Look. I took an environmental class in the 80's and learned about what needed to be done back then and it's only gotten thousand times worse. And now we have an 'environmental' *cough cough* president pushing the TPP.

Let's face it. If you care about people, don't have kids. They will just suffer as the world dies. I feel really bad for my niece and nephews who are 10-11 now. They are going to see all this happen. It's not going to be pretty. So sad. Those poor innocent creatures' and our beautiful planet's demise caused by greedy assholes.

Republicans are for not believing in Climate Change, yet they promote the same damn policies that destroy the environment!

Do they all think that the Climate Change situation is like Tinkerbelle - as long as we clap our hands and say we believe, it will all get better?

What good does believing the science & our own eyes do, if we as a party, as a people, do nothing to CHANGE our ways which are killing sustainable life on earth?

Just look at the world's geopolitics right now. It's almost inevitable.

I agree but not for the same reason. I think we need to radically cut the world's population to maybe about 10 percent of what it is now. We are all complicit in this. it's not just the rich assholes and developers' fault. We want all the services, development, and modernization. We the common people don't think any farther than the ends of our noses. Every new person coming into the world creates a carbon footprint, large or small, but nonetheless creates one where the world cannot stand it anymore. If people everywhere all over the world don't voluntarily stop having babies then we'll have to force them to stop, or die in a paved over, lifeless ball of human shit that the world will become.

Population control is a tough issue to discuss though.

Many people still believe they have the right to unfettered reproduction, and that belief is quite often reinforced by antiquated government policies that encourage population growth, in the form of tax deductions and direct government assistance payments for children. (i.e. USA, Canada, Australia)
Those programs simply need to be eliminated in a phased out approach, if we truly desire to achieve population reduction. There also needs to be an serious effort in the developing countries toward family planning and sex education.

to have to live on the planet that they will be inheriting.

Some of our problems are not about greed IMO but about idiocy. We should have immediately gone to work on the problem in 1988 when James Hansen gave his testimony before Congress. Perhaps it would not have been too late to stop it.

I suspect that we will have a carbon neutral world by 2100. But by then it will be too late.

we'd be so much better off.

It's combo of greed and idiocy. If money didn't control our politics we wouldn't be giving oil companies the breaks we do and would have done so much more to kick start alternative energy.

As in, humans need to stop breeding and polluting the planet while crowding out every other species.

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No shit. We can't have a reasonable discussion on this little board. And then you have an entire party in a major nation that wants to do away with women's birth control. The stupidity is stunning.

the fossil fuel giants, literally keep pouring gas on the raging fire.

It is coming down to a very simple choice - predatory capitalism or the survival of the human species.

I wish I could say I was optimistic, but the vultures' talons are too deeply into everything. Unchecked capitalism corrupts everything it touches.

the way we treated everyone else

Of the last five were man made? How many were not at a frightening rate? Just sayin.

Just add shareholders and some good old MBA magic.

At the end of the day they have spent themselves on devising new ways to cut costs, new ways to extract profit from unsuspecting customers, new ways to skirt environmental laws.

They have helped move jobs overseas, to increase the amount of children forced to work in slave labor, to enrich themselves at the cost of the forests & oceans.

They have a huge, horrible impact on the world and they and the drones which hover around them tell them money for the sake of money is all that matters. That this world is a giant oyster which they will greedily gobble up as much as they can never considering the cost. Never giving a second thought to expending massive amounts of the limited time they have on this ever shrinking and sickly planet to ensuring the corporation is healthy and will continue, unabated, suckling the marrow from the bones of our future families.