Comments on: Environmental Degradation and the Self: The Link between the Two https://planetsave.com/articles/environmental-degradation-and-the-self-the-link-between-the-two/ Science, Animals, Planet Earth, & More Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Alanna https://planetsave.com/articles/environmental-degradation-and-the-self-the-link-between-the-two/#comment-1484 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:03:07 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2608#comment-1484 individual ecosystems have a carrying capacity- as does the world as a whole- People think they can remove themselves from the rhythms and connections of the environment, but those connections simply occur in a different fashion than they did when we were cavemen (and cavewomen). The fact that people used to die at age 30 acted as a natural population control so as to not overload the earth with living beings. Yes our standard of living has increased dramatically as well as our lifespan-but is it truly for the better? One day there will be 6billion people that have no clean drinking water- no food- and perhaps no adequate shelter- all but the most extremely wealthy who’d been able to hoard supplies while the rest of us wallow in our own self-inflicted hell.
The problem with wanting is that to acquire that inanimate thing that we want imposes more environmental harms than most are aware. Even if you walk to the store- carbon was still emitted likely during the production of that item, during it’s transportation and during it’s storage (a a minimum- electricity).
People don’t realize where our food comes from – how it gets to the grocery store shelves and what it takes to have a tomato there 12 months out of the year.
One day humankinds karma will kick it in the but and we’ll be out in the cold (figure of speech, corrected: out in the heat) without all of our “luxuries”.

]]> By: Zachary Shahan https://planetsave.com/articles/environmental-degradation-and-the-self-the-link-between-the-two/#comment-1483 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:45:59 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2608#comment-1483 Well, my friend, we may be making different points here.

And, in due time, we will all experience the results of our actions and the fruits of our wants.

And we are experiencing them even today.

But if we are blind to them, what can a few small words do to show us that a “richer world” is the same world it was 1000 years ago, just reorganized.

And who were you 1000 years ago, and what have you gained in that time?

It is a matter of different levels of thinking, my friend, and i think we are not thinking on the same level.

Yes, let us improve the world around us, let us improve our situation, but let us first understand what it means to have an improved life.

]]> By: Patrick https://planetsave.com/articles/environmental-degradation-and-the-self-the-link-between-the-two/#comment-1482 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:06:11 +0000 http://planetsave.com/?p=2608#comment-1482 Wanting more than we need is the reason we’re still not living in caves, wallowing in our own shit and dying at 30 from disease, malnurishment and

If you only make as much as you need, you have nothing left over to give and trade with other people.

Wealth is not finite. The world gets wealthier every year on average.

The average human being now is a hundred times richer than the richest man 1000 years ago.

Time to do some real thinking genius.

You can want more than you need and not harm anyone, in fact, it can lead you to invent and produce and create wonderful things, and its those people who make life a wonderful place and not a meek dystopia where we only seek to sustain ourselves and nothing else.

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