Do you think it's too late for anyone to save the planet when we cannot stop what other nations are doing?

Question

environmental concerns

either you think it's too late, it's never too late, why bother, do it anyways.

Too late is the key

Answer 1

Yes, I do.

But we must try because our efforts still might count for something, and we cannot really know if it's too late.

This story is an old one told in the recent book: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared Diamond reviews just a few of these historical cases. The one that comes to mind to me today is Easter Island, where two waring factions chose to do battle with each other to see who would get to have the biggest statues, a process that destroyed the island's fragile ecosystem and food rather than deal with the ecological disaster looming in front of them. Notably, what they were fighting for was religious hegemony.

This is just how humans seem to be made: we worry more about our enemies than the sinking ship we all are on. We prefer to war against countries with oil (and the energy waste of modern war is almost unfathomable) than figure out how to live in better balance with nature.

Answer 2

What's to save? It'll do just fine.

Answer 3

I have not Sean any data that I think is reliable enough to do anything. There is no global warming ,and the environmentalist is the cause of most of the problems I see.

Answer 4

Yes I do.  But it is not too late to try.  Vote for those that will work towards inspiring  the populaces of unstable governments to elect stable leaders.