SixFive said:
Please give me some specifics where the environment is suffering or dying. Not generalizations, but specifics.
A local cbs news affiliate out of Seattle ran a one hour special last week,
"Troubled Waters in the Puget Sound" . Being essentailly a closed marine system, all the toxins and chemicals being dumped in the Puget Sound have increased algae growth, depleting oxygen and causing massive marine life kills in the lower Puget Sound. Very disturbing. The point being made that most of this is due population increase which is harder to control than point sources from Industry.
I saw a good documentary on Canadian TV by UBC professor Dr. Suzuki last year called
Sacred Balance. In it was shown a time-lapse sequence taken from the vantage point of space over the last ten thousand years. Each millennium passes in one minute. For the first 7 minutes the movie looks like more like a still photo as nothing changes. Gradually, as time progresses, forests and greenery begin to disappear in parts of Europe, Central America, China and India. 12 seconds from the end, representing 2 centuries ago, the thinning spreads more intensely. With 6 seconds to go, eastern north America is deforested. As the remaining 3 seconds tick off it looks as if a plague of locusts has descended on the planet.
Dr. Suzuki also made the point that population increase is one of th main culprits.
To say that environmental degradation is non-existent seems delusional. (Not meant as an Ad-hominem).
