http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...nvironment_dc_3


Quote:
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.


Well, with a capitalistic economy which literally sucks up all the resources to satisfy the people's demands, how can we possibly protect anything we have? The many SUV's Americans love to drive to just pick up a gallon of milk is not helping the situation.

Maybe it's time to close down a couple of thousand of businesses and a couple of large corporations. That will prevent them from using any resources to build more goods and products and pollute this world. It's also time to realize that our needs are hurting this planet, not helping it. No matter how much you hear that capitalism is good, you cannot deny the fact that capitalism is a system of massive production which requires a huge amount of resources on a daily basis to survive.

I guess people enjoy having quality furniture at home more than seeing the tree that provided the furnitre back in the Amazon or in the Mountains, where it's supposed to be.

individuals are smart

people are stupid

just let nature sort itself out. don't worry about it too much, because nobody else does.

Maybe Joni Mitchell was right after all....

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone...."

about the time she released that song, another Canadian artist, a film maker, released the documentary "If you love this planet", about the growing Acid Rain problem in the Great Lakes region. At the time it was banned in the US as "Foreign Propeganda"