How do you feel about the current state of the environment? poll

[rodeodance]

How do you feel about the current state of the environment?
No worries
I'm a little concerned
I'm very worried
Total destruction is under way
VIEW RESULTS

[Selatius]

1. No graphical poll? Anyway, I'll say "total destruction"

This planet simply cannot sustain 6,500,000,000 people forever. The ecosystem will collapse under the strain in the end.

[AndyA]

5. Why do you suppose God created gay people? To help protect from

overpopulation. ;)

[Sammy Pepys]

2. I'm a little concerned....

...however I think that overall we're headed in the right direction.

[AllieB]

7. Even with the news that the polar caps melting may not be reversible?

With the artic ice breaking up earlier, polar bears may become extinct.

[etherealtruth]

3. i'm very worried n/t

[Beaverhausen]

4. Very worried - people still don't get it

The destructive effects of global warming are growing exponentially and unless we change our ways soon we are all in big trouble.

Remember all the hurricanes last year? This years tornados? What do you think is causing them? It is the ocean water warming. Don't let anyone tell you it just a "cycle."





edited cause I can't spell!

[mtnsnake]

6. Very worried. nt

[AllieB]

8. Very worried.

:-(

[patrice]

9. I'm very very worried.

[KT2000]

10. Very worried

Corporate science fails the human survival test.

[Chulanowa]

11. I'm very worried

I live on Prince William Sound, I've been here for eight years. When I came here in '98, fishing was booming, snow came in giant piles, weather was predictable... Now the fish are iffy, it rains in the winter, and it has, on occasion, snowed in the summer. It's worse the further north you go. Villages that have been homes long before even the Vikings showed up on the east coat are now being washed out to sea. Walrus are starving and polar bears are drowning. The interior is seeing worse and worse thunderstorms and wildfires.

In eight years, my state has become almost an entirely different place. It terrifies me to think of where we might be in another eight, since every shred of evidence i'v seen points towards exponential increase - simply that the worse it is now, the worse it will be later.

I don't know how many Americans can look out their window and every morning, watch the environment, the weather, the world around them VISIBLY decaying like those of us in Alaska can. And we keep getting devil's deals up here. We want jobs, we want money... So they offer to put oil rigs all over our state. They tell us to sell out our fisheries to the giant companies. They want us to massacre our wolves to the sport hunting industry has lots of of moose to shoot. And when you live in a place where lettuce costs three bucks a head, it's a very real temptation to throw concrete all over, destroy your oceans and wipe out the large land mammals in order to just be able to put food on the table.

I wish more people would look out their windows.