Forum Post: Protect your HOME
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 25, 2011, 12:41 a.m. EST by genanmer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1
Our planet is dying. Unless economic policies adapt to sustain both the planet and its people a serious ecological collapse will occur. If that occurs our HOME as we know it won't be able support all 7 billion of us.
Preserve, enrich, and protect your HOME
I've come to the conclusion that we are fucked...
wah? your post just globalized me in an instant. Here I was worried about 300 million souls. But you are right. There are 7 billion souls on this planet to look after.
Yes and there are many more if we include life from the ecosystems we depend on.
The cause is mass consumption. If everyone becomes more self-sufficient, we won't depend on the system so much. This will reduce the world population because, well, so many people depend on the mass consumption system.
Is that what you want?
I would like more people to understand the importance of sustainable practices and lifestyles.
If people make a choice to consume, at least make it consciously. (understand the effect(s) of the choice made)
Perfect example (one of many): the rampant overfishing, especially in the Pacific. If the demand isn't curbed soon, the consequences will be devastating, not only to the tuna and dolphin populations, but to the whole system of which they are a part.
Not to mention the 100 million metric tons of plastic plus many other toxins that continue to accumulate in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and all it's marine life.
Many of the animals we overconsume are laden with all sorts of man-made chemicals concentrated up the food chain.
Tragic but true. What we're doing to our oceans, the Pacific especially, is every bit as alarming as climate change, if not more so. And on a different but related note: consider the buzz these last few years about hydrogen fuel cells being one of the answers to our energy problems. These cells get their hydrogen from breaking down water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Now, I may be uninformed about the details but it seems to me that would mean water would essentially be the 'fuel source' for these devices. Am I the only one that's concerned with the image of using millions or billions of barrels of water a year to power our vehicles and other machines in this 'clean and green' world of the future? Especially when we're already entering a time of water shortages around the globe?
This is true. Freshwater reserves are becoming depleted faster than they are being replenished. This is made worse by outdated infrastructure leaking out at least a quarter of municipal water. And urban sprawl makes this problem worse by stretching the pipes everywhere. Then of course bottled water companies are the icing ontop as they continuously draw water out of municipal water supplies (often without filtering the water) to resell it.
As for energy there are many many alternative cheap energy generation and storage solutions but free energy means no profit. (so crappy alternative energy 'band-aids' are provided in the meantime) The problem is that it is unprofitable for the current companies to implement these sort of solutions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C01EM29uXWg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep4L18zOEYI
http://www.youtube.com/user/investincornwall?v=eoaxStKTYzM&feature=pyv&ad=17506050213&kw=geothermal%20heating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSBACzRE3Gw
http://peswiki.com/energy/OS
Thanks for the links. I'm going to check a couple out tonight.