waste not, want not. the american society promotes laziness, i believe this because of telivision addiction as well as the fact that soo many people dont care about the bills and all that whatnot and just manage it as an average piece of meat to feed the dog(major coporations) everyday, the fact that all americans are essentally fat and lazy keeps us from voting, caring about curroption in the global economy. we have the tecknology to end world hunger and our energy problems (genetics engineering anyone?)but that would destroy our oil addiction as well as the companies that make millions in profit for feeding the poor. it would also unbalance the worlds ecosystems.
to be totally honest i believe that everything originates from nothing. i mean if all forces of nature are balanced and equal how could this world we live in be more than a drawn out scale of extremes nullifying one another for eternity? in that sense and the sense that "there is no free lunch" and "everything is connected to everything else" there is no such thing as pollution. there are just environmental factors that we are creating that we are not used to. dont get me wrong, typing away on my computer is a fun way to be lazy, but i use it mostly just to make plans and find ideas for experiments. theres never going to be law that prohibits internal combustion, low emmisions is nice but over the fraction of a second that humans have been around on the grand timescale it has amounted rather quickly in either instance. and we cannot decellerate this until we have literally burned the entire planet or find an alternate source of energy, im not against combutstion at all. just filter the fumes and pump that carbon dioxide and water into a greenhouse. u could even most likely use the goop from the filter as some sort of lube or try reacting it with some compound and invent a new energy cycle for all of us to be the bitches of like ford making the assembly line.
u asked for my opinion and thats my bias. i want to be a geneticist.