How do we protect the rural and urban environment?

Question

How do we protect the rural and urban environment?

Answer 1

By reducing the world population to a controllable level.  This would free up a lot of areas around cities and reverse the urban sprawl.  Urban waste lands can be converted back into forests and rural areas can stay in tack.

More trees and other vegetation would eventually clean up the air and less people would mean less pollution (air, water, and land).  Also less people would mean less energy to sustain a modern economy and less food to feed people.  Abandon urban areas can be parceled for reforestation and over a period of 100 years, you can have a more beautiful and cleaner planet.  Regardless on what direction you go, you still have to conserve resources and not be wasteful.

We do not need a lot of cities or suburbs.  We do not need a lot of shopping malls or factories.  We just do not need a lot of people.

The world population should be reduced to 1900 levels or about 1.65 billion people.  However, this is very difficult because of religion and the fact that all people do not like the government telling them what to with their gonads.  But that is what it will take to protect the overall environment and sustain a modern economy.  The scientists have been saying this for about 50 years but nobody listened.

Answer 2

We have to keep the emiision of carbon Dioxide as low as possible. One way to keep carbon dioxide emissions from reaching the atmosphere is to preserve and plant more trees. Trees, especially young and fast-growing ones, soak up a great deal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store carbon atoms in new wood. Worldwide, forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, particularly in the tropics. In many areas, there is little regrowth as land loses fertility or is changed to other uses, such as farming or housing developments. In addition, when trees are burned to clear land, they release stored carbon back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. Slowing the rate of deforestation and planting new trees can help counteract the buildup of greenhouse gases.

Carbon dioxide gas can also be captured directly. Carbon dioxide has traditionally been injected into depleted oil wells to force more oil out of the ground or seafloor. The same process can be used to store carbon dioxide released by a power plant, factory, or any large stationary source. For example, since 1996 this process has been used at a natural gas drilling platform off the coast of Norway. Carbon dioxide brought to the surface with the natural gas is captured, compressed, and then injected into an aquifer deep below the seabed from which it cannot escape. In most cases, the process of carbon capture would also involve transporting the gas in compressed form to suitable locations for underground storage. Deep ocean waters could also absorb a great deal of carbon dioxide, although the environmental effects may be harmful to ocean life. The feasibility and environmental effects of these options are under study by international teams.

The total worldwide consumption of fossil fuels is increasing by several percent per year. However, energy use around the world is slowly shifting away from fuels that release a great deal of carbon dioxide toward fuels that release somewhat less of this heat-trapping gas.

Answer 3

Everything revolves around economics.

The rural environment benefits from recession as less people venture into the countryside for pleasure and the Nation becomes more dependent on home grown produce.

The urban environment suffers because councils have less cash to invest in their infrastructure.

Necessity is the driving force for destruction and wealth is the incentive for protection. To protect the environment requires a stable economy.

I remember the miners strikes and fathers chopping down trees to keep their children warm. Global warming wasn't a buzz word and anything that would burn went on the fire. 100's of years of environmental damage in a few weeks of madness.

Answer 4

Both environments are challenging to protect and must be protected using very different methods. The urban environment should be protected by careful planning of the city landscape. Whereas the rural environment, should be protected by a conservationist approach.