Wondering how many Members, are concerned at the state of our Planet. I believe we are bad managers, and destroying it,at an alarming rate.Does anyone really care? Or think,the next generation can take care of the problem.
What do you think needs doing,now,if we are to improve,for next Generations?
Read this article and it concerned me,the sheer size of the the amount of rubbish, we have allowed to enter,even our Oceans.
Safe Site.
http://gulfnews.com/world/United_Kingdom/10187851.html

We are slowly (actually more and more rapidly) polluting our planet whether from garbage or industrial waste or carbon emissions. It seems reasonable to assume that this cannot continue indefinitely, and that if we do not begin to make an effort to reduce pollution now, it will become either much more difficult later, or that some of the problems will become irreversible.
Z

Very true!

I think we all should be concerned with our actions that impact unfavorably on the planet.

That is what bothers me so much about the warmaholics and their alarmism - if it is based on bad science, which it may be, and it missdirects our efforts, ultimately it will just make the situatiion worse and delay efforts which would have been more beneficial.

While this excerpt relates to the use of oil to make bottled water, it also suggests to my mind that there are an awful lot of empty bottles out there and very few are recycled.

"It takes 162g of oil and seven litres of water (including power plant cooling water) just to
manufacture a one-litre bottle, creating over 100g of greenhouse gas
emissions (10 balloons full of CO2) per empty bottle. Extrapolate this
for the developed world (2.4m tonnes of plastic are used to bottle water
each year) and it represents serious oil use for what is essentially a
single-use object. To make the 29bn plastic bottles used annually in the
US, the world's biggest consumer of bottled water, requires more than
17m barrels of oil a year, enough to fuel more than a million cars for a
year."

Z