Topic: Solar energy is the future. I want to save my planet!! What about you? - page 3. (Read 888 times)

Solar energy will not save the planet at this point.

Consider a person drowning in a pool.  You redirect the water flow to another more efficient pool.

Will that save his life?  

If humans still want to continue to develop, it is inevitable to consume energy. Although I also think that human damage to resources is already very serious, I don’t want to go back to the primitive society and live in the cave.
Solar energy is indeed a clean energy source, but it is not yet available for large-scale applications. In most parts of the world, people cannot use solar energy efficiently.
If go to other planets colony will be a better choice？

Actually, recently, humans (homo) are around 2.5 million years old, so fuck yeah!


That's how business works; privatize the gains, socialize the losses.

What?

Now I am definitely for renewable energy and solar power, but nothing is perfect.
Oil should be cut out as soon as possible, but this will obviously not happen even though majority of people would surely agree with us.
Money is stronger then democracy, it is those that have money that have biggest votes.

I haven't really read your entire post, I am too lazy for that, but from what I read I see you have a problem with waste of food and etc.
I just want to point out that this is easy to complain about when you imagine the World as one small connected place, but the truth is, World is so big that it is easier to make new food then to transport it, sometimes. And easier means less wasteful, most of the time.

Solar energy isn't perfect, it is better, but it still takes away light from trees, plants and the rest of the ecosystem.
Also we aren't really destroying the planet, this planet went through a lot worse on it's own and all of this carbon we are releasing through burning oil came from the atmosphere in the first place, trapped by plant life that decayed over millions of years into coal and oil.
We are simply changing the planet with a bigger pace then it changed on it's own, which is not that bad for the planet, as it is bad for the creatures on top of the food chain (humans,...). Plants will be just fine when be burn all the oil, we wouldn't, some of our cities would be underwater for start.

So the point here is not that we are hurting the planet as much as we are hurting ourselves with greed.
I don't think anybody will make a rebellion over this, since some small portion of this short term benefit sprinkles over to us.
If we see it though, in another perspective, as big greedy players profiting more over something we all pay for equally, then that is another thing entirely.

You see, we should demand our share, profit from oil companies should be shared equally and directly to every human being on this planet, since all of us are paying for it in the end equally, by living in a less human-hospitable World afterwards.

Now when we all get our share, perhaps then we all equally agree that the profit from it isn't worth it, but the first action would be to take away all the power from oil companies and shut it down for the private sector if the share in the company isn't shared equally along every human in the World.
Individuals simply can't profit for something that we will all suffer in the end equally.

Friends want to share with you a very interesting and at the time frightening information! Please read to the end, and even better let me read it to all my friends.

People live on earth according to the calculations of only 200 thousand years and all until the 19th century was moving on until humanity found oil and gas. Over the next two centuries, and to be precise over the past 50 years, we have so destroyed the balance of nature that even scary to imagine it.
Over the past 100 years, the population of the planet has increased more than 3 times. Today, 15% of the population consumes 85% of the earth's natural resources.
Agriculture today produces twice as much food than is necessary to feed the entire population of the planet, but the world is still hungry whiter than 2 billion people.
Trees-the main source of oxygen on the earth give way to cattle farms and farms, and on the cut down and dried-up sites waste grounds are formed. Every year more than 13 million hectares of forest disappear from the face of the earth. 60% of grain goes to feed livestock and poultry, which are subsequently slaughtered and go to the shelves in the form of meat, which is not eaten in half of the cases.
Cotton production exceeds the demand of the entire population of the planet and exists through subsidies in developed countries and slave labor with the rest of the world. Most of Africa and Asia work in slave labour to feed themselves and their children.
To grow flowers requires a huge amount of energy, pesticides and fertilizers.  80% of the grown flowers are in the garbage! For what?
The modern trade world requires drainage of rivers, deforestation and environmental pollution. More than 90% of scientific discoveries serve war and trade. Physically, the best minds on the planet are busy destroying nature and it's scary!
The modern world of consumption has become a cancer of the planet and according to experts by 2030, due to global warming, the polar cap of Antarctica may completely disappear. It has declined by 40% in the last 40 years alone.
Every year, lake Baikal (the largest and cleanest lake of fresh water) discharges more than 35 million cubic meters of wastewater per year. At present, the air on the peaks of the Himalayan range is as polluted as in our cities. The state of our planet can be told endlessly, but no one thinks about it.
What can we do to preserve the beauty of our home and preserve our planet???
You think it's too late, but I'm sure it isn't!! Together, we can rebuild our home and start over. Today there are already examples of progress for the better, for example:
- The state took under its protection 2% of land worldwide is not much, but it's good.
- the number of reserves has increased;
- New Yorkers have realized the scale of nature and now forests and trees supply them with drinking water.
- In South Korea, almost all forests were destroyed during the war, but today there is an active restoration and forests occupy 60% of the country's territory.
- Costa Rica has made a choice in favor of resources and almost completely abandoned the army spending the money on the restoration of nature.
- Gabon - leading production forests, but the forests are not depleted because cut down only 1 tree with 1 hectare.
In Freiburg-built a neighborhood that is completely innovative and does not harm nature. Life there is carried out with the help of solar panels.
- Many States consider the development of renewable energy sources as a priority.
- In Denmark, they built a power plant running on coal and emitting carbon dioxide into the soil, and on the coast in Denmark there are wind farms producing 20% of the country's electricity!!!  Iceland has a power plant that converts the internal heat of the earth into electrical energy.

- In the deserts began to convert solar energy into electricity and it's great, because for 1 hour the sun gives energy to the Earth in such an amount as we consume for the whole year!!!

All we have to do is stop drilling the earth and learn how to process solar energy, let's rebuild our planet together. What ways do you see to restore our planet?