Guys... listen to Pam. She hit on what is exactly happening to this earth as we speak.
Climate change is natural....POLLUTION isn't. All this "well we ought to just go the way we been goin because climate change is a crock so just keep pumpin all that poison into the air,earth,water" mentality makes me sick.
Air,earth, and water pollution causes WORSE things than climate change....things like CANCER....BIRTH DEFECTS....places on this earth where NOTHING will grow and what DOES grow is tainted by the pollutants in the ground.......so spare me your blind eye, use it up till it's gone and move on mentality.
This farce video states precisely the way polluting industries will USE the program to do exactly that........do ONE good thing so they can have a blind eye for forty bad ones. It's a retarded program aimed at giving the APPEARANCE of doing something to rein in pollution to the stupid masses who don't know any better.....smoke and mirrors...just like most things.
Old Cree sayin........
Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will you realize that you cannot eat money.
I've been to part of the rain forest back in '92 and have seen the devastation. My Son was there last summer and said it was 100% worse than when I was there. My daughter has an album by michael jackson called "History: Past, Present and Future, Book I " and on it is a song called "Earth Song" that he wrote back in '95. I always thought that was a neat song but didn't think too much about what it meant. I guess you could say that I'm not a tree-hugger.... but seeing his video of "earth Song" really opened my eyes and made me think.
Pam's right, we are killing this earth... Pollution can be hazardous to your health... and it can kill. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 3 million people die each year of air pollution. Bad air accounts for 5% of the annual deaths worldwide. As Larry and Anmar pointed out on another thread, CA has done wonderful job in cleaning the AIR. I bet Larry can really give you some horror stories on smog and how it was in the 70's and 80's.
The U.S. has more than 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams, approximately 40.8 million acres of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, over 34,000 square miles of estuaries, over 58,000 miles of ocean shoreline, and over 5,500 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. The state of the nation's waterways has improved since the 1960s when dead fish were washing ashore and lakes were catching on fire. But there is still room for improvement.
Cholera and schistosomiasis. They are diseases that infect hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of people around the world due to lack of clean drinking water and sanitary systems. These diseases are unheard of in the United States. We have one of the cleanest drinking water supplies and some of the best waste- water treatment facilities in the world.... but we can do better. The WHO also states, as of 2000, more than 1 billion people still lacked clean drinking water and over 2.4 billion lacked proper sanitation. North America treated 90% of its wastewater. Europe: 66%; Asia: 35%; Latin America and the Caribbean: 14%; and Africa: 0%. I know that these WHO figures are 9 yrs. old but I wonder if things are better off in the world now compared to 2000. Somehow, I don't seem to think so.
Pam's right.... climate change is natural....POLLUTION isn't!
And then there is Wars, famines, hunger, drug resistant germs and many other things that Mother Earth and its populace is suffering from.
"Earth Song": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZcAzZOyOg
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