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The Right Honorable Baroness of All Cosmos™ → ♊ (
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Green!
So.
A lot of focus has been placed on "green" methods and on environmental preservation and conservation.
Do you think these methods will help, or are we too late to remedy the damage already done?
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prairiecrow
2008-03-26 09:36 pm UTC
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That's a very good question.
I think that the Earth is a lot tougher than we give it credit for, and I doubt that anything we do will have a severe long-term impact on the planet. However, it looks like we might have really buggered things up as far as the survival of our own species (and several others) is concerned.
Personally, I recycle and try to conserve water, on the principle that every little bit helps and may postpone whatever final collapse is coming, even if it's only by a few days or hours. It also helps me feel more connected to and caring of the Earth, which is important in my spiritual practice. I think that remedying the damage we've already done is going to take decades, and possibly even centuries when you look at things like climate change (which may or may not be a result of human activity, but that's another issue).
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glitterbats
2008-03-26 10:27 pm UTC
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I like to be optimistic about our chances of repairing the damage in time to save our own species. Granted, the odds may be against us. I don't know, but I do know that for all our idiocy, one thing humanity's good at is beating the odds. We went from digging in the dirt to
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I also think that no matter what we do, the earth's been here long before we apes came onto the scene, and it'll be here long after we've faded into mere fairytales.
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earthlingmike
2008-03-27 09:47 pm UTC
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Damage has already been done. The environment can absorb extra CO2, for example forests will grow faster. But that just means it will be released a couple decades later, in a forest fire or just regular decay.
But we will continue having an impact on our environment.
Here's an article about a company that thinks they've found an answer to global warming in ocean plankton:
http://www.positivenews.org.uk/artman/p
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