People coming together and taking a stand for nature. Nature and it's creatures can no longer speak for themselves, they are too weak. I don't believe that it is too late for the older generations to learn to care more about how they go through life and i
I think that the solution lies in ourselves, waking up into awareness from our bliss in ignorance -- caring more, and then teaching our children to love and to care.
soraenRainForest/Andes/6426
It requires a world-wide shift in economic and environmental attitudes.
Economies world-wide are focused on materialism, whether collective materialism or individual materialism, and until humanity sees the need to quit shaping the environment to meet our needs, instead of vice versa(humans living within their means to shape
Jesse
RainForest/Andes/6884
Learn to Respect All Life, hold it in the highest of esteem. Know that what you do affects all life. What you hold in your Mind and Heart becomes your Future and the Future of all Life. Think with Respect, Act with Respect, and Consider ho
RainForest/Andes/1029
Everybodies cooperation...alot of government help...and a life long commitment...but first, everyone has to care and want to do something about it. Plus, a world wide ban together to gain back what we have destroyed.
JungleDoveRainForest/Canopy/9582
Information. Information is key to any problem. As well, people need to fight for these things they believe in (environmentalism, that is) - we need to make ourselves heard by our governments to put environmental concern in the forfront, ma
WildstarRainForest/Canopy/9924
Wow, complex questions. IMHO I think the answer is fewer people, More
co-operation and less competion person to person, people to nature, and
Nation to Nation.
Bill
There is no solution, as our population expands we are forced to expand our developments. The only possible solution is cut back on the growth rate, but then you have a whole new problem then.
Ricky
Education and leadership. So many people are woefully unaware of the treasures of the world, from the exotic species living in such extremes as deep sea thermal vents, to the native flora and fauna of their own backyards. People care about what they know awareness is a vital step towards environmental responsibility. Education is often best passed on by example, by leadership -- whether that's in the classroom, the neighborhood, or in the larger world community. It's a fantastic step - yet not enough - for environmentally aware policies and laws to be created. They need to be implemented on every level: from private citizens to industrial corporations to government agencies. The term "grassroots" movement is particularly appropriate.
seraph13RainForest/6309
Get rid of destructive humans whose lives revolve around the destruction of the earth and the money they get for it.
MarneeRainForest/Vines/5992
Participatory governments, educated people involved in their destinies, and a new accounting system that measures the true costs of any corporate production, whether that is gasoline (the costs of air quality reduction), nuclear power (the c
seasealRainForest/7428
a sharp decrease in the human population and a return to a simpler way of life, increased funding for the space program to muve industry off the planet surface
(chris hutson)/SunsetStrip/Underground/2538
Money. The government and every one else would like to protect the environment but it will cost money, like installing filters in factory chimneys will zost money.
(jon)/RainForest/5395
Education and everyone, regardless of money and greed, working for
a better enviornment. The elimination of fossil fuels would be the
greatest step forward.
(The Shark Man)/RainForest/Canopy/3018
Society has to wake up and take care of the planet. By remaining ignorant to the needs of our world, society is contributing to the extinction of our species.
(Jen)
Making all people more aware of what damage we're doing to the earth by dumping chemicals, using chemicals on our crops, the enormous amount of fossil fuel that's being consumed.
?
Our chance is to gain first an awareness of the future. We need a global responsibility of all
decisions.
Best would be if national governments are abolished or restricted in their authority. We would
need an effective birth control supported with a pension insurance system for all people in the
world.
Build windpower stations, create national parcs and other protected zones, avoid industrial zones,
gather reusable materials, develope soft tech industries. Become prepared for the unevitable.
(bolo)/RainForest/1650
I wait for an environmental disaster that wakes people up. The problems of this world are so big,
that no small solutions only can save it (they only make it a little better). We need to make people think of what they are doing, and affect
their opinions, raise our children in a better way (like the most important thing with Christmas is NOT the gifts!), and realize that the human
race isn't above the others!!! If this doesn't work, we have to crash democracy. A well-known Finnish ecospher, Pentti Linkola has created a
program for saving this planet: crash democracy, cut the birth rate, institute strict laws, don't let individuals make the decisions. Maybe this
is one solution.
(Linda Degerth) -
/RainForest/Canopy/1414
AWARENESS!!! And a dedication by governments and citizens to change it NOW. And quickly. Environmental laws need to be
toughened. The realization that the planet is dying should make everything else irrelevant. Everything now is too little too late.
Things need to be speeded up in order to, hopefully, reverse the problems.
(Angela Fleury) -
/RainForest/2035
There isn't one solution, but many. We need
to change our fuel sources to cleaner, efficient ones, and controlled cutting of trees for grazing land for a start(studies have shown
that the forests are actually 'worth' more-if humans want to discuss money-because of all the life they contain and support). It has
to do with the Circle of Life. Everything needs everyone, and vice versus. (ideas=) Send out bulletins to people on the
internet-businesses, personal web sites, etc. (if you don't already do that) That way alot of people can 'hear' the message and not
waste alot of paper! Encourage companies to recycle. There is money in it-if that is what they want to talk about.
(Bastet) -
/RainForest/9926
It is too complex for a simple solution, a solution must be interwoven into the fabric of our society
( Adam ) - ?
There are a million and one ways to protect the environment, but in my opinion, the most effective way of
doing so is to educate the people around you. Giving them explanation as to why it is vital to keep the integrity of our
environment should give them a clear understanding of why we should imply ourselves. By doing so, we make them understand
that, in the long run, conservation benefits everything and everybody, especially us.
(ShaggyGrrrrl) -
/RainForest/4557
reduce population growth and live more kindly with regard to everything on the planet
( ? ) - /RainForest/Vines/2647
I don't think there is one sure solution, but a combination of many. One thing I do agree with is that
everybody needs to get their hands and minds into this. Environmental issues should be everybody's concern at this moment.
(anonymous) - ?
Let me run it! No one will be happy, but hey, a totalitarian government (if not corrupted) could
probably figure things out with enough inputs :)
(Adam Nott) -
/RainForest/Vines/6723
People just need to look where their trash goes and on first hand they need to experience what animals go
through everyday just to survive in the sewage and trash in the oceans.
(Angela Longstreet) -
/RainForest/Vines/5376
Human nature, being what it is, will have to experience a rude awakening before anything of significance is
done...such as environmental collapse.
( ? ) - ?
More people need to become aware and do what they can to stop this carnage. We need to take
the power away fropm those who have the money and use it to exploit all beings and environs on this planet.
(The Lorax) -
/RainForest/Vines/7105
Man, changing. Man, stopping. This can't happend until conservation becomes the cultural norm in the west, replacing consumerism and
collective denial. Can that ever happen?
(anonymous) - ?
Education, Benevolence towards people, environment and wildlife, Love for the Earth and no greed/corruption
Daniel Millikin - ?
The laws should be more strict, politicians should care more about the environment than the companies money.
Pablo Merel - ?
Sterilize the human race! NOthing less!!!!!!!! The only REAL solution I can imagine is to find a chemical compound which when imbibed from
a young age has no immediate side-effects but at adolescence the 'victim' does not become fertile. Once you have managed to manufacture such a
substance all you have to do is disguise it with the flavour of Coca-Cola and within 20 years human population figures will be dropping significantly.
One wonders why the word 'humane' does not mean cruel and destructive.
(arachne) - ?
Peanut Butter-Okay kidding, sort of. If we reduce per capita energy consumption then we reduce pollution, destruction of biodiversity, climatic change, in fact it goes a long way to effecting all the major problems. With no fossil fuels and reduced per capita energy use the population holding capacity is probably about 2.5 Billion.
Becoming aware that every product and every service has an energy content. A cup of hot coffee has the energy content of the cup itself with its material
dragnfly-?
Education and implementation of ecologically sound values
(Dolphinus) - /RainForest/3965
People who care can make a difference...that's all that our enviroment need ..people who care.
People that can make a diffrence.
(Elisha) -
/RainForest/Vines/6535
Perhaps solar power, or perhaps energy provided by sound or the forcer of gravity - mgnetism etc. If fossil fuels arae not burned, the air wil onc again be pure. Farms will find
another way to control crops without using insecticides.
(j. mcgoldrick) - ?
Courage. The courage to change our life style. For a free society every few people use their gift's: their BRAIN. so many of us(humans) are willing to take to easy way out:
DON'T THINK. Stop, look around and evaluate your surroundings and effect change toward the Good of Us All.
I think, we all have to act naturally. We have to admit that we need to take something from environment,
but don't take more than we could use. What have been damaged can never be replaced, but don't create more damage
than it already have.
(Agustinus) -
/RainForest/3618
Education. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. And by education, I mean of every human alive, not just k-12.
(Patricia Pennell) -
/RainForest/6046
It is easier to describe what is not the solution-----it is not the ESA with all its perverse incentives.
( ? ) - ?
"Drastic" laws. Recycling should be an international law. Harmful products like styrofoam should be banned.
The rain forests should be preserved. These laws don't seem to "drastic" to me. Only sensible.
(Tim>>GoinGreen) -
/RainForest/Vines/4990
Everybody working together for their communities and the larger community
of Earth as a whole instead of everybody working for the corruptions I
mean corperations. The problems lie not within the forests but lies within
civilization. So we as a whole have to stand up and say "THAT"S IT!! We Are
Tired Of This Shit!! No More!! We Are Now Going Back To The Old Paths,
The True Paths, Not The Paths Man sets before us but the path the creator
sets before us.
(John Diewald aka Chuie) -
/RainForest/Vines/1284
leave Nature alone -- She did just fine without our "intervention" for 4 billion years
(Dave Botkin) -
/RainForest/5653
We must all reduce reuse, and recycle, not hunt endangered species, and forget about using redwoods.
(Natasha) -
/RainForest/6157
There isn't really a solution, but we can stop using cars, protect all forests that are left, and stop using materials that are toxic.
(Joanie Tsang) -
/RainForest/1584
Decentralisation,& localisation, of energy,food, production, POPULATION CONTROL: ONE ADULT, ONE CHILD.
(Duck, the fundamentalists will HATE this one) Permaculture as a standard food/social/work/conservation system.
Decentralisation of power, control, economy. All of the above, plus.
(Eehor) -
/RainForest/Vines/5900
People need to be more careful...and think about the enviornment and what they are doing to it before they think of advancing in
technology and such....
(roonierella) -
/RainForest/Vines/4473
I wish I knew. I still think that education is the best solution.
(Jeff Schumacher) - ?
more people caring about their surroundings, not throwing trash out the car windows...planting trees to replace the ones being cut down.
(Laura Morrison/Big Red) -
/RainForest/5151
Don't litter, recycle, pick up trash. Don't use aerosal cans. Give donations to animal protection groups,
enviroment conservation groups, and other such organizations.
(Jaala) -
/RainForest/2913
There is no one solution to our problems nor can 1 man alone stand and solve the problems
we as the human race have to stand together, against the polution that fills the air,
against those who buy the products of animals that cause them to be hunted, against
those who continue to worry about how much is in their pocket instead of worring about
the future of man kind. So I guess WE as the HUMAN race are the answer... not we as
1 but we as a Whole
(guinny) -
/RainForest/3683
Start Passing laws to stop polluting, dumping of toxins, and stop using Oil. Start Recycling,
Plants Trees and making the RainForest of our would Environmental Sanctuaries not to be slashed
and burned lumbered or the animals poached. People must find out how importain the Earth is
and they must not take it for granted.
(Myst) -
/RainForest/Vines/1009
That is too involved a question to answer here but essentially it involves whole community
involvement.
(Mark A. Salazar) - /?
It is a very western notion to think that every problem has a solution (a product of our enlightenment era optimism). Contrarily, I am very
much of the opinion that we are in the grip of biological forces which are well beyond our ability to control or solve. Because there are so
many variables involved, no one can say with certainty when exactly the population bubble is finally going to burst. But whenever it does,
all who depend for their subsistence on the detritivorian niche which we have artificially created will become extirpated. If there is a
solution, it is an individual one only, the great mass of humanity is unsavable. But before the crash comes full force upon us, we can seek
to learn the skills of primitive survival. We can band together with like minded individuals to form mutual support groups (tribes). And we
can put our newly learned skills, and our newly forged communities into action, by living as much as possible outside the urban-industrial
system.
(Ed Huefe) -
/RainForest/7696
recycling..., preserving forests and nature..., reclaiming the land and the rivers and the oceans
(Rebel) -
/RainForest/Vines/4666
Besides just getting rid of humans altogether, education.
(anonymous)
There are none as long as people without one remain in power.
(David Tompkins) - ?
Stop talking about it and do something. I would like to see Congress get off their
butts and start something that they have only been talking about doing. The 21st
century is almost here, let's star making some changes. Introduce alternative forms
of transportation, crack down on illegal dumping, halt deforestation. If enough people
stand up together to make a difference, the world will begin to change.
(DeafChick) -
/RainForest/9412
Recognition that we are becomming a "world community", that our actions affect others, and
that we must together envision the future and work to create what we all need to survive.
Sharing resources with those who have not developed their own economic independence, so
that the world (and us) can in turn benefit from thier lack of "development" (S.Fotopulos)
Either eradication of humanity or evolution of humanity. The latter being my preference!
It's time we wake up to reality folks! There's a whole world outside of Babylon...We
don't need most of the stuff we have! If people just thought about where all of their
products come from, packaging, chemicals, synthetics, and where they go in the end
landfills, waterways, atmosphere, and how it affects thier own bodies and those of others
then maybe there's a chance for owning up to the responsibilty. Unfortunatly, most people
are too afraid to look at all the harm they've caused so they keep thier heads in the sand
like the majority do and it's all out of sight out of mind! To take responsibilty means
to change the way we live, to change the way we perceive reality and our place in it.
(Luna7) - /?
the only solution is to make people care about the planet and
want to save it for their children
(dum_dum) -
/RainForest/6452
I think the only thing that we can do is to educate people about the
consequences of their mistakes. Sure money helps, but it doesn't do the trick if your
giving it to a bunch of idiots.
(Dawn) - /?
The solution to the world's environmental problems is the
evolution of man into a people who are not economically driven, thus
priorities will change and environment wil become more important.
(Jeff) -
/RainForest/Vines/1494
Educating the people starting in our schools, but everyone really needs to be educated since
everyone is destroying it. (anonymous)
As I said above, individual responsibility and awareness. As
much as I advocate conservation, organics, and self sustance, I know that
my global awareness is limited. I try my best to do what I can to insure
the future in my small ways. I feel that if everyone did that, our
evnironmental problems would greatly diminish.
(herblady) -
/RainForest/9767
Renewable energy. Yes, by using microwave technology,
we can power almost anything on this earth! This solves
for most pollution, lack of fossil fuels, and helps the
economy.
(Brandon Utech) -
RainForest/6137
It lies with each
individual as well as in combined action by concerned people to
pressurise govenments and big commerce into having constructive and
practical environmental policies. And if we are serious about this we
have to accept that some of these policies may be very harsh and
unpopular.
(Ilze) -
RainForest/4226
The solution to the environmental problems of this planet
lies in every individual. It lies in education, and cultural encouragement
of environmentally beneficial practices.
(Deb Burkey) -
RainForest/7597
There is no fixed solution... In my opinion, limitation of man's
population number and his influence is the only answer
(Hotwaterbottle) -
RainForest/7537
In the humans who inhabit our world. The solution has to come from us!
(Penny) -
RainForest/8813
in us....we got to begin and follow the laws of nature instead
of trying to force it to follow our artificial rules
(parag) -
RainForest/5290
As I mentioned above - there are so many problems - it
would take a seperate task force for each individual problem to really
get things done. More lobbying for environmental protection laws and
global unity behind them would only be the first step.
(Gabriele Endress) -
RainForest/8710
