Yes!

talking big emotional empty words is not "trying your best" at anything. Its talking big emotional empty words. Nothing else.

Apparently, it's impossible for Alpha to comprehend, that more people get involved in these efforts, the better. I really don't understand the individuals like she. It must be hatred; they just have to hate.

Absolutely!

Protesting is throwing a hissy fit... Flying back on a jet after protesting emissions is not action. Riding on Electric trains powered by the coal plants in Germany is not action.

Action is something that actually makes a difference. The hero of the story above is making a difference by action. Greta is not doing anything.

It seems that it's humanely impossible to motivate some people, especially those who criticize others while doing nothing themselves.

No, she is a mentally ill highschool dropout child who yells at world leaders. She's neither a scientist nor economist yet tells everyone else how it's done. F**k Greta and f**k her enablers.

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Spending my time making myself better before being a hypocrite and calling out countries that are actually reducing emissions instead of the countries that arent. Just sayin....

Michael Jastrzebski, Full Name, AlphaPug, let's hear what actions you took??? Show us or shut up. I would like to understand your mentality.

Global warming isn't a "in 100 years" issue. The Earth is, on average, already almost 1 degree warmer. This is already killing rivers and humans and wildlife right now. The wildfires in Australia was predicted as a consequence of global warming, for example. Not just individual animals, but whole species have *already* gone extinct as a result of global warming.

Not even close. Pollution is killing rivers and humans and wildlife right now. Right here. This isn't some "in 100 years it'll be 2 degrees warmer", this is already here, right now. Clearly you've never been to a severely polluted place.

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The first mammal species known to have gone extinct due to climate change: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/06/first-mammal-extinct-climate-change-bramble-cay-melomys/

They collect and recycle everything they can... and maybe the landfill is better than polluting the rivers and oceans. Yes, avoiding single use plastics should be a priority, but all this current garbage still needs to be cleaned up.

@K.K: ground water seepage, exponential increasing amount of land needed, and additional pollution if incinerating large quantities of trash. There are a lot of problems with landfills. It all ties back to packaging and usage. Stop buying a new car every two years. Stop individual packaging. Stop letting companies push the blame to consumers and not doing anything about it themselves. Why is cereal sold in a box that's in a plastic bag. Put the artwork on the bag and don't make the box.

@K.K: I believe they are instric problems of all landfills. All landfills pose an instrict risk of additional groundwater and other pollution, every increasing size and other issues. What they may do to mitigate this risk is up to them and after those risk are reduced, if at all, you are left with residual risk which can not be prevented. Also, just to point out, most recycling plants are owned by landfills. So recycling stops once it's more cost effective to dump the remaining items in a landfill.

@B.B: Those are not intrinsic problems with landfills. Just problems with some poorly-constructed ones.

And what's wrong with landfills??

You should be nicer and, most of all, you should add something to the discussion. Calling someone an idiot because you don't agree with them is, well, a little stupid. 😉 That said, the article shared by Kimberly Herbert doesn't actually say what she claims. But there are others, like https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/ocean-cleanup-project-could-destroy-neuston/580693/, that do. Now, can we all take this new information in without calling each other idiots? It's still possible to admire the guy and his project without closing your eyes to any negative effects it might have.

Full Name, how did you arrived to your conclusion; aren't you too quick to call someone f-----g idiot? I don't know, it seems that you do, please share it here.