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Should America be the worlds watch dog? There is cost in a lot of different ways to be the worlds police and its gotten to the point America can barely pay the price of keeping its own act together, much less the rest of the worlds.
It hurts but I am thinking maybe America invests in America and unless some issue truly threatens our country, to hell with it. Adopt a few "lions, tigers, and bears" and keep them safe in our country. If other country's insist on destroying their environment, I hate it, but they are the ones that have to live with it. We could do things like refusing to trade, provide aid etc. if they are that stupid. If they cast their eye on our country thinking, hey it nice over there, too bad. Don't even think about it.
Well, that is one way to do it, and perhaps that is in the mind of those who advocate for perpetual war, although I doubt it. But there are effective means of lowering the fertility rate that don't involve murdering those who are already here. Increasing educational opportunities for women, increasing access to effective birth control, economic incentives for small families all work. But can we figure out how to decrease population growth and still care for our elderly, for example?
There is still time to stop and reverse it, but it likely won't happen because people in this country don't care enough and there is too much money in the illegal poaching industry for third world countries in Africa and Asia to crack down on it (nor do they have the resources to do so if they wanted to). Sad.
40 years ago the headlines read "we are in the next ice age", now "we're going to burn up and it's our fault" and "headed for extinction".
Every time man makes these predictions they end up completely wrong.
To decide that nobody cares is also way over the top. I find it disingenuous when people make such wild claims and offer no realistic solutions.
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Who is "everyone else"?
Did you honestly need clarification on such a simple fact?
Ugh. We should never have invented vaccines or advanced medical technologies to save humans and extend life expectancy. What were we thinking? Now too many damn people will destroy the planet.
Wasn't there a thread just a couple weeks ago about how the population is declining and we don't have enough babies being born? Make up your minds.
Should America be the worlds watch dog? There is cost in a lot of different ways to be the worlds police and its gotten to the point America can barely pay the price of keeping its own act together, much less the rest of the worlds.
It hurts but I am thinking maybe America invests in America and unless some issue truly threatens our country, to hell with it. Adopt a few "lions, tigers, and bears" and keep them safe in our country. If other country's insist on destroying their environment, I hate it, but they are the ones that have to live with it. We could do things like refusing to trade, provide aid etc. if they are that stupid. If they cast their eye on our country thinking, hey it nice over there, too bad. Don't even think about it.
So what about the creatures right here in our own country that we are failing to protect? It's much easier to protect fluffy lion cubs, for example, than mussles in North America (more than half of which are going extinct or are endangered), or vertigo snails, or flat-headed mayflies (both of which are endangered in my home state). We could work on those issues without having to be the world's watch dog, yet year after year we cut funding for protecting these resources in our own country.
The main problem the earth faces today is there are too many people on it. Humans are like a virus that invades and destroys all around it as it slowly kills the host.
The best thing we could do is stop having kids and let people die of illness and old age then the earth and animals might have a chance.
40 years ago the headlines read "we are in the next ice age", now "we're going to burn up and it's our fault" and "headed for extinction".
Based on what, that one fake a$$ photoshopped Time cover?
Which side is right, the side that the science is on or the side that fakes old magazine covers? A puzzle for the ages!
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