Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.
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As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.
The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.
We are losing our environment so rapidly.
I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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