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Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can’t spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
We’re in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.
Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.