How much does nature conservation have an effect your everyday lifestyle?

Question

We hear about global warming, greenhouse effect, planting of more trees, species going extinct within some degree of time - does it matter to you at all and what do you try to do to save the planet?

Answer 1

I am a professional earth scientist and an environmental consultant, so it matters to me a lot.  :-)

I try to educate people every day about what a scam Al Gore's baloney is.  I encourage people to study some science themselves, and not just blindingly accept what the news, entertainment, and educational media try to claim.  (I used to go around the state to give talks at schools, and it was amazing how many teachers were teaching things that were the opposite of what we were actually finding at the university lab.)

As a bottom line, though, I think the whole premise of "saving the planet" is misguided.  It's not about saving the planet--it's about saving us, or "saving the planet for us."  The planet was here before us and doesn't really have a care whether it is barren or whatever.  But the question is, how does the way we use the planet impact our lifestyle?  

We could all go back into caves and eat bushes, beans, and berries, but is that what we want?  Likewise, we could have a disgusting, pollution-filled place to surround us.  I don't like that idea, either...and that's the essence of conservation.  

We are conserving a useful thing rather than exploiting and destroying it.  So we aren't *saving* the planet, we are being good stewards of it.

Answer 2

Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot..

I am a member of a local land conservancy and we try to protect undeveloped land from development to save nature preserves and farmland..

Hopefully, it will have the dual effect of giving us all a better lifestyle and saving some of our environment a the same time..

How about you?

Answer 3

i changes everything i do and think about what i am doing to the earth and what i put in my mouth.  i been on this diet since april 2002 and could of started sooner closer to 9-11 but things happen.

watching the earth for the last yr now that i can afford it now.   it is pricy but worth it.  i use natural cleaner and it makes me proud to do it

never felt healthier and smarter to do it

Answer 4

What do u have against the plants??? the plants takes CO2 in and give us the O2 And holds on to the C to make there own food. That is the recycle of our and beginning to recycle fossil fuels.

Answer 5

Sure, it matters.  We conserve energy and water, walk or ride bikes when we can, eat organic vegetarian food, recycle and compost, plant trees and flowers, feed the birds, educate our children and others, and vote for leaders who share our values.