My question is does "going GREEN" really make an impact on the environmental problems? Does one person really make a difference? Why are some things we do better than others?
To be honest I think all we're doing is changing from one earth killing method to another. Either way we're slowly killing everything around us so we can live the luxurious lives we've become accustomed to. Some examples are things such as using as little paper as possible. That seems like an awesome idea right? Save some trees and the world and rainforests will be saved. Well if we don’t use paper then what will we use? Electronic? Don’t electronics use electricity? But where does the electricity come from? Is it collected through solar power or wind power? Don’t both of those options require metal, buildings to collect and store the energy plus additional maintenance that requires more natural materials?
These are all question that people should ask but never do. It seems like people just see the positive side effects instead of the negative. The scientists just see that not using paper and other woods will keep the rainforest from depleting which is true and awesome but they still aren’t very good solutions. There must be better ones out there that just haven’t been tried before.
I believe there is so much more that can be done and just isn’t. Lets so back to the primitive styles of living and see how they’re sustainable. Maybe that’s the key to prolonging the earth and all that it has to offer. Another could be to help people recycle by allowing them to recycle for free and really educating people about the “going GREEN”. To many people just can’t afford it.
To be honest I think all we're doing is changing from one earth killing method to another. Either way we're slowly killing everything around us so we can live the luxurious lives we've become accustomed to. Some examples are things such as using as little paper as possible. That seems like an awesome idea right? Save some trees and the world and rainforests will be saved. Well if we don’t use paper then what will we use? Electronic? Don’t electronics use electricity? But where does the electricity come from? Is it collected through solar power or wind power? Don’t both of those options require metal, buildings to collect and store the energy plus additional maintenance that requires more natural materials?
These are all question that people should ask but never do. It seems like people just see the positive side effects instead of the negative. The scientists just see that not using paper and other woods will keep the rainforest from depleting which is true and awesome but they still aren’t very good solutions. There must be better ones out there that just haven’t been tried before.
I believe there is so much more that can be done and just isn’t. Lets so back to the primitive styles of living and see how they’re sustainable. Maybe that’s the key to prolonging the earth and all that it has to offer. Another could be to help people recycle by allowing them to recycle for free and really educating people about the “going GREEN”. To many people just can’t afford it.
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Thats a good way to look at things and you have a good point, but would you relly want to live in that primitive life style and have to relearn every thing you no. When it comes down to it people complaine and have great ideas but they never do anything to make that big change.
ReplyDeleteI agree, if we were to weigh out the pros and cons of each "new energy" source then maybe we wouldn't be in the situation we are in now?
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of what you wrote, but I think that even if people were to revert, at least to some degree, back to more primitive lifestyles, there would still be much of the same problems that we deal with today.
ReplyDeleteFirst, we'd have to find ways to dispose of much of what we currently own and use. We already have an over-abundance of landfills and techniques like insinerating our junk could just end up causing more harmful pollutants.
Plus, there's always a chance of things like forest fires and unmanaged hunting and logging if people started living more "sustainably".
I'm not saying it would be any worse than today's lifestyles, but it would definitely take an enormous amount of time and effort to reach a point of minimal environmental impact.