9

Our planet has been doing fine for billions of years. It is well able to repair itself.  We need to be more concerned about what we are doing to ourselves.  The things we are doing, that you think are destroying our planet, are in actuality destroying us.  Please give this a great deal of thought