does the environment even matter to us all? humans are growing in numbers every year and more of the environment will be destroyed anyway, so should we really care about it?

At this point, not many people care as much as they realized because financial and other issues overwhelm the environment, until such time when air and water are heavily polluted then people will start panic and practice conservation, the number of smoker have not decreased even though it has no benefit but harm.

The real action will come from product with green concept and generally cost more, until such time when only green concept merchandise become a standard harmful material will cease to exist.

Actually I am not worrying. As I mentioned I myself do think that any incoming destruction won't be in my lifetime or even in many of my downline generations...
but this discussion is just for awareness so that humans now can have the foresight and wisdom to realize how our current actions can affect our future generations.
But I know.... selfishness almost always will rule in the end....until an inevitable blowback occurs.
The sins of the father......

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Added on October 1, 2012, 4:40 amthe reason the need for governments are precisely because of the "don't care attitude" of individuals. Individuals mostly only see within their confines of their views and do not take into consideration that impact of their individual actions on the group/population as a whole or their environment.

But yes the environment does matter to us.

That is why if more humans understand the population problem, hopefully that will impact their decision on the number of children to have.

This post has been edited by diversenature: Oct 1 2012, 04:40 AM