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Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to scientists 60 Minutes (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jan 2023 OP
Club for Growth pissed on every conservation effort bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #1
If next generations are to experience any kind of livable environment, Magoo48 Jan 2023 #3
No more grizzly bears in California, Uncle Joe Jan 2023 #2
maybe if they ground all those jet airplanes we have flying every day!That is a ton of pollution. demigoddess Jan 2023 #4
T minus a maximum of 1.5 million years. GreenWave Jan 2023 #5

Magoo48

(4,716 posts)
3. If next generations are to experience any kind of livable environment,
Mon Jan 2, 2023, 03:52 PM
Jan 2023

massive grassroots movements across the globe along with extreme paradigm shifts in what humans value must take place in the next decade. Not likely.

First, we look to the top for answers and action. Not gonna happen. Multiple layers of greed, self interest, and bullshit in corporate politics are too entrenched.

And second, first world citizens will not be inconvenienced while much of the third world is simply trying not to starve.

demigoddess

(6,641 posts)
4. maybe if they ground all those jet airplanes we have flying every day!That is a ton of pollution.
Mon Jan 2, 2023, 05:47 PM
Jan 2023

Not to mention the 'sport' of watching cars go around and around for hours on end. There is a lot of things we could give up if we were smart.

GreenWave

(6,759 posts)
5. T minus a maximum of 1.5 million years.
Mon Jan 2, 2023, 05:57 PM
Jan 2023

By then it is way too late. That is for the last dying breaths of Mother Earth.

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