The current focus on our environment centres several key issues.
Climate change. The movie "A Day After Tomorrow" was the most recent powerful signal that we cannot continue affecting our ecological system in such negative ways. Al Gore, the opponent of George Bush Jr in the 2000 elections (and who was Clinton's Vice President) has recently taken a STAND on ecological issues, and has released a powerful documentary on the consequences of climate change. Read more here Scenes from "Day After Tomorrow" as the world's climate SHIFTS abruptly, covering the entire northern hemisphere in snow/ice.
Protection of ancient forests. Forests are the "lungs" of the earth as the provide the oxygen animals need to survive. Complex ecosystems within forests maintain living habitats for thousands of species, that need a balanced ecosystem to survive. Forests hold still untapped resources like medicines, vaccines, etc.
Saving the oceans From maintaining the circulation in the atmosphere (Golfstrom current, etc), to providing humans with high quality protein, all the way through to possessing the greatest natural resources (minerals, etc) that, once "tapped for extraction" will revolutionise Humanity's development.
Stop whaling. The greatest of all mammals. Only 2 SAVAGE nations retain their whaling fleets: Norway and Japan.
Saying "no" to genetic engineering. Greenpeace: "While scientific progress on molecular biology has a great potential to increase our understanding of nature and provide new medical tools, it should not be used as justification to turn the environment into a giant genetic experiment by commercial interests. The biodiversity and environmental integrity of the world's food supply is too important to our survival to be put at risk." Read more here
Stopping the nuclear threat. Nuclear power is in no way "safe", ecological, cheap. From every reactor, tonnes of nuclear waste have to be extracted, shipped for re-processing and then stored for millennia, as the atomic decay progresses with astronomical slowness. The entire nuclear industry is BASED on military developments, and every activity around it has military potential/implications.
Consider: The Chernobyl disaster provided a powerful warning about the dangers: it occurred at 01:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. It is regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. Because there was no containment building, a plume of radioactive fallout drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and eastern North America. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. About 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus, according to official post-Soviet data. According to the 2006 TORCH report, half of the radioactive fallout landed outside the three Soviet republics. The disaster released as much as 300 times more radioactive fallout than the atomic bomb of Hiroshima.[Wikipedia] Read more at Wikipedia What was left of a nuclear reactor...
Eliminating toxic chemicals. Progress in chemical industries means that we are producing ever-more-complex substances, which cannot be destroyed (broken down) within nature. For many chemical companies ILLEGAL DUMPING is a much cheaper solution that the ecological breakdown. Dumping penalties are much smaller than the investments necessary to deal with extremely toxic and long-lived substances.
