Are we ruining the Earth because we need more and more places to live? [I Am Concerned About Climate Change]

We cannot keep clearing forests! How will new oxygen be received into the air? We need the trees to help the oceans, the grasslands, ever diminishing, to produce oxygen for all the fauna of the Earth 🌎 to breathe! We cannot steal all the room on land and push the animals to their extinction! We must find a way to contain how we fill the Earth to safeguard the wonder of the Creation!

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Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F

No. That's not why. We have the old places, and we need to use the cities. Here, Amazon is involved in construction, whole neighborhoods, and these giant two hulled trucks are dumping Canadian shale from the oil project at a gargantuan scale.
In the actual Amazon, bull dozers clear the forest. Not for condos.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Stopmakingsense Um here in Canada the stuff we extract oil from is sand not shale and when we are done with it the sand is returned and the area reclaimed. You wouldn't believe how beautiful the old mine sites are. Home to deer and moose and bison and.... We aren't making a mess we are cleaning up natures biggest oil spill since the oil is seeping out of the ground and contaminating the rivers and lakes. The old times joke about setting fire to the river there was so much oil floating on the surface it would burn.

Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F

@hippyjoe1955 something is generating granulated earth at a magnificent rate. Maybe you're productivity of this grey rocky dust comes from elsewhere, and it's all good. Nothing to see there! Miles of heavy stuff naturally needs moved by double hulled trucks all the time, like day and night for years in tiny towns with nothing going on. Right? Everything is beautiful and only I can feel the rumble of the trucks 24/7.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Stopmakingsense Yes the sand is removed in some mines. The oil is extracted and the sand is replaced. What else would you do with it? Too much to just leave lying there. However it is then reclaimed and the area is returned to its natural state. You should see the reclaimed areas. They are thriving with wildlife native to the area. Incredible. However there are more than one way to clean up the oil. They also extract it using steam and gravity. Nothing is disturbed and the area remains in its native state. Wolves, bear, deer, moose bison etc etc etc. You have been drinking the leftist doom and gloom koolaid for too long. You should come visit the area. You would have your eyes opened.

Stopmakingsense · 56-60, F

@hippyjoe1955 you should see the effect on the water table. You should see the effect on my area.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Stopmakingsense Not where Canada is removing oil from sand. In some of the reclaimed mines there are stocked fishing ponds.