Why are some governments and commercial entities h**l-bent on killing our planet for money?

Question

Despite knowledge of the obvious effects of mass deforestation, damming rivers, development of mangroves and coral reefs and the use of unpredictable energy sources like oil shale, these people still continue to go on. I do not get it.

Answer 1

You are a portion of a populace with the power to change the political power base.  One day, you may be called into service to protect your planet.  You will hear your name called on that day, as will I and many others.  God provided a planet for us to live in not for special interests groups to destroy and enslave us in the process.  The ways to produce the clean and renewable power we need are already here.  Yet they keep it away from us and enlist a special President called George Bush to begin a n**i like campaign against our freedoms and to invade and conquer other countries just as imperialists do.

Answer 2

because people like us are hellbent on buying what they sell...

Answer 3

Humans as a whole are greedy and selfish.  Humans have the ability, above all other species, to make long range plans, and perdict outcomes.  

Instead of using this AMAZING ability for long range planning for the good of our future generations, and the planet, most humans use it for self satisfaction, and gratification of immediate needs, wants, and desires.

One of the driving desires of humans of course is to make money and be successful at their job.  So humans strip the planet of things (like oil) to fill their desires for the "right now."

Humans choose to "see" what they want to "see."  So instead of worring about things, like the fact that oil is probably going to very nearly run out in the lifetime of most people reading this, humans instead focus on the immediate gains, and profits to be made, and a dim hope somewhere in the back of their mind that some scientist is going to come along and invent something that will save our butts in the nick of time.

Focus only on the "good" things, and let someone else worry about cleaning up the mess.  Besides if Governments, and commercial entities were not driven to be that way by the average person, they wouldn't be.  I'm afraid the problem cannot just be blamed on "the big guys."  You have to look at the average joe, who is also asking for his/her slice of the cake.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 4

Many people do care - but also they want certain needs met (like food and shelter and Ferrari cars) - they do things in the present that accomplish those goals.... that is what it means to be human - the future is hard to see anyway...

Answer 5

It is sooooo frustrating, I know! These type of people are only interested in now, right now, and making their money any way they can, at whatever cost. They figure as long as the planet and it's "resources" lasts as long as they do, why worry about the future consequences? Money truly is the root of all evil, it appears.

Answer 6

To make money, coupled with the Power our dependence creates.  A vicious cycle.

For example...

Answer 7

Because green means everything.

Just not the right kind of green

Also, they are finding many ways to wake money off us tax-payers for the environment, if they stop killing the planet, they wont get this money, plus they lose out on the original stuff they were already making money on.

I guess im not really giving you a reason why.

The only answer to that is greed

Answer 8

d**n`s are cool, lake are more cool

Answer 9

Greed

Answer 10

Humans acting human, it is in our history and we can not change it till, it is right here. We had the Dark Ages. We may get them back:

I attended the Focus the Nation at Sierra College on 1-31-08. The event was the 2% Solution, a 2% reduction over 40 years to solve GW. Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon - $30 Gal for gas. The 2% Solution is ok for the USA for a 10 year plan to cut 20%. But over those 10 years, we have to be building renewable energy and about that time, we can cut an additional 20%. This should get us from importing any oil. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, GW and cleanup) for oil, NG, coal, cigarettes, Cooling Towers, Cars, trains and airplanes. Humans have to put some of this nonrenewable into renewable energy like small hydro-electric dams, concentrating solar power plants, wind and wave machines, nuks, and geothermal. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak NG in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy your food to send to starving people since our grain is not available. Now what USA Presidential candidate is give you the facts so you can make an educated decision?

Over the next 90 years carbon dioxide is projected to skyrocket as human’s burn more fossil fuels. The problem is, the oil will be gone in less than 30 years at present rates of consumption without projected increases and shortages. We have to come up with what will take its place. Again we have to cleanup our mess. One of the big problems we have is at some time Yellowstone will blow its top again, as the magma move closer to the surface, creating a nuk winter. After that we will not have to worry about the destruction of the ozone layer, global warming or pollution.

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

Remember knowledge is power and this information is very powerful. Humans have 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that runs on cheep oil, natural gas, or coal. We need 20 Trillion Dollars worth of renewable energy over the next 10 years if we are to avoid a world wide depression (and right now ethanol does not count)!

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 11

They have no ethics.

This is one of the horrible flaws of capitalism.  Its a system that lets an individual or small group profit from destroying things that are then gone for everyone.

Answer 12

You answered your own question.

Answer 13

Greed, arrogance, ignorance, sloth and hubris always take priority over saving the planet - until, someday soon, there won't be a planet to save. Mankind will have destroyed it all, and we will all sit idly by and wonder how - and why.  -RKO-  02/09/08

Answer 14

Many of us Greedy for Money and killing our Planet.

Do you many persons having morethan 2 House, also having 5 to 10 cars. Some are not bothering about our Planet. For money they ready to kill Mangroves/Mountains/Blocking Rivers/Cutting Tress also.

They do not know If Earthquake comes everybody wold face problem.

If there is EARTH, no body can survive.

Every body should found out such Planet Killer and have to take sivere action againt them.

I am saw many Houses/shopping Complex is locked and no body is using and it is standing as Mass in many cities.

One House/One Car for each family is best policy.

Otherwise it is ready to face Earthquake problems

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Answer 15

Once you pop, you just can't stop.

I doubt I'll even live to see the day that that isn't happening.

Answer 16

You already answered your question -- it's for the money. Sad...