Sorry about that, I mistakenly posted the last post and it's a bitch to change things on LiveJournal especially if you're running under Tor.

Where was I?

Awareness:
I sat in at a Literature class in a local college recently and found out something rather interesting. The students are actually AWARE of what is happening. The class was reading the Climate Crisis speech by Al Gore and a couple of other related articles by Faulkner, Hemmingway, and others. The students were asked to come up in front of the class and argue what was more of an issue today: the Climate Crisis or warfare (as described by Faulkner). Most, if not all, student agreed that it was the Climate Crisis and cited numerous examples as to why.
First of all, people were more likely to commit a "suicide" through this matter and kill the planet to keep their comforts rather than kill each other. Sure we have Hydrogen Bombs, Atom Bombs, and all kinds of nuclear weaponry but the use of such weaponry is not beneficial to anyone. It destroys the soil, it kills people, and it will cause a public outrage. Not to mention when one country uses the weapon, all will follow and the results would be devastating. Treaties are being formed to limit such weaponry. I'm sure it will always pose a problem but that's not the point.
People, as the students mentioned, are more likely to exhaust their natural resources, cut down trees, release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere to have what they want. One student mentioned that we are slaves to the corporations and government and cited today's trends as an example. Everyone wants an iPod, right? Everyone wants a cellphone, everyone wants to eat McDonald's food, or whatever else the commercials today tell us. And they want it cheaply. The commercials, even though they may not sway us to buy the product, will make us aware of it and thus more likely to buy that product or a similar one. And THAT was the point. We are killing our planet to have a few nice toys that we don't even know how to use nor will ever use.
So we are aware we are killing our planet, destroying our resources, and we know where it stems from. Our production, our comforts (such as car usage), and our greed (the want for cheaper prices). The Greed translates to the whole problem with money in the first place.

Knowledge:
We know exactly what we're doing and how we're doing it. More people today know that carbon dioxide and miscellaneous other emissions from cars harm the environment. They also know that the use of chemicals such as pesticides, steroids and such are killing our plants and animals. Most people know that cutting down the Amazon is a big mistake.
Look at today's world. People KNOW these things. We KNOW what's happening. And we KNOW we need to stop it.

Action:
Here's where the action comes in. There is none. People know that cars are harming the atmosphere, yet they still drive them even more than before now that gas has dropped substantially. We know electric cars are more environmentally safe, yet no one wants them yet. We've had the technology for decades, but no one uses it. We know that eating cheap chemical-filled food is not only harmful to us but its demand causes its production. Simple economics. We know that building Wind and Solar energy plants will save us a ton of money and will help us out, but no one will do that.


Students today are aware of the problem, they know the cause of the problem and the solution (the simple and hardest one), but no one takes action.
To be honest, not even I take action. I eat organic food, sure, but I use my car when I could walk.