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Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel
It doesn't matter how much we cut down. Cutting vehicle emmissions by 5% is meaningless if 20% more cars get on the road. Ultimately, if humans really are having an effect on climate, it's because there are too many of us.
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Collectively, it always matters. It reminds me of the story about the sea turtles. Long story short, thousands of turtles washed up on a beach. A lone old man goes out and starts throwing them back into the sea. Another man sees this and tells the old man to stop wasting his time as it won't make a difference. But the old man wisely retorts, "To those few it makes the world of difference". The government are partly to blame for some attitudes towards being enviromentally freindly. They use it to extort money from us so we then just see anything related to the environment as a way to gain more money from us. Until this changes most people will be reluctant to start caring. Now, I need to hug some trees.
