Environmental conservation, Thoughts Please.?

Question

Somehow, I did'nt really list environmental issues as a top priority in my life. I have had a growing concern recently. Would anyone be so kind as to share the issues they think need to be addressed. Perhaps not pertaining to the presidentialelection, just the main issues you personally feel need to be addressed and for what reasons. Thankyou, look forward to your remarks.

Answer 1

Sadly, the list of environmental issues is nearly endless, but they fall into a few main categories, most of them interconnected to one degree or another:

Climate Change

Habitat Destruction and Biodiversity Loss

Overharvesting

Air and Water Pollution

I would suggest you think about what issues matter most to you and work from there. For example, habitat destruction is really important to me, but I do not think our traditional conservation methods of setting aside a few parks and preserves and taking over everything else for ourselves is effective. I'm a proponent of rewilding (a la Rewilding Institute, not the green anarchy movement or, heaven forbid, Pleistocene rewilding) and so-called "conservation corridors." I support organic gardening with native plants because this creates little "safe" areas for wildlife. If everybody in a suburban neighborhood were to plant a few extra trees and shrubs in their yards, our local wildlife would be in much better shape. I also support organic agriculture and grass-based livestock farming, because they support much higher levels of biodiversity that could eventually even support large carnivores (many of which are keystone species) like wolves and bears in a greater percent of their traditional range. More forests and pastures helps control CO2 emissions to combat global warming, as well as helping improve water and air quality.

Similar principles work on an international scale. Habitat conservation and restoration affects far more than simply wildlife, so that's why I believe it to be the most important single issue. YMMV.

Answer 2

There are several urgent issues. But they must be dealt with the economics in mind. To see profitable ways to reccycle and save the environment check this link:

Answer 3

We need the world to change its attitude to hemp. It grows fast, fixes lots of carbon, produces the best natural fibre in the world (far better than cotton), is naturally pest resistant, produces natural plastics and resins, can be used to make eco friendly building material stronger than concrete, is cheap to grow, is a rich source of valuable food, will grow just about anywhere in the world, is hugely medicinal, produces more useable cellulose than any other plant, can be used as fuel domestic industrial and car (Diesels first engine was designed to run on hemp oil), it makes great paper that doesn't need bleach like wood pulp so much less pollution. The list is endless. Whilst absorbing carbon it can be used to end third world poverty and debt, reforest man made deserts as a pioneer plant.

But it threatens the american paper industry, oil industry, medicinal drug industry and world bank - that's why the yanks make up all the scare stories and the rest of the world follows suit. Read read "Hemp - Lifeline to the Future" by Chris Conrad and get your prof to read it and all your friends. You will be amazed.