This question is inspired by a film I recently saw called The 11th Hour. It explains how mankind has been destroying planet Earth since the discovery of natural resources. We now have huge issues like global warming, climate change and biodiversity problems. Do you feel humans can fix these issues? Why?|||We already have a lot of the technologies we need to do it and we've got quite a bit more in R%26amp;D.
Besides, we've solved environmental problems before.
There are some political problems with some of the technologies we're going to need being illegal in some places and being phased out in favour of polluting technologies in others (Germany is the best example of that at the moment) but when things get bad enough the public will eventually allow them to be used. Anti-technology groups have a history of failure and this will be no different.|||No, it cant be fixed, it never could because the main cause behind climate change is LONG TERM natural astronomical cycles, we are talking cycles of 25,625 years. At the very most major catastrophes could have been somewhat avoided by cleaning up the Earth, but that needed to be done over 10 years ago, now we are on the very verge of the problems that climate change will have on us, that is BILLIONS of die-offs which would have happened even if we had cleaned up the earth(this is the hoax part(politics make it seem like the problem can be fixed when they know its impossible)) Humans have contributed in a way that makes the aftermath of melting caps release methane into the air, which could have been avoided by not pumping toxins into the air, like planet earth was some wasteland, this is what you get with human greed and ignorance, congratulations humanity. So instead of just going through a a cycle, it will go through a cycle, kill billions, then cause disease and bad health to the human added affects that will affect life on Earth for decades if not centuries. Maybe the Earth will evolve during these mass die offs to do something useful with extra methane buildup and the release of CO2 as a byproduct of combustion of it.|||There have only been a few human societies and civilizations that have been able to successfully manage issues of resource limitations and environmental degradation on a long-term basis. Those that have done so used draconian measures that, because of a strong central government with full religious backing, could be successfully enforced on a sometimes unwilling population. Just on a statistical basis, given the large number of societies and civilizations that have failed, it is doubtful western civilization will be among these success stories. Aside from the raw percentages, there is nothing in evidence that suggests the developed countries have the political capital and societal mindset to even accept there might be significant issues, let alone invest time, energy, and money into addressing those issues.
To paraphrase the above, if faced with decided whether to bet that entropy will increase or decrease, short-selling entropy is generally a bad idea.
|||Global warming and climate change are the same thing and neither one can be convincingly blamed on humans. Biodiversity is a made up problem. Clearly, humans have affected certain species making them scarce or extinct but I don't think we have significantly reduced biodiversity in most habitats. We have probably adversely increased biodiversity in many places with introduction of derelict species. Since humans didn't cause the warming or climate change than obviously there is nothing to "fix". |||The government could have solved it years ago. Here's what happens when you find a way to fix it. Look at more on youtube about s t a n m e y e r s . If you use his name in referance here it wont be posted. At least in the past. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2HMrjbYd鈥?/a>|||I think you grossly underestimate what has already been done in the USA and Western Europe over the last 30 years. We spend millions of dollars every year on environmental cleanup and resolution.
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