Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
To be clear, we caused these things because of ignorance of the consequences of our actions... a lack of understanding of the forces involved, the scope of our impact, and an assumption that the planet would sweep the mess away somewhere and fix itself faster than we could mess it up. We now have clear evidence that this is not the case, the planet cannot keep up with our impact on it.
Absolutely. The days of expecting the Earth or our kids to clean up our messes must end. We need to take direct responsibility for taking care of this planet, and we need to start three decades ago.
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