Here are my thoughts on changes that everybody should make.
1. Having less kids. (world’s population is out of control)
2. Living in apartments in large urban centers. (less urban sprawl, uncontrolled growth of suburbs pushing out wildlife habitat)
3. Buying local produce as much as possible (less fuel used to transport)
4. Stop buying so much disposable stuff (water bottles, paper plates, etc..)
5. Take public transportation or walk (this is much easier when you live in a city that has good transportation available)
6. Greater use of biodiesel, and more research on alternative fuels.
7. Conserve energy.
8. Reuse and recycle.
These are some thoughts. I’m sure there are many more that people can think of. What would your changes be?
I’m not trying to say that these should be mandatory laws, but I think people should be educated that they have options. It should all be voluntary.
Originally posted 2009-09-05 12:53:30.
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One way to have immense amounts of energy without much waste is a process called Cold Fusion, I learned about it in science but it requires extreme temperature ranges beyond our current knowledge. Also I wish places had more bike lanes, so instead of starting up my car and driving like 2 miles i could safely ride my bike to the store. One idea I had was to have a screening test before anyone buys a large vehicle ( ie SUV or super duty trucks) because everyday i see people diving the huge cars and one person’s in it. Another thing to focus on would be air travel , which is a huge contributor to global warming/ carbon emissions, we need to develop alternative fuels or new engines which burn cleaner. Last thing I guess would be carpooling, easy yet effective.
I agree with everything you suggested except for #2. I am sorry, but I live way out in the woods and have a cleaner, more environmental homestead than the townies ever will. I do not like being around crowds of people, and being unable to hear the owls and whipoorwills at night or see the bats swooping down beneath the moon to eat mosquitoes. Since I don’t have kids or drive an SUV or water a lawn, I think I’ve earned the right to live this way.
I’d like to see more solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and biopower and less fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Also, small electronic devices might one day be powered by organic batteries containing engineered microorganisms. Just add water and a nutrient and they would produce electricity (read up on chemosynthetic bacteria and genetic engineering).
One fairly recent phenomenon is an upsurge in the sales of bottled water. It seems innocuous but the opposite is true. To check for yourself just how environmentally damaging this practice is, go to your search engine and type:
union of concerned scientists bottled water
I think people should take care of plants (thats one thing). The reason is, as every one knows (but some don’t care about) is because plants provide air for living creatures. Including us. I think people should consider them selves animals (and mammals) instead of considering homosapheins of being one – of – a – kind. Saying if we aren’t animals, would be basically insulting animals. Okay, now back to my reasons.
Neiborhoods should have more libraries and more advanced libraries (not that I’m saying libraries aren’ t good, they are great! As a matter of fact, I’m in a library right now.) Libraries have loads of books and movies to help people learn about things.
I should be getting to my idea about now. People have to learn to be energy savers! We’re wasting energy on lots of stuff, like fans and ACs. (Also refrideorators and household products and so on). You can takse a walk outside to cool down, or go read in the library to cool down.
Uh oh! Times running out. Hope you get the idea.
one change i’d go for is removal of cafe standards.
it would be SO cool to have a factory installed big block V8 in a modern car. like a 440 or a 426 in a dodge magnum/charger.
or a 502 in the new camaro.
it’s a lot of work getting one in there from scratch.
End factory farming and change the diet of the average human to that of vegetarian. I think it’s the thing that would be most beneficial to all.
I have many changes that I and many others would like and several are easy to follow, help us, our world, and saves money:
I have lots of info that I think you will find quite helpful and enlightening:
(For tons of inspirational info)
(For all the environmental info)
Let us all strive for a greener/brighter future by helping to create a solid foundation for future generations to build upon, so we can hand them a beautiful world, filled with never ending awe and wonders!!
Where peoples differences and uniqueness are accepted, where we all live as one, helping one another so that we can all play our own mysteriously beautiful melodies in the never ending, awe inspiring, song of life
I truly have faith in humanity and believe that someday our lives and the world in which we live will truly be transformed for the better.
My number one issue is the use of pesticides. How many pounds have we ingested in our lifetime? How many toxins are on our clothes, in what we wash with etc. Must we have the greenest lawn in the neighborhood? Must our gardens be featured in the news as being the best?
How many of our illnesses are due to all of these chemicals?
All great ideas–except the kids part–yes the world is WAY over populated, but realistically less kids isn’t going to make a real dent. Although I think voluntary birth control for anyone who wants it should be available–and I mean everywhere and every person.
Otherwise, “Saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers” –Mother Theresa
And for the earths sake–outlaw disposable diapers!!
My personal wish is that the solar energy companies would make panels more affordable, and also get them to low-income people. 2 birds with one stone! (That’s a rather gruesome saying.)
I’d like to see every new construction have solar panels (or wind machines in appropriate areas) enough to provide for the electric needs of average occupancy. If not, the builder must pay a LARGE fee to build, the fees must be used to provide solar/wind power to schools in the area.
And;
don’t buy products that are way over packaged. And then be sure you let the manufacturer know why you didn’t buy it.
Reuse Reuse Reuse
How many things can you do with plastic grocery bags?
Habitat your property for native creatures and plants, invite everyone to see how awesome it is.