What can be done to do a better job of protecting the Earth?

Should it be done through education, by creating a Super Clean Agency, by rewarding companies that do a good job with huge tax breaks or by severely punishing companies that continue to violate existing rules and regulations and threaten them with fines and license revocations. Or has all this already been tried? What should we do?|||I agree it has as much to do with the consumers as the companies that make things.


As much as I love trees my house is made of wood, and steel and brick which come from mining and factories





Education and public relations could play an important role, but I would hesitate to create


another bureaucracy, which would cause another lobby to buy off politicians





Some how we need to make it the right way to be, the right thing to do


and maybe the same way we made anti -smoking accepted, which seemed like it happened almost overnight, but people still smoke.





The problem is that we are all to blame and the "real" answers are very tough choices|||We have to become more "accountable" for our actions on all levels





and we have to hold ourselves and everyone at all levels accountable





not just in protecting the earth





Blaming and finger pointing is an empty gesture





We are all accountable.....our "consumer culture" is destroying....


or at least stretching the limits





We provide the markets for these companies





We could debate if they are forced on us or we choose them.....BUT





We provide the market......they would not make, cut, drill, refine, pollute....or employ





if..... WE ....did not buy the product





How do you change an attitude?





How do you make people accountable?........after 5000 years of learning to perfect





how to blame, deflect, spin, and point the finger?





Would the "Super Clean Agency" arrest you for driving to fast?(uses more oil)


or being on your computer too long?(uses more electric)Not cleaning out a dirty container to recycle?...arrest you or me for screaming to repeal the 55MPH limit and demanding SUV's


when we were headed the opposite direction in the 70's...etc,etc,etc...list is endless








What should we do?....take a good hard look at all the reasons WHY?





From the consumer to the biggest polluter





Then be honest, understand, put personal and cooperate agenda aside





and react to all the honest reasons why......with a doable reaction





Consume less , consider the impact, use the most earth friendly, and make with out pollution





and BE ACCOUNTABLE when it goes otherwise