Those are some staggering numbers... See I try to lessen my carbon foot print everywhere I go but with life it's hard... Because buying a pair of shoes adds more to environmental damage than a whole tank of gas.... Also everything one buys at shops adds to that contribution....
We have a problem, a dire one but no one seems to care... Although they will care soon enough, when the oceans run dry, the air becomes harder to breath and when it comes it'll be too late to react.
Honestly I think earth can do without us for a thousand years! Imagine how big the forests will grow 😳 I wish I could live to see that 😂
It's a massive problem for sure and the scenarios (like the shoes/gas thing you mention) are extremely confronting. You also comment on something I believe to be the way forward, that is, no humans. and to be honest I believe it will happen. I mean, how can it not the way we burn through the planet's resources, destroy its fauna and flora and treat it like a garbage bin?
Seeing the numbers, watching the footage on that documentary...confronting and it's difficult to see it as anything but unsustainable.
As you say, we'll be gone...but I think people alive today will, in their lifetimes, begin to see the decline...or should I say suffer the decline. The latter I think.
The thing is there will always be a few humans surviving, always. That's our base instinct right. 😂 But even if everything is can reset.
We are really destroying our planet and take a look at our barbarism throughout the world. Look at how we are behaving towards genders... And the fact that we allow people to believe stupid shit.
Anyways I'm straying off topic.
I've watched a film called The 11th Hour a few years back and that really opened up my eyes. I do want to watch night on earth and I know Netflix has a few ocean documentaries they have tucked away. But every time I find myself drawn to World War 2 documentaries.
What you said about sustainability, it's not impossible for us to go sustainable. Especially with the technology we have.... The industrial age was the mark of a horrible decline in earth's atmosphere but from that better was born. We wouldn't have ever had such amazing green energy production if we didn't find crude oil all those years back. But now we are staying on crude when we can go so much farther. Does this make sense?
Basically what I'm trying to say is that we have the ability to still maintain these lifestyles of ours, we just need change it a little... Start recycling and cleaning more. But people would rather slop up on some McDonald's watching there favorite Netflix show.
Such a shame what we do with potential
Humans seem to have a way of surviving, you're right; and you're right about the population, if 75% of it disappeared overnight tonight the planet would be in a better place the next morning. Maybe 90% would be a better drop.
I commented on another comment on this post about what humans feel comfortable to do to each other, no wonder the plants, animals and planet don't stand a chance. Also, I'm a history guy man, war history is something I spend a lot of time on, among other things of curse. So, I get what you say about WW2 docos.
On sustainability, I don't know man, I'm just not that smart and certainly am not a scientist, I just don't see how our voracious overuse of things, the way we want more and more, could be sustainable in a world that's teetering on the brink as it is. Massive change is needed, I just don't see it being done. A thing here or there sure, but massive change (in better directions), nope. I hope you're right though, and it can be done.
We have the potential to be an amazing species, we just. Goose not to. Greed and hubris are two factors of why.
Time will tell, the next fifty years.