Largest mass extinction in 65 million years under way, scientists say.

We deserve it!

What,a Scientist would say ,hhhmmmm,by then we can clone,a new bach of Exstinction,to exploit... = )

We have to get back to basics and what really matters, people seem to forget the purpose of a house is to provide shelter.

While architects and designers have started to explore alternative and more efficient methods and materials the green campaigners have started to look at how important aesthetic qualities can be. This way people are working together in total unity, this is the way all things should be. People should not be driven by the money sign but think about a greener future for the generations to come. I believe thinking green and living environmentally friendly is away of life not a trend that you follow. People should not follow the media and be influenced by it, they make people feel powerless to the scale of the situation the world finds itself in today. I should hope to see that environmentally friendly design is taken for granted in the future, this way it can be properly integrated into the world. Each person has the power to make a difference and promote good causes.

“While experts argue and governments prevaricate the choices we make as consumers represent direct action at the most and immediate effect. Collectively these choices multiplied across millions of households have a crucial impact in preventing and reversing the harm done to our planet. Think global, act local, is the environmentalist’s watch word. Where better to start than our individual environments; at home?” (ECO Elizabeth Wilhide;8)

damn

It's okay. Paleontologist Jack Horner seems to think we'll soon be able to clone dinosaurs from living birds. If we can do that, then we can resurrect any extinct species. Can you say guilt-free consumption?

we need to let evolution heal what has already become extinct, perhaps these creatures, such as the golden frog on the article page, can reoccur in nature, if we stop abusing her.

right on Crob,
if you have a patio and some sunlight, hang your laundry to dry. If you buy a coffee every day, bring a thermos so you're not constantly using resources and throwing them away. There are SO MANY things we can do to tweak our lifestyle, but the big problems like how to supply electricity to everyone will HAVE to be met with a little big of 'give' - as crob says, to get away from the idea of running every appliance in the house simultaneously as if electricity were a limitless source.

We are simply not entitled to as much as we assumed. The earth is trying to tell us that before it's too late.

We really need to decentralize our power grid. Obviously heavy industry will still need the massive voltage that only huge power plants can provide (huge wind farms maybe) -- but what exactly are the power needs of the average home? How much of that could be provide though a combination of energy smart appliances/devices and simple solar panels? Seems to me that the problem is always something along the lines of, "Well you can run your dryer and your dishwasher using just solar, but you can't run both appliances at the exact same time." I could live with that. I don't think a lot of people would have a problem with that! I'm pretty sure (though I'm no scientist) that solar could provide the bulk of a home's energy needs most of the time IF we had a house wired to tell us how much current was availble at any given time and we knew how much current each appliance used. Can't run the big plasma TV at the same time as the dryer? No problem. I'll either read a book for an hour or let it dry on the line. I think a painless way to move people into solar would be if we get away fromt he idea that we "must" provide enough eletric juice to run every single appliance in the house simultaneously. I think I could live with only run a few appliances at a time if it meant I basically got all my electricity for free from the sun.

crob80227 - your idea is great. The politicians aren't that smart, and wouldn't that undermine the whole concept of centralized global power and resources in the hands of the few?

Within this question is the answer to yet another question; why didn't they use solar power?

Let's take it further, instead of spending billions upon billions on weaponry, death and destruction, why didn't the United States government spend billions and billions on solar panels in the United States to reduce our dependency on environmentally dirty oil?

Imagine if we installed a hundred million solar panels throughout this country. Can you imagine the reduction in oil and coal use that would occur?

While we are at it, we could cut back on beef production and really make significant headway environmentally.

Isn't this obvious already? This earth needs to cleanse itself and the only way it's going to do that is we (humans, being that all of the global problems relate back to us and our actions) go COMPLETELY green, or die off. This may be too extreme, but it's the truth, isn't it? Humankind truly does need to implement better ways of living and how we approach life in general.

Crob. You make us sound down right benevolent. They had power. We went in and one of the first things we did was bomb hell out of the power, and water plants. The reason they still don't have power and water is they blow up what we build because they have no jobs and we bring in outside cheap labor to do the rebuilding. What would we do under those circumstances? Another reason things aren't up and running is our crooked contractors who's main job is to just take the money.

The climate change problem is inextricable from the communication problem. Why is it so difficult to get a call in to NPR Science Friday to tell them their pundits are apparently unaware of both the extent of the problem and available solutions? Why is it so hard to communicate to the man on the street? Why is it so hard to get back the communication we used to have between ourselves and our environment? Tons of information is being exchanged across species and between mind & matter, but the human mind seems to get more abstracted & distracted the greater the danger it faces. Isn't it strange that advances in cybernetics and communication technology don't seem to be even making a dent in what can get across from one person to the other?

The irony is so rich we need never feel poor again.

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Absolutely right. And people worry about cigarette smoke.

But damn! If we did that, and started taking care of the environment we would have to give up consumer capitalism. We wouldnt be able to have all the material excess we currently NEED to be happy..... ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY!?

=P Yeh, try telling the politicians. Personally I think we are already boned beyond the point of being un-boned. I would love to be optomistic. But it just seems environment and welfare of the planet come second to this generations material desires.