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Is going green a wise solution to saving the planet?

Can the planet be ‘saved’ after all? Isn’t it subversive to denounce the pessimistic description of our polluted planet as vastly exaggerated? Give your opinion in a coherent, clear and logical way.
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SteelHands · 61-69, M
The climate of the planet is self stabilizing. The amount of heat the sun gives off isn't perfectly consistent and the ice core samples indicate as much.

Environmental pollution was once a serious problem from heavy industry until after the 1970s when America's government began requiring scrubbers for smokestacks, more responsible handling and containment of industrial waste and a number of other concerns.

The transportation nodes that use gasoline have become regulated and exhaust emissions have been greatly reduced over the last 50 years.

Tax paid upgrade programs giving incentives to make electrical and natural gas consumers more efficient have been deployed with lots of success and energy use devices have improved greatly.

Product life is on the increase. Disposable products and packaging is mostly being recycled to reduce landfills and minimize raw material waste.

When higher efficiency lighting, heating and other appliances arrive in the market they are rapidly sought by the public and industry.

Keeping in mind that anything done to revamp power systems, abodes, companies or government areas will use energy, materials and create more potentially polluting by products, it would be advisable to consider anything else we do as another probable load on the environment.

The term, Green Industries. It's a marketing gimmick, a political trigger word, and doesn't seem to fall under the criteria of anything friendly to the atmosphere, waterways, or soil.

This is my very well considered opinion.