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Forum Post: What is the number one problem on this planet and what would the trillion/billionaire Elite's do about it..?

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 10, 2011, 10:48 p.m. EST by Feloneius (9)
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Just wondering if anyone knows this answer..?

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[-] 3 points by earthwarrior80 (9) 13 years ago

Environmental Degradation/Destruction (without a livable planet, humanity won't survive). The elite won't do, and will never do, anything about it because that's how they got their Billions and Trillions.

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[-] 1 points by Owen (28) 13 years ago

Hi earthwarrior!

I suspect you are already aware, but I wanted to share these essential facts about the environmental impact of our food because you're an earth warrior :)

  • Raising animals for food causes more water pollution in the U.S. than any other industry because animals raised for food produce 130 times the excrement of the entire human population---87,000 pounds per second! Much of the waste from factory farms and slaughterhouses flows into streams and rivers, contaminating water sources.
  • Each vegetarian saves an acre of trees every year! More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to grow crops to feed animals raised for meat, and another acre of trees disappears every eight seconds. The tropical rain forests are also being destroyed to create grazing land for cattle. Fifty-five square feet of rain forest may be razed to produce just one quarter-pound burger.
  • Of all raw materials and fossil fuels used in the U.S., more than one-third is used to raise animals for food. Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car twenty miles and enough water for seventeen showers. Of all agricultural land in the U.S., 87 percent is used to raise animals for food---that's 45 percent of the total landmass in the U.S.
  • More than half the water consumed in the U.S. is used to raise animals for food. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat. A totally vegetarian diet requires 300 gallons of water per day, while a meat-eating diet requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day.
  • In the U.S., animals raised for food are fed more than 80 percent of the corn we grow and more than 95 percent of the oats. The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people---more than the Earth's entire human population.
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[-] 0 points by Feloneius (9) 13 years ago

that makes no sense...??? theres more to it...why would you spend years and years building wealth just to choke on noxious air, or have no water to drink..etc...Either they have a plan/we have been invaded/or humanity is extremly stupid..!!

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[-] 1 points by jph (2652) 13 years ago

last one.

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[-] 1 points by earthwarrior80 (9) 13 years ago

"why would you spend years and years building wealth just to choke on noxious air, or have no water to drink..etc

First, don't identify me with "them".

Second, they are insane, they think that their wealth will save them, protect them form the noxious air and allow them to buy all the bottled water they can (which they steal form third world countries).

Third: we did become stupid, allowing things to get this bad for 10,000 yrs. (Iraq used to be heavily forested). We're just starting to awaken from our hallucinogenic stupor.

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[-] 1 points by Nevada1 (5843) 13 years ago

Hi Feloneius,

Total agreement.

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[-] 1 points by islandnotes (2) 13 years ago

Perverse wealth distribution, corruption, even sources for energy aside; inequity is engendered from quanta of energy. Facing this fact is uncomfortable, and de-legitimizing to much of our status quo. However, to ignore or deny this, it to commit a foundational error in efforts at reform. Aloha nui loa!

http://islandnotes.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/wall-street-and-speed-limit/

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[-] 1 points by Edenispossible (2) 13 years ago

I don't know what elite's will do about it, but there are some non-elite groups who are currently replanting the earth. There is also info how to re-green a desert and reforest the rainforest.... we have to want to do this... or mother nature will do it herself once we wipe ourselves off the face of the planet due to mass destruction of the oceans, ecosystems, etc.

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[-] 1 points by Edenispossible (2) 13 years ago

to add...personally I find us all responsible. If we use toilet paper, read books, print paper = loss of trees/forests; medicines and heavy metals in our drinking water; technology creating e-waste; pesticides/chemicals in the food chain; plastics and oil spills in the ocean: the list goes on...we all contribute. What choices will we continue to make? What can we live without? What are our needs vs our wants? We all need to take responsibility for our role in the degradation and/or restoration of the planet (that is if we are conscious enough to do so). Peace.

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[-] 1 points by steve005 (256) from Cincinnati, OH 13 years ago

its overpopulation,(in their opinion, with video proof), they are going to start wars, plagues, earthquakes etc, if not them god.

in my opinion the problem is materialism, and how we get our food, and build/heat and cool our houses. those are the two main problems that I have solutions for but aren't allowed because building codes and farm rules

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[-] 1 points by Feloneius (9) 13 years ago

Amen to the first and second of your posts,I have done alot of investigating this matter...Ask yourself...what if they had froseen this way back when the bible was wrote...Could they have held power..and lines together say 800-1000 years..planning on this moment...To actually pull off the biggests 9/11 of all Armageddon..And be as blatant as to make movies about it..I mean i have inside info..they /US has scored close to 100 trillion dollars out of these wars...and most of the arms and armor were built before our ecomomy downturned..Where is the money..????? and why did they shut the shuttle program down after spending trillions and trillions on a space station..There is more going on here than meets the eye..i know for fact..just wondering if im alone..??

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[-] 1 points by jph (2652) 13 years ago

Ever seen They Live John Carpenter's 1988 classic (cheesy) sci-fi? [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/ ]

I have often wondered if indeed outside forces have taken over,. as they really do seem to be TRYING to change the atmosphere and the planet in ways that do not support human life,. . Although it is an interesting thought, I have found no actual hard evidence to support this, other than the bizzar actions of the 1%.

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[-] 1 points by steve005 (256) from Cincinnati, OH 13 years ago

No I know what you mean, they are using us, each and every one of us, whether we're on welfare of rich, we are serving their grander plan

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