Which is more important : you saving money $ or taking care of our planet and saving threaten speices.?

Question

Which is more important : you saving money $ or taking care of our planet and saving threaten speices.?

Answer 1

Saving money. I don't believe the planet is in any man-made peril and I have family to support. If the Al Gores and Bill Gates of the world want to spend their own money to pretend to stop global warming, good for them. Just keep their tax policies out of my pocket.

Answer 2

s***w the money$, save the creatures.

Answer 3

Taking care of our planet and saving threatened species.

Not caring for the environment is what causes human diseases and all other kinds of problems.

Preserving threatened species is good because when the un-born generations come into this world, they have the right to see animals just like we do.  It would suck to be born into this world and most animals are extinct and the rest are sold as pictures and watched on TV because the previous generations didn't care are said it's not their problem.

Answer 4

I think taking care of the planet is more important, but I've found most of the actions I've taken save me money.

I don't donate money to organizations, I think personal effort is more important. There are too many organizations that spend more money on payroll than actual action. I belong to a few organizations that keep me informed on what politicians are doing so I can write or email them to let them know how I feel about topics.

The fact is energy costs money, so the less you use the less you pay. Transportation and packaging often costs more than the item we want to use, so by sourcing most of my food locally I again save money, I save even more when I grow it my self. Large conventional farms use lots of equipment and chemicals, so buying organic food and clothing, I don't always save money, but I am helping our environment. I buy what I need and only replace items when needed, this conserves natural resources and has allowed me to become credit card debt free. Recycling paper and buying used furniture as well as not buying imported produce helps save forests. Most of the rain forest destruction is to make room for farming, much of what is grown is shipped to the US. I switched to nontoxic cleaners, I no longer use spray cans for anything, I'm no longer putting chlorine bleach, phosphates or a whole list of other chemicals into the sewer which ultimately ends up in the ocean. My primary cleaners are baking soda, natural soap and vinegar, can't get much cheaper than that.

So, I'm saving money, by helping the planet.

Answer 5

I guess it depends.  Am I in a stage of my life where I'm having money problems, and struggling to pay the mortgage, buy gas for the car, keep the electric on, AND put food on the table?  People who are in that kind of financial struggle are only going to care about saving money.  They might like whales, pandas, tigers, and spotted owls, but they are sure not going to welcome any sort of tax, or anything that curbs the hours, or days they can go to work.  Like when spotted owls start to nest, and logging, and development must come to a complete halt for months.

If the bills are paid, food is on the table, the tank is full on the car, and there's a bit extra in ones paycheck aside from the "gotta pay to survive bills," then I think more people are going to care about saving threatend species.  

I've noticed something else, the older I've gotten....so much depends on what the persons parents taught them.  Growing up, I thought everyone loved animals as much as I did.  Now I know better.  Within our own family, on my husbands side, I see nieces (and soon a nephew) who are being taught that animals are "icky, and dirty."  They have no love, nor respect of nature.  There's zero that motivates them to want to intereact with nature, or to preserve it.  This view is not going to change as they grow up.

Perhaps the most important thing would be to teach our children to love, respect, and understand nature, and animals.  Then as adults, perhaps money would be tight for them, but they might forgo the cable TV, in order to contribute to a nature program.  Or perhaps they will only be able to give of their time, doing something like building nest boxes, and wading about a swamp putting them up, because they feel it is important.  Or perhaps they will be spending the entire night, with headlamps (flashlights) on their heads, digging up rare, native orchids, before the bulldozers come the next day to start the new housing division.

Teaching the children, is actually the most important thing.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 6

I really don't believe I am the cause of threatened animal species, so my saving money would not necessarily be saving them at all?...

Answer 7

cool question.

you might also ask what political party respondents are associated with?  

maybe which state they live in?  

what kind of car they drive?  

what they think of the war in Iraq?  

i could go further, and ask what are their specific religious beliefs, but maybe better not.

to be fair, both, but AGW is a real problem.

dem, calif, old, don't like it.  (no, better not:)