Thanks a lot! this will help me and my friends in our group project!

This still don’t tell me which industries make the most pollution

All of you signaling overpopulation are dangerous alarmists. The ancient Greeks thought the earth was over populated. The human population has grown exponentially since then and there is still room. Views of overpopulation have lead to forced sterilization and genocide in the past so be careful what you wish for. Instead of victim blaming the poor and uneducated, let’s remember their are simple solutions to most environmental problems but the problem is profit. Corporations will change only when they are forced to. These mega polluters must be held accountable. Once we tax in all the cost of downstream affects, polluting becomes unprofitable and solutions become more valuable. We can harness the markets to solve our problems. This will raise prices and hurt the poor so the proceeds of these pollution taxes should be funneled back to those at the economic bottom.

Recently there is a lot of unrest amongst people regarding climate change and global warming until Corona Virus appeared and decided to do some cleaning of the environment while we are locked in our homes. Bottom line to any discussion on Environment is POPULATION. All the younger people including kids should start with “What can I do to help the Environment?” and not leave the schools and protest. You can think of “Should I get married and produce children in the overcrowded planet?”, “Is one meal enough to survive instead of three for my energy requirements?”, “Can I give up Junk food and beef and alcohol and smoking and drugs?”, “Can I use less energy?” and there is so much more creative actions that we can take and make a difference. Like John Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”, we should be bringing those words in practice.

Of course we should all try to minimise our carbon footprint with the caveat “as far as is reasonably practical”. Here are some thoughts:
1. Fossil fuels are a finite resource, we should reduce using them for fuel wherever possible, not just to reduce emissions, but also because we need them to make plastic. (I can hear the uproar already), but consider, without plastic for insulation no electricity, without plastic – no computers, cars,
televisions, radios, aircraft, bicycles, push chairs, mobile phones. The list is endless, and even includes many energy saving devices like wind turbines and solar panels. Much of the problem is not what we make, but what we do with it.
2. All of life on earth contributes to greenhouse gasses. It is naive to think that livestock being removed is going to solve the problem. There is a complete ecosystem out there, we mess with it at our peril. Our farming practices are part of that ecosystem. If we get rid of all livestock we will have to produce millions of tons of artificial fertilisers or in a very few years our soil will be so depleted that crops will begin to fail. The upshot of this is more forest will be destroyed to grow the food we need, and at some point some developing nations may well even decide to rid the planet of wildebeest, caribou etc. to grow more crops.
3. The solutions are simple. Avoid Brazilian, coffee and beef, Chinese electronic gubbins. Also seek out producers who are the biggest polluters and boycott their products. Finally accept that the only long term solution is to reduce the human population. The only human right is the right to life. Once we have this right the rest is up to each of us. No one has the right to have more children than either they or the planet can afford to sustain. There are just too many of us.

I join in with the dive clean up every year. The most trash we pickup in the ocean is plastic.

I been trying to change my life completely, firstly I started from food intake, and now I’m working on no plastic in my house, maybe industrial companies should start looking into using glass and paper bags all the micro fibre plastics and use the great stuff we have naturally to make/ sustainable materials for clothes and everything else we can do it , before plastic was invented we used all organic and sustainability in everything.

I’m not disagreeing with your conclusions. However, I know there are studies about drastic climate change in the not so distant past. E.g: in the 1700’s for a period of about 10 plus years, , the UK had a run of great growing weather. It played a large part in creating wealth, health and had a role in bringing goods to market; hence the beginnings of the industrial revolution. And many centuries prior to that the Sahara desert moved its boundaries – N or S I can’t say, As far as I know there have been major changes in climate (the end of the ice age) for one and over centuries without comets or intruders from space. I’m not disagreeing that the human factor is playing a major role today; but, why is there so little study about previous changes excluding humans. I think a study of past change might help to understand what is happening today and even help to find workable solutions: that is between what is our responsibility and what is what might be called natural. There is a subtle arrogance among humans that we are responsible for everything. Not so. The earth and its climate changed many times after it came into what be called the current area, but without humans to cause it. Surely a study of those periods might shed some light on what we face today.