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Quote by: jamesbdunn  In the past 150 years humans are responsible for eradicating almost 50% of the know species of the world. Bacteria, insects, mamals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, are all lumped together. A wasp that only existed in a wetland area in Florida was eradicated because they wanted to build an apartment complex. How is that survival of the fit? I know you meant on a broader basis, but we kill off species flippantly.
Oil companies will end up being like the tabacco industry. Until sufficient pressure falls upon them, they won't seek alternative industries to invest their capital. Oil companies are NOT people running a business; the business has a life of its' own and runs the people. We need a broader mindset, each and all of us, to make better decisions globally.
Such is my desire to require Ethical Reasoning to be taught annually at all levels of education, globally. Ethical Reasoning is a system of mathematical and logical tools for predicting reasonable outcomes from proposed actions. Ethical Reasoning rarely uses the words right or wrong. People must be given the tools to think globally, most people can't see past their next pay check and certainly are unprepared to think globally.
Tree farms have produced more lumber than natural groves of trees could ever provide. Yet in just a few short generations of tree growth, the tree farms are failing. They are finding the lack of diversity makes the trees susceptable to insects and disease.
Basically, the WCS initiative allows a small percentage of educated individuals (hundreds of thousands) to attempt to do what is best for the Earth, despite the general populations' continued environmentally destructive tendencies. If you can't convince the majority to stop polluting and being destructive to the environment, what other choices are there? |
Here is a preview of the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit - Endangered Species
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Showtime
If I had the whole vid, I would have provided it. I've seen it, and it explains that the amount of species we've actually killed off are in the teens, not 50%. These guys have done their homework on this subject, so I suggest you watch it, because it's very informative.
I agree that tree farms are failing, however, we don't need tree farms. Trees wil reproduce themselves, faster than we can plant new ones. There is no tree extinction going on, in fact, it's the totally opposite. Facts?
Penn and Teller: Bullshit! Environmental Hysteria - Google Video
I suggest watching the whole video, but if you wanna hear about the trees, it's about 17 minutes into the video.
I say, lets continue trying to find better energy sources such as ethonal or using hydrogen or electric based systems to our vehicles to start, and we'll lose our dependancy on oil, and it'd be better for the environment. We don't need a handful of people telling us what's best. We have enough people in the government right now telling us what we can and can't do.