Really quite depressing

[mrbeast1414]

So I went to this S.O.S at my school today (SAve the Seas) and it really was quite depressing. Despite all the good people are trying to do around the world, it just can't quite stop the other 99% of the population who do nothing! Pollution and overfishing are bad by themselves with a few people but multiply that by billions of people???

Really an eye opener.

Both of the experts there live in Monterey, California region and their passion for the enviroment came from, yes you guessed it , scuba!!

But if there aren't radical changes soon in the lifestyles of human beings, there my not be an ocean worth diving in....

 

[CuNanoTube]

True that. You must remember though: "It is all about the money"
As depressing as it is it costs a lot to be environmentally friendly, and if a country has to choose between feeding starving people (or pocketing the cash in many 3rd world nations) or cleaning their sewage before discharge what do you think they will go with.

Even in lake Ontario it is a problem. American pollution regulations are much more lax causing manufacturing plants on the American side to fowl up the Canadian side as well.

So unless every person in the world puts something other than themselves first no change will occur. Or we could install green peace dictators.

 

[smellzlikefish]

"American pollution regulations...Americans fowling up the Canadian side..." from a poster in Ontario.

I think I see where this is going.

 

[makochum]

Or lax regulations in any part of the world for that matter. Just because they are dumping that crap in China or N Korea doesn't mean it isn't happening. We as a species have an "out of sight, out of mind" attitude.

 

[smellzlikefish]

As much as I agree with makochum, it is easy to pawn the blame off onto the "other people." Americans/westerners aren't known for many of the shark finning/whaling/other issues that other cultures are, but we have an equal amount of blame in other areas. The eco movement is gaining steam, and hopefully it spreads, but we have a long way to go before we start pointing fingers elsewhere.