If we conserve now, do you think we can still save the environment?

Question

we always see that the land is always polluted and landfills are getting bigger. also, the population is booming and more spaces for housing projects are needed. as a result, more forests are being cut down and more resources are being used. even if we conserve, its too late because many resources have been used and polluted. i don't want to give up but i feel its too late to conserve every single resources. please, help me out.

Answer 1

If we get going on it, we may succeed. If we never take that first step, no journey is possible.

Do people want an iron clad guarantee of success before they will do the best they can? That is a solid recipe for failure.

Answer 2

I think we can. If everyone helps, we can stop the bad path we are taking. I do small things everyweek end like pick up trash on the roads. Not only does it look nicer, but it cleans up the enviornment. We NEED to conserve, reguardless, because in 20 years, this world may be one large mess and it would be because we, and people before us, didnt care about what they had!

RECYCLE!

Answer 3

no way,, It`s way too late

Answer 4

No, soon you will be living without an environment.

Answer 5

There are more trees now that there were 100 years ago http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bo...

There is less pollution now than in the 60s when the US began to implement legislation to control it http://www.reason.org/commentaries/schwa...

The same article argues that building more freeways will result in less pollution since traffic would flow smoother and a more optimal speed. That equals less pollution but some groups lobby against new roads.

Despite claims that thousands of species have become extinct due to humans, every time they try to prove this they discover species they thought were extinct actually were not. There is probably some but most plants and animals on Earth are hardier than they're given credit for.

The craze now is to switch to compact fluorescent lights but they contain mercury so when they eventually go to a landfill and that leaches into the soil and groundwater - that might make the trash and pollution problems seem like a walk in the park. Still, mustn't argue because they know best, right?

You could take all the billions of people on Earth and put them in the state of Texas and the population density would be no greater than it is in Tokyo today. Population Bomb? I don't think so.

Do I conserve? Yes. Do I pollute? No more than I have to. Do I recycle? Only newspaper because no one else actually will recycle it, it isn't cost-effective. The solution isn't to make it mandatory and have an armed squad watch me sort my trash, it's to add market incentives or just let science find a way to make it worth doing for profit.

Answer 6

its never to late every little bit that we conserve today,every little bit we recycle today,every little bit of land that is rehabilitated can only be a good thing.We have landfill sites up here in northern Ontario that 10 years ago were to be shut down because  they would be full now because of the blue box program and people recycling they are saying these landfill sites may have 25 years or more before closing.So that is one small step up here imagine what if in the larger centres.No matter how small of a step it is it HAS to be good

Answer 7

Nope, because at this point the biggest thing we need to do is limit breeding and that won't happen. Anti-abortion activists are too worried about the murder of a single child to see that we are choking the planet off with the billions of people crowding it already.

But life will go on, the roaches will take over and thrive in the wasteland we leave behind.

Answer 8

if every one works in unity nothing is impossible

Answer 9

Earth has been in imminent danger for nearly a hundred years now. Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and the like have been preaching the destruction of the Earth since the early 20th century. In fact, I believe we just avoided a new ice age prophesized in the 60's (Or Sometime in the mid to late 20th century). I'm sure that now is little different than then.

Answer 10

put your wig on and call me viki

stock up on water,books,seeds-

horses not housing

pay attention its free

Answer 11

I believe definitely yes, we can still save what hasn't yet been lost. In order to stop the destruction and climate change it will take the vast majority to cooperate and clean up our act.

It is important that the vast majority of individuals in the world make the choice to move toward a sustainable lifestyle otherwise the destruction will continue at a pace driven the remainder of the people that continue a non-sustainable lifestyle.

Scientists are still trying to determine where we will be based on current behavior. The outlook in most cases isn't good, but the results are not certain. A way to make that more certain is to simply stop the behavior that is causing the problem. While this might not be 100% achievable, it is a goal where partial success will still have an impact on the outcome.

Personally, I've changed out my light bulbs for CFL's, I've added low-flow showerheads, I have a new house with a high efficiency heat pump, I drive a Prius, and try to do my part to recycle. I have plans to do much more.... If everyone made choices to move away from a non-sustainable lifestyle the whole world benefits. (And it makes me feel good that I am doing my part).

Timothy D.

West Melbourne, FL

Answer 12

yeah, we really made a mess of our world. but it is never too late to stop making it worse. some things we cannot fix, but we should care enough to do what we can since it is our fault the place is in such a mess. what in the ...were we thinking trying to mess with atoms?

Answer 13

I'm sure something else will kill us all before environment problems do, so i wouldn't worry.