Zitat des Tages über Umweltprobleme / Environmental Problems:
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.