"The number of confirmed hybrids has since risen to eight, all of them descending from the same female polar bear" Someone likes herself a little grizzly
No they don't. All the pollution across the world from these corporations is killing the planet. It's not just the plastics. They won't cut down on emissions because they are greedy. Whenever someone gets into office to try and regulate the emissions, they all throw their money into an opponent who will deregulate. They take no responsibility. That shit is killing our Ozone layer making the Earth hotter. We are already seeing water levels rise as the ice caps continue to melt. It's only going to get worse. More fires. Bigger hurricanes. We're going to end up turning the Earth into Venus if we aren't careful.
That's what corporations want. They want us focused on culture wars because then we aren't focused on them.
Look at the microplastics video I put in this thread. Our oceans are filled with plastic and believe me when I say, we are not recycling anything in this country, whether or not we separate our trash..
I remember as a kid thinking that the first attempt at life was on Venus, but they buggered it up and thats why it was the way it was. I guess it was more of a sci-fantasy as a kid. Kind of a "cautionary tale" of what could/would happen to earth if we didn't fix things. Also kind of thought it would've been cool to make a movie where there was life on Mars, Venus and Earth (how fucking cool would that be if there was life on those 2 other planets, and better yet, wtf isn't there??), but Mars and Venus mucked it up and had to escape to Earth. Like, they were both farther along than the earth was, and that's why certain things happened on earth that seemed so far out.
OK, will do. But, yeah, did you use the word abhorrent in this thread? It's absolutely the case. And, dang, currently, I'm guilty as charged as a contributor.
I wish I could agree with you here, but I do not think it is true. Everything corporations do is because it is profitable and it would not be profitable if the average people demanded more (as in, better management of resources, less harmful materials etc...). The good thing is, the average person is demanding more so corporations are getting better (well, some of them are and only in some places, but still). The bad thing is, this change is very slow and it will take time for both people to demand more and corporations to adjust. Now, the other thing of this equation is that a lot of the things we want to fight for - like more accessible food for everyone, cheaper housing etc.. - also cost more to do sustainably. So, like everything else in the world, you need to get to some kind of a compromise. But, if we are talking specifically about damage to the earth, it has to bubble up from the people - because corporations are a machinery for making money - and until it hurts them to do it responsibly (because of demand) - they will not do it.
The average person doesn't know to demand more. Corporations lie and control information. It doesn't hurt them because they control the government. And they do that with money. Money they get in nefarious ways because when you have a profit motive in something, something will always be exploited. You see it in every system from healthcare to private prisons. Some things simply don't need to be an industry. But coke could be required to use biodegradable packaging, that's something a regulation could accomplish.
I do not disagree with any of this, I am just saying that the solution needs to be driven bottom up. Let's face it, regulation will only succeed if people elect / demand the right government - so, at the end of the day, it starts with people - and the way to get to people is through education, I guess, which is once again, only going to happen if the right government is in place. So, it's going to be a slog. No other way around it. So, if it were up to me to say, what is one thing we should do to help this going forward, it would be make education affordable for everyone. It is the best way to make the world a better place, long term, in my opinion.
You know the biggest impediment to Tuition Free College in this country? It's something that most don't talk about but it's pretty simple. Our military enrollment would take a SERIOUS hit. The military offers funding for school as one of their main recruiting tools. That is why you will see people fighting against it so vigorously but I agree, we should certainly pay for all of our kids to have that opportunity if they so wish. Trade schools should be an option as well.
Don't drink sodas? What about Jack Daniels and coke? What do you think happens to empty Jack Daniels bottles? Used for target practice in the woods.
At least food and agriculture gets a healthy cut of the pie while only a scant 2/3 goes to the military.
