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What is it we're supposed to not do?
How far back do you want to go to 'save the earth'?
Remove every bit of civilization so we can return to a pre-human state?
The planet will adapt no matter what we do or don't do.
We may not, but the earth will.
Everything is temporary, including our time on this planet. We've been on this planet long enough. I'm sure other species will appreciate our extinction much more than they appreciate our efforts to avoid it.
What will happen will happen, and preventing it would require a massive drop in our standard of living, and an enormous degree of international cooperation that's just not going to happen. Recycling is BS. Actually reducing emissions would require following an organic plant-based diet, stopping the use of electronics and the internet, traveling by foot or bike, and many other drastic measures which everyone would have to follow.
So yeah, enjoy what you can while you can, move to a place that won't get devastated by tornadoes or swallowed up by water, and stop caring. Because after you're dead, nothing matters to you anymore.
That's the real test of whether they truly care. Whether they'd a V8 or SUV they don't really need or not.
Trimac, a V8 or SUV is not going to kill the planet. That you didn't worry about. You need to worry about industrial pollutants like mercury, GMO organisms and products like aspartame, and the like. Those are far more pressing issues than someone driving a ute or Corvette.
I don't care enough to change my lifestyle. The UN says eating more insects will solve world hunger, but personally, I wouldn't switch to insects if it saved 3 billion lives.
People don't understand the circle of life. Everything affects everything else. I'd be all for everyone taking one or two conservation classes to get educated.
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that'll make pollution go away! (to somewhere else in the world)