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Originally Posted by Snestorm
This on is the key. When this problem is solved, voluntarily or involuntarily, everything else will begin the long and slow process of self-repair.
The earth was here long before man, man's technology and science, and it will be here long after man's extinction.
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The second point - too excessive consummation of ressources, too excessive living standards in the West - also is key. Even if you delete all mankind outside Europe and North America, we still would be in a mess, in the long-term. We consume too much, and by that effect the environment more seriously than it could compensate for within timeframes that are of interest for human fate. The Western imgination of "living style" is totally unsuited to serve as a global model.