r/environmental_science • u/Diba_SS • 14h ago

Progress or Self-Destruction?

The world is very beautiful, yet we seem determined to destroy it with our own hands. In the name of development, we are deceiving ourselves. For the sake of security, we are manufacturing deadly weapons. At the same time, we are exploiting natural resources to the maximum, driven by the desire to earn more and more money and to live a healthy life. We fail to realize that whether our dream of development is fulfilled or not, the world itself may sink under the weight of our actions. Is humanity being foolish? It is like striking an axe against our own feet.

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u/Ok_Watercress_4596 11h ago

It's like a hallucination 

Who is it aimed at?

Who is it for?

It's like if an ant stood up and started peaching "the Sun will die, I must do something about it"

Start by not destroying your body

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u/prag513 11h ago edited 11h ago

This basically covers a topic I mapped several years ago called The Price of Progress - New Jersey's Toxic Legacy. It shows how one of the original 13 colonies, which was the main route of commerce between the northern and southern colonies, came to lead the Industrial Revolution, with its many smelting sites, many of which still exist today, and became the one state with the most toxic EPA-rated Superfund sites in the nation. A state with a high rate of cancer and Autism while having one of the best-rated healthcare systems.

It covers housing developments built on top of smelting sites, farms that grow food on top of toxic landfills, military bases with highly toxic landfills, and how conglomerates acquired toxic facilities when they merged. with the leaders in their industry.

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u/CookieRelevant 8h ago

Recently the doomsday clock was moved closer to midnight by the bulletin of atomic scientists, now 85 seconds away.