Is our planet is doomed?

[Autumnlicious]

What are the causes of these aforementioned problems? We can't constructively problem solve unless we can pinpoint the causes.

Why is there a pollution crisis?
Who thought up this global monetary and economic policy?

Name the problem, and then consider solutions. But we have to be clear about the issue at hand, like what I was (trying) to say about the Pharma/Medical industry. Constructive problem solving, clear causal thinking...

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-Pip

Amazingly, that is exactly what those damned evil climatologists working on proving anthropogenic climate change should be supported, as they are attempting to model the effect humans have on the world and subsequently identify those causal factors. AGW is merely a part of the GW equation, but it is the part we can directly observe and easily change due to it being part of a human infrastructure.

Both the pollution crisis, as you term it, and global monetary and economic policy are due to groups of people working together to increase some aspect favorable to them unfairly with or without consideration of the consequences. But many people who aspire to have the same form of unfair advantage and instead turn a blind eye or give such bad behavior a free pass. Similar to the irony of the American middle class voting down increased taxes for the wealthy (top 1%) because, as a cultural anthropologist discussed, they (the middle class individuals) have a belief, almost a delusion, that they will shortly make that top 1% somehow and then be harmed by it. The American dream to delusional extreme.

I do agree with you, Pippy, that there is a problem. But what you attempt to identify problems, you identify the parts, while ignoring the whole. The whole lies hidden in a field of delusion, unfair advantage, consumerism, and a multitude of base human emotions masquerading as a reason to do something, usually for the worse. I guess the human condition, for now and on a broad scale, is working for the worse instead of straining for the better, as I can only see forms of increased instability in the world fueled by the sensationalistic media and friends.