Are you really concerned with saving the Earth for future generations?

Question

Once I heard something like this: Shouldn't we also be concerned to save this generation for the future of Earth?

Stazz76 · Accepted Answer

The earth will carry on and doesn’t need ‘saving’.

There have been several mass-extinction events in the past, and this has led to new life forms becoming dominant, including our species, so no, the earth doesn’t need saving per se – it will just be a very different earth to the one that we know and love.

The trouble is that humans are populating the earth in plague proportions, human activities are consuming planetary resources and polluting the planet in an unsustainable way, and these are adversely affecting our ecosystem in many ways that directly jeopardize the ecology which we (and many other species) depend on for survival, so many scientists are predicting that we are at the dawn of another mass extinction event.

When food becomes scarce and large populations are displaced from their homes, you get competition for resources like never before seen. Wars will be inevitable, and economies will collapse, so the dollar won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. The weather won’t just be ‘warmer’ - it will be excessively unpredictable, and make it harder for plants and animals to survive, and could even send Europe into a new ice age when ice melt from Greenland stifles the warm ocean current that heats the wind that prevails over Europe.

So, the future ain’t looking too pretty for our species.

Many of us know what changes are required, but our policy makers seem to be owned by the big end of town, esp. the fossil fuel lobby, so they are not taxing carbon emissions, not penalizing pollution, and even making it artificially cheap for everyone to keep using them with government subsidies.

We would have had electric cars running on Nickel Cadmium batteries 30 years ago, except the patent was sold to General Motors who resold it to Texaco who refused to license the technology for use in vehicles because it was contrary to their business model.

So much of our prime agricultural land has been contaminated by insecticides that the insect population worldwide is being decimated. Without bees to pollinate our fruit, we won’t have half the fruit that we once enjoyed. Insects are the foundation of our ecology and to think destroying them won’t have consequences is madness.

I hope that our species can make positive changes for sustainability very soon, because change will be forced upon us soon whether we like it or not.

The planet will be fine without us – it just won’t be the kind of planet that allowed our species to thrive.

P. S. Any believers who believe in the Revelation, that God will bring to ruin those who are ruining the earth – this now seems inevitable from a secular perspective, but please don’t think that some deity will save one religion over another. Our whole species is the cause of the problems, and all life on this planet will have to deal with the fallout.

talloak · Accepted Answer

I've struggled with this longer than most people can imagine. I've been warning students about the extreme danger of global warming for well over 30 years. Then as now, most people don't especially care. The tragedy of it then was that all of it could easily have been avoided by modest sacrifices that people were not willing to make. Now, it would take massive sacrifices that very few will do voluntarily but will soon be compelled to do anyway.

I admit that I don't understand this reaction. I thought that what makes us human is our ability to see a world beyond ourselves both in time and space. It seems we are less human than we thought. Quite the opposite, in many ways. Trump goes out of his way to accelerate our mutual destruction and his supporters love him for it. They laugh knowing that destroying the planet really upsets liberals. And it does, because liberals are not so stupid as to think this is funny. But how could they, even they, miss the obvious? Do they know of another planet they can move to when this one can no longer sustain them? Do they think they can get by without food and water when those because luxuries beyond the reach of many or most? Money is worthless in times like those. They are like riders in a lifeboat who punch holes in the bottom to vex their enemy on the other side of the boat.

I also see too many who simply give up. They figure that people are not going to change so the world is doomed no matter what. It's not actually clear if disaster is avoidable yet or not. We've never experimented on our habitat like this before so there is much we don't know. But even if it is too late to reverse global warming, we can almost certainly slow it. Isn't it worth fighting for if doing so will spare billions of people decades of misery and death?

I'm old enough that I will probably be dead before the truly worst gets underway. And yet, I can't seem to stop caring about it. I can't manage to limit my perspective to my own life. But I do wish that the people who will be affected by it first, that is, young people, cared more. At the very least they could vote for leaders who do care about their future enough to do something to help guard it.

SpacedCharr · Accepted Answer

I'm interested in seeing the Earth continue past the decline of the human race.

I don't know if humans will survive forever, nor do I hope for such a thing. If we survive, we survive. If we die, we die. My individual opinion in this matter hardly, well, matters.

But I think it's only natural to want to take care of your house - then again, that's how I was raised.

There's systemic changes necessary to create policies and a general societal culture that will keep this planet going as long as possible.

What's the saying? "Leave this place better than you found it." That applies to a room full of people as much as it applies to this planet.

A fool thinks only of themselves. A wise person thinks of those who come after them.

19magic · Accepted Answer

I will do my part buts lot of times things I would like cost too much to be able to do eg solar panels and a hybrid car there is a balance you've gotta maintain. On the other hand though I do believe there'll be too much pollutants and the earth will wipe mankind off of the planet or force us to cope whether that'll be rising sea levels and there'll be a wet age again, then later on another ice age

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

This is why I believe the press should focus more on what's-his-name, that invented a device to clean up plastic waste in the ocean, and focus on getting more of his invention implemented.

Instead, we have gasbags trying to gaslight us with this insane horsecrap that every invention ever was really secretly invented by blacks, and then "stolen" by everyone else. Except... how are blacks so inept at security, as to always be stolen from? The premise defeats itself; yet I have had to deal with loony chicks on Facebook trying to preach it to me anyway. Why? Because they insist Thanksgiving was about genocide, even though the descendants of the Indians that were there are also crying "horseshit!" But these black supremacist chicks apparently know the Indians' history better than the Indians themselves do? Because blacks don't lie about their history or anyone else's, but everyone else does? It's insane.

And when not bombarding us with that, the press hit us over the head with Greta, calling for white genocide in America specifically. "Stop having babies!" Never mind that Russia, America, and Canada are the three nations with the cleanest air in the world, and America is only beneath Canada in cleanliness due to Chicago and LA.

Never mind that all those third world hellholes we're told to fetishize... have far dirtier air, and insanely high birth rates! But they're not *white* babies, so... that makes it okay?

These frauds are so painfully easy to see through.

TheLawAroundHere · Answer

No, not really. Its reasonable to think that RIGHT NOW, a peraon has been born that will die due to catastrophic failure of the planet. Greenhouse gases are close to 400% of the maximum liveable levels. Its too late to "save" anything. Now im not saying we should just pave over every last patch of grassland and dump everyrhing into the water.

We ruined this rock. There is an upside... kinda. Humanity is nearing its end. Because of over population, wreckless disposal practices, and irresponsible living arrangements, mankind is done for. But all is not lost. Picture the planet as a dog. Now picture humanity as a bunch of fleas. Earth will be irritated until the fleas starve to death or die from fighting. Once rhe flea population gets low enough, the dog will shake and shake until all the fleas are gone.

After all the fleas (people) are gone, the dog (earth) will finally be able to heal. Give the old rock 10 or 20 million years, and you won't even be able to tell we almost made it explode.

Then, another piece of primordial ooze will crawl out of the ocean. And some other kind of monkey will learn to walk upright. Maybe they won't fuck it up.

abc3643 · Answer

Yes and no.
I won't be around so, for me, it's moot.
However, I've been an environmentalist for almost 50 years! I remember the first Earth Day and when the USA was filled with litter. I remember the Energy Crisis, the gas lines, and various other environmental issues like Love Canal, Agent Orange, Three Mile Island, CFCs affecting the ozone layer, etc. So, I live the motto "Think global. Act local." and recycle and cut down on plastic use and drive less, and drive to maximize gas mileage, etc.

Kaneki05 · Answer

In the end there is nothing humans can do for the future. Nor can humans go into the past and even so humans would still fuck things up.
So at this point there is nothing to do but live are lifes and having kids is just pointless because all your doing is bringing a child to this world just to see the world end. And even if the world don't end in there lifes what about there kids. And the possibitles of getting passed 2100 without world wide deaths due to a lot of bad shit is low af.

flooding of a lot of worldwide countrys has already been predicted before 2100 and what can we do pretend we can fix it the only thing we can do is maybe push it back to 2200 max but what's the point in that.

The1Guy · Answer

Save future generations from theirselves. Have you heard this one? Man's greatest enemy is themselves.

What's actually changing in human relationships? Every problem in this world is caused by unhealthy relationships between us.

And every generetion is less able to form meaningful connections between themselves and members of previus generations.

So yes, I am very passionate about saving the earth. And I don't think we'll fare any better on a different planet if we don't start putting in the work required to build meaningful intergenerational relationships as well as within each generation.

Evil_Laughter · Answer

I am concerned, yes. I didn't know how bad things were growing up where I did, but knowing more now I want to try and help. It is fairly hard to figure out what's actually going on sometimes though, and where you should help, when there are so many conflicting arguments and data gathered by so many disagreeing people... It would be nice if the media and/ or the government stepped out long enough for the people who know what they're doing and aren't biased to explain some stuff. There's just so many truths now it's hard to trust any of them. I sort of went down a rabbit trail there; I apologize.

Gedaria · Answer

When the second world ear had ended, this same question was asked. The changes that have happened , have been for the good. Iike one thing taking lead out of fuel. At the time it was heralded as a great move forward, but now they grumble about the CO2. coming out of vehicles exhaust, it's non toxic good for the plants. Now it's evil, I wonder what things would be like it they had continued with the CO. that use to come out exhausts, which is a killer,(carbon monoxide poisoning). You cannot we what ever you do. And this generation will still do things wrong that the next generation will be critical of...

pizzalovershouse · Answer

yes but the problem is we think it won't happen for 100s of years why worry when we're seeing tempatures rise an not enough of us willing to send are leaders positions to change the climate we will see a rise of hotter tempatures an more droughts to bigger natural disasters an them less food it just means making changes in fuel we use to energy the clean energy teck is coming down faster now in price we could change it now an stop the warming of we, all demand it from our leaders but we think let some1else change it they will take care of it it's time for us all to step up an demand it now

Dargil · Answer

I think it is important that we clean up after ourselves and not leave out grand kids a mess.
As with the civil rights (now social justice) and women's equality (now radical feminist) movements, self serving hustlers have taken over the conservation (now enviro) movement and perverted it beyond all recognition. All three are tools of totalitarian Leftism and we should be concerned with what they want to do not to the earth, but to people.

JimmyQ · Answer

I'm sorry. This is complete foolishness. I you think the creator of the earth is not fully capable of sustaining it until it no longer has any useful purpose, then you're brain is broken and nothing that any intelligent person has to say will even phase your scared, damaged intellect.

Miristheiss · Answer

No.
Because the Earth isn't in peril.

Acid rain,
Hole in ozone layer,
El nino
Mass starvation,
Overpopulation,
Air polution,
Nitrogen buildup blocking out all light,
All crude oil gone by 2000,
Another ice age,
Gobal warming,
Climate change... they have been predicting man made doomsdays forever. The Earth is fine. They are always predicting Armageddon to take freedom and liberty from people so that "wise" ones can save us.

DarthMeow · Answer

Not really. Their problem, not mine.
But i don't want people to pollute the earth more because of all the living animals, they don't deserve this destruction.
Just look at the pictures of sea turtles or any sea animals with plastic inside their stomach. It's horrible. I don't care about humans. They can live well even with polluted earth.

R_ūshī · Answer

All of this is more about saving our own asses and future generations rather than 'saving the Earth' in my opinion. Polluted or not, the Earth isn't going anywhere lol. We are.

So while, I'm not preoccupied about 'saving the Earth' or whatever, I try to live responsibly because my parents raised me to be like that and because I feel really sad about the animals paying for our bs.

oliverofjones · Answer

People say those things to feel better. And they should but the problems are generally bigger and can't be solved by a hand full of people yelling at another hand full of people who aren't the problem. We built a society based on principals meant for a few decades and held on to it for centuries. I am worried about the earth. But as one it's a drop in the ocean and that scares me.

locoloco68 · Answer

I'm concerned with our government more so than the planet once we're gone for over heal itself and it will start again it's happened that many times once the Earth can take no more Extinction you had your Global killings Ice Age flood we've been this far before and be back here again

Massageman · Answer

We do our part, but we don't become obsessive about it. God made a solar system and the Earth before He made mankind, and included many checks and balances, ie Intelligent Design. . Plants make oxygen from CO2, animals use the oxygen and give off CO2, etc.

Meatunnel69 · Answer

Im not convinced this timeline will exist when i die i. e the universe is only 30 years old and will end in approx 40 years from now. From my perspective it’s true so maybe the afterlife if there is one is all time lines or none so future generations or past generations it doesn’t matter to even think about

Caunsos · Answer

Honestly i would have to say no as i don't do anything about it but pay it lip service. I very a much aware the effects climate change has on agriculture, immigration, economic, the ecosystem and our health.

Not sure why i am in a state of inaction on the this issues. Maybe a lack of resources or unclear course of action i should. Possibly ever be more focused on my own survival.

crmoore · Answer

I don't believe the Earth will perish within 12 years, and I think most politicians are heavily exaggerating how badly things are becoming, but I absolutely have the earth's health and longevity in mind. I'm very fond of the human race and I'd like to see it prosper. The earth allowed us to do so and will continue to allow us to fo so. The earth is our home, and just like any home, we need to keep it clean.

Juxtapose · Answer

I'm not having kids.

That already makes my carbon footprint much smaller than a guy who is crazy about the environment but has a kid or two.

I'm also not wasting travel expenses by being an autistic little girl and pretending to know better than other people.

Codywow · Answer

No, the earth will be fine and so will humans, we can live in space the most hostile environment there is. We can surely withstand a couple degrees warmer climate, and my country only stands to gain economically and agerculturally from a warmer climate.

Jjpayne · Answer

It's tough, because it's here and now or later in the future... I've never been a person that thinks in the future but if life has taught me anything, sacrifice now brings better results in the future in many other things

Taylor_C · Answer

I´m not the least bit concerned, and I don´t care about future generations. Want to get rid of fossile fuels? Easy, nuclear power is the only sustainable solution.

matt367 · Answer

Hell ya homie.

What I would like to see is greener options becoming more viable for your avrage consumer bases.

Old indian proverb:

"We were not given this land. It was loaned to us from our children."

lightbulb27 · Answer

Im concerned with conserving resources for future generations, not saving the earth. the earth will save itself... but ther eis only so much resource that is obtainable. can't get that, future generations have a hard time / diff. life.

Fantastical · Answer

I would say consumerism more than anything is wrecking the world around us. It’s even replacing relationships. Until the world stops the mad pursuit of meaningless crap it will be hard to fix the world. I try to do my part, but it will take the masses to change anything.

cooldude64 · Answer

Im an Environmental Scientist for a Government (not going to say which one) but yes im concerned. The government still seems to have a capitalistic approach to these things though, im hoping it would change as time goes on.

genericname85 · Answer

not really. it's already fucked beyond repair at this point. future generations will suffer greatly from the shit we did in the past and that we continue to do. and at this point, what i do doesn't matter anymore.

BeMuse · Answer

I can’t fly or shoot lasers from my eyes… So my general potion is to adapt to what is happening and relocate. Do something good in your own corner of the world for yourself and your own kids.

Nik1hil · Answer

Yeah.. .
Save the earth and Terra-form Mars.. Build dormant reserve posts on moon..
Build a mobile colony on mercury.
Build a flying city on venus..

And make sure to build the line of solar system defense on Jupiter's moon Titan..

Pipeliner87 · Answer

No not really... The faster this new generation of spoiled entitled rotten kids kill them selves off the better the planet will be.

So faster Social entropy takes hold the faster we can get to what human's do best killing one another.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

We can't execute, re-train or lock away 'this generation'.  So I continue to give my own little contributions to save the planet - for the sake of itself.

cavmanier · Answer

Humans may be concerned but it's been shown that they overwhelming care more about cheaper prices of energy from fossil fuels.

CTexpress · Answer

I think there are a great number of us care but what can we do? If there is a clear path forward on how to save the planet most of us would give it our best shot but people like you and me dont have the power or influence to make a change

Valeesm · Answer

We do not need to change anything to save the planet. ( In Canada at least) global warming will allow us to grow for 3 seasons instead of 1. This could effectively crush world hunger. The same thing will happen for Russia

irielion82 · Answer

I am but I admittedly could do more. It all starts with the individual then the community and builds from there

MannMitAntworten · Answer

Nope. In fact I am waiting for an insurrection to thin the populace and get some aggression out for myself so I can have a little peace in my world again.

madgoat · Answer

We all should because we have the power to make long term changes now and I hear its critical. Critical for our children's children though. I'll be dead. And I have more immediate problems.

loveslongnails · Answer

Yes, I'm REALLY concerned about not fucking up the planet, period. It's just bad stewardship for one thing, and completely short-sighted. There's no reason for it either, except greed.

BlueDream · Answer

The generations coming up are plainly stupid and they themselves give no fucks, they are only going to get stupider, so no, I don't care.

i_am_tbjxii · Answer

I do. I literally keep my trash in my hand or pocket till find a trash can. Also pick up trash that isn’t mine sometimes. No body cares it’s that boomer mentality. (Not the boomers that actually acknowledge that climate change exist)

Claireluvskaren · Answer

Earth will save itself, worry about saving yourself.

arabgoddess · Answer

Mehh.. I'm not brainwashed but I try to do my part!

ArrowheadSW · Answer

Yes I am. I'm all for conservation, but I am not a fanatic... LOL

FuzzWizard · Answer

I don't give a fuck about humans, I want to save the earth so hard because we owe it. With fucked up the nature, I want it to be restore, then extinction of human race

sweet87 · Answer

I really am but there's only so much people can do as individuals or as a small collective minority, we need everyone to just refuse to do anything other than address the issues and it won't happen because it isn't profitable.

BlackieJ · Answer

Yes we a should be.. it's our world and we should look after it and everything and everyone in it.

humanearth · Answer

Nope, not all. I figure when the sun blows up. It will take Earth with it anyways. So why bother. Earth is doomed anyways.

JayParris · Answer

A lot of humanity is going to die off soon anyway. So saving the earth isn't something to worry much about

paul6965 · Answer

nobody can stop a circle of renewing. The Earth done it always, if there are human or not!  This all is a lie to get new law and money from the people around the world.

motownplayer2000 · Answer

I think that the earth will be just fine. Can we take steps to improve the qualities of life on this earth, absolutely. But we dont have to go out of our way to "save the earth."

kill_joy69 · Answer

If you're really concerned about the earth the easiest way is to kill our species but meh I don't really care what happens to earth after I die, let it rot for all i care

leahzrc · Answer

I think we have a lot of potential and if we want to be good people, we must do good for the people

ToastyTimothy1828 · Answer

I think all mankind needs to drink the Kool Aid!

Ninjazzed · Answer

Several species are being hunted to extinction, the oceans are being polluted, wake up people.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

I'd say yea but as long as humans are greedy and only want money, financial growth and power we are doomed

soleil2666 · Answer

Yeah, from baby boomer insanity and stealing, sure. I'd want children, and them to have children, and like that for at least 40000 years. So yes.

Pete671 · Answer

Greta Thunberg is awesome, put her in charge of everything so my grandchildren have a fighting chance of having enough air to breath,,,

datgirl · Answer

Not really. But that doesn't mean i support or add to the damage already in place. Its just not my priority 🤷🏽‍♀️

steve4u2 · Answer

Governments around the world don't seem to concerned about saving our planet, they say this and that, but nothing seems to improve, even the way we treat each other as humans isn't improving.

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