1930's? People forget that the worst ecological disaster in America was caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought in Oklahoma, Texas and surrounding areas. roughly 600,000 farmers depleted the topsoil in the midwest, exposing less healthy soil, which dried out, and when the wind picked it up, it caused a static electric build-up, which in turn brought up more dust, blacking out the sky off and on for years all the way to the East Coast.
That was just farming. Today we have Deforestation on a larger scale world-wide, CO2 being pumped out at huge rates, etc, etc, you've heard the news. Of course there will be the people who's only news source is Fox News and somehow deny human involvement because of some notes from a few rogue scientists that were blown out of proportion and will claim those are proof against man's involvement.
Yet nobody denies our involvement in the dust bowl - so if that small period of farming from the 1850's to 1930's could cause a Country-wide calamity, how is 100 years of polluting, deforesting, oil drilling, and suburban sprawling not doing at least SOME damage to the environment?
That was just farming. Today we have Deforestation on a larger scale world-wide, CO2 being pumped out at huge rates, etc, etc, you've heard the news. Of course there will be the people who's only news source is Fox News and somehow deny human involvement because of some notes from a few rogue scientists that were blown out of proportion and will claim those are proof against man's involvement.
Yet nobody denies our involvement in the dust bowl - so if that small period of farming from the 1850's to 1930's could cause a Country-wide calamity, how is 100 years of polluting, deforesting, oil drilling, and suburban sprawling not doing at least SOME damage to the environment?