Question

Why do we need to preserve the earth and protect the environment

Answer 1

Answer:

It is critical to protect the environment so as to reduce the destruction of eco-systems caused by a myriad of anthropogenic activities. It is more of a moral obligation for humans to protect the environment from pollution and other activities that lead to environmental degradation.

Answer 2

Answer:

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Well, selfishly, because we are alive thanks to what our planet provide, so it’s a matter of survival of the human specie to protect its ecosystem.

Also, less selfishly, because we are not alone on Earth, we came in the last seconds of the “hour of life” there, and yet, we are taking everything for ourselves, lands and sea altogether. We love to debate about genocide among ourselves, and yet, genocided already countless thousands of animal species out of both inefficient economic organization centered on greed and huge lack of ethnics.

And yet, it’s not like we do not know. We do to our planet, its animal and vegetal reign what we would not do in our own home, our pets, and our domestic plants. Pillaging everything and dirtying everything else, betoning everywhere and releasing garbage everywhere else, it is amazing how the self-declared most intelligent specie of the planet is also the most demented and self-destructive : purely amazing.

It’s not like we are unaware of what’s going on : the destruction of our ecosystem, the climate change, and their consequences are both mainstream knowledge and matters on which we can act on, individually and collectively. But most of us just don’t think that it will affect us in our lifetime, that technology will save us in the future while it ruined so much already in the past, and some of us say nothing is happening. Meanwhile, we vote for inept politicians who are as incompetent and reckless about environmental issues than they are on societal ones.

We need to change our habits massively, both individually and collectively, to have more modest and efficient lifestyles and economic policies, and save what can still be saved today, and might not be in a few decades or even a few years : the future of our planet as we and our parents knew it once, and probably mankind, which might collapse in the centuries to come if we continue with that absurd programmed waste of all the resources of the planet for the instant profit of a minority of People.

If we don’t succeed in that challenge, well, we will end-up genociding ourselves, not for God, King, or Country, but simply because we won’t have enough anymore to harvest, and we will hence have to trim our numbers through genocidal policies. Actually, not we : our children, most probably.

Nice parenting, definitively.

Then, next question : if an alien race came to Earth and had to designate the most toxic species of our endangered planet in order to save it like a doctor would hunt viruses and parasites into his patient, what specie would be designated as the plague and earn the elimination lottery ? Even without the desire to colonize Earth, I guess E.T choice would be quite easy, and the answer quite obvious.