Polution will always exist, it is a naturaul part of the earth itself. It is the man made polution that is the real problem. That is the polution we can control.
Hmm, what is worse or more polution, me burning a little wood for heat, or leaving a woods full of trees burning hundreds or thousands of acres in a forest fire?
The wood and polution of a forrest fire would heat many homes for a long period of time. With a naturaul forrest fire the earth is poluting itself.
Leaving dead fallen trees rot away out in my woods the earth is again poluting itself, same with rotting leaves. Decaying matter produces methane and other polutants. Although it is a cycle and the compost or mulch is good for things also, still polution exists in a woods controlled only by the earth itself.
So I harvest the earths polution and use it to heat my home.
Famous question, "Does a bear $#|+ in the woods". Well of course it does, so there is more naturaul polution.
So to end polution the answer is simple, kill all plants, burn all forests, nuke ourselfs, and of course fish go potty in the water so poision all water fresh and salted. When all life is gone perhaps the polution will end and the Earth will be saved. Ooops, that won't work, what about space polution from meteors hitting the earth?
If a Tree falls in the woods and no-one is there to burn it, does it still pollute?
YES!
So really we can never totally end polution or even stop poluting the earth ourself, it is part of the cycle of life. All we can do is try to do the least damage posible while having a nice happy life. That is where the problem actually is though, to many people just don't care and are too lazy. Too much trouble to walk across the room and turn on the fan or window airconditionare, they now have remote controls! Anything with a remote control uses power waiting to see if you press a button on the remote, batteries for remotes are polution been made and being thrown away.
I know people who actually drive the kid 3 blocks to the park so they can play. Now how stupid and lazy is that?? Drive the kid 3 blocks so they can run around, play ball, and other stuff much more stressfull than walking 3 blocks. Drive them to the park, drive back to get them later. Several times a week, how much wasted gas and polution is that! And they probably let the car warm up several minutes before driving each trip too.
People in general have become lazy and it shows in the work place, land fills, and the polution they create. Much better to buy alot of throw away cigarette lighters and fill the dumps with them instead of buying 1 refillable lighter and using it for years with one can of feul! Not better, just lazier!
I use a refillable lighter for starting up my wood burner kindling even.
I have friends that like some of the things I have made, I offer to show them how to make stuff themselfs, fun hobby and sellable too (they could use the money), but no they are too exhausted from sitting on their butts and pressing a button at work for 8 hours a day to do anything but eat and watch TV and create non-productive polution. They'd be happy if I give them one I make (even offered to buy them), but too lazy to make one themselfs with my help and my tools for free.
Rather it's leather work, pewter casting, electroplating, pinback buttons, other stuff, it does not matter. People want the stuff free or even buy it, but too lazy to do anything themselfs. This is the same reason the world is so poluted, it's easy to be lazy and just create polution for no real reason.
So in reality, even when some polution is created somewhere using RE it will neither end the world our having created it, nor will what we do not create actually save the world. We simply do as little damage as posible ourselfs while the lazy butts do as much as they can and gripe about the problems they caused and prices they pay in dollars for doing so. Then we all suffer when we pay high taxes or prices on products because of the cost of cleaning up lazy butt polution.
