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SomeMichGuy · M
One has to consider the differences in
1) total number of people;
2) level of technology;
3) number of businesses, industries, etc.,
in any of the areas creating problems, whether it is as simple as amount of garbage generated, amount of stuff emitted into the air or water or onto the land which shouldn't be, etc.
If there were one small family in North America, Nature could deal with its garbage, emissions, etc., at even our current level of technology.
That simply isn't the case.
People tend to be bad at understanding how billions of people, each doing a little, can really HELP _or_ HURT the planet. The 1970s PSAs to "give a hoot, don't pollute" helped to make enough people enough mindful of this that you don't see as much random garbage in parks, etc.
Easy to reverse if people just stop caring or don't take stewardship of the glorious Creation we are blessed to be set in seriously.
1) total number of people;
2) level of technology;
3) number of businesses, industries, etc.,
in any of the areas creating problems, whether it is as simple as amount of garbage generated, amount of stuff emitted into the air or water or onto the land which shouldn't be, etc.
If there were one small family in North America, Nature could deal with its garbage, emissions, etc., at even our current level of technology.
That simply isn't the case.
People tend to be bad at understanding how billions of people, each doing a little, can really HELP _or_ HURT the planet. The 1970s PSAs to "give a hoot, don't pollute" helped to make enough people enough mindful of this that you don't see as much random garbage in parks, etc.
Easy to reverse if people just stop caring or don't take stewardship of the glorious Creation we are blessed to be set in seriously.