Environmental sustainability & public health are more important than short-time profit

Its very hard to start, as there are many points. So I"ll start with the impact of agriculture on the environments. I don"t mean the ecoagriculture, but the more common large-scale corporate agriculture, that is appearing all over the world. This economisation of the farming has also lead to mass extinction of local farmers, due to hard concurrence of large farmers. Its also leading to large-scale fertilisation of areas (that has a negative effect on all local environments). I"ve done some research for math a few years ago and while testing the composition of a small stream near a farm, I found out that the levels of fertilisation substances were high. This aquatic pollution is very common in industrialised countries and is able to poison the environment or cause dangerous spreads of algae, that after death leave behind CO2 and take the O2 from water, killing almost all aquatic fauna. However the other way to use an area for agriculture is to move to other areas when the soil gets infertile, this approach is yet worse, because you"re constantly destroying environmental areas and leaving behind an very bad Pedospheric condition, making an rehabilitation of the nature a lot harder. Not only this, large plantations that are growing in very sensitive areas are really hurting the biodiversity, due to the support of only a single culture of plants. Deforestation is actually happening, but not only because of agriculture *. Irrigation is a modern and ancient technique, that is proven to be effective, however it has a major minus. Its causing increasing soil salinity, that makes an soil very infertile, its also one of the many reasons why the Mesopotamians collapsed. Plus it can destroy the aquatic environments, large rivers and streams in Spain got drought-out. And in South-Spain many ecologist are still and were warning about the possibility of infertile and salty soil future, following a end to agriculture and making it nearly impossible for environments to stabilise back. Large industries in farming are also showing off a negative effect on bees (all bees, wild and domesticated). But we can also see the brutal and concentrated meat-production (US is the worst here) where animals might not even see the sun. Its also leading to dangerous merits with the chemistry and Genetic engineering and no-labeling policies. We are also observing E. coli and salmonella in modern farming. Basically, bacteria is getting immune to our antibiotics, as it adapts to its new environment. It really bad , because one day we wont be able to get rid of the b"s with antibiotics. The solution to this is simply: Ecoagriculture. But everything is going to be injured by our terrible influence to our environments. We"re releasing large amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, causing increased climate changes, CO2 reacts with H20 into H2CO3 that"s poisoning our seas. We"re destroying forests and areas that are really needed for nature to make its typical cycles, we are also causing the creation of Global Warming, by speeding up the natural feedback's that can be dangerous. The climate has changed often in its past and it has made a lot of good and bad, however there is more than enough evidence that were causing this climate change. It"s as well influenced by solar activity. Its going to be a poor future, because of that what were doing now. Lets not forget about the pollution of CH4,NO-s, SO2 (in water transforms into H2SO3) But were also having trouble with waste, and it"s a serious problem. China and second place US are the worst and largest polluters. There simply is not enough regulation and initiative will-power for better ways of wasting products. Too much plastics aren"t being recycled and the use of light-decomposable plastics is low. We"ve still got the problem of lack of recycling. But the amount of cole and oil that is being burn isn"t even reasonable. Energy can be produced in another way. Like nuclear, solar, wind, wave, river (but not too much) power and more ways do exist. Desertec a European group, that thinks that we should invest into large areas of solar panes in the Sahara desert. Check what sized-area do we need for the electrical-supply of all EU. But there are also other alternatives. For instance a hydrogen-powered economy (H2 Economy) would be a great solution. Because all industries would still work on burning. We get H2 with the electrolysis of H2O. And when H2 burns, that is quite an explosion water creates (H2+O2->H20). It"s a clean way, plus its only gas, so we wouldn"t experience all these oil disasters. Trusting the market, isn"t really a great idea, as it didn"t really develop in a green way, but the opposite. But some changes are visible, we"re selling more electrical cars and hybrids than ever before. In the past and still today the oil industry is a big factor everywhere. Many economies rely very much on the price of it. But the problem was that the oil industry bought-off all potential green alternatives. Its called the power of money. In capitalism you cant make it without any potential investments and growths. Also Hydraulic fracturing is a serious health and environment hazard. Compare Vermont (The first US state to ban fracturing) and the rest of the US that hasn"t ban it. The last pollution is the one you probably never heard of, but is quite important. Space debris. Its becoming a more and more serious problem in the LEO and GEO and especially in the polar orbit. More and more satellites, leftovers from previous missions and satellites" Its getting a problem as more and more missions continue. Space in 2050, if we continue business as usual, we"ll experience serious threads to all missions private or research-based, and new disasters will occur yet more often causing yet more trouble. It"ll become a serious problem and getting rid of it isn"t easy and cheap. You cant send a garbage truck into space like in Hollywood. You"ll need high precision spacecraft that will have to use an complicated radar to detect and slow-down debris. The slower the speed, the sooner they"ll fall back. But the worst part is, that you aren"t allowed to take back a dead satellite without the permission of the owner, that"s a problem. now lets head to the problems of human over-poulation. We"re the same as an bacteria culture. Because every species if given an great opportunity (no predators, diseases, much food and water) in nature will overpopulate an ecosystem. The nature has a system, so always when an species number is growing, the number of predators grows. But the Homo Sapiens is a problem. We"ve destroyed every predator in our way+ we are able to cure diseases (more or less). Nature has no systems to regulate our growth. So one day, the human number will meet the limit. The limit is when nature wont be able to work anymore and we"re going to collapse. A smaller amount of people are a lot more easy to control, organise and sustainably work. Inequality is also a bigger problem. We"re saying that we need the rich to invest in our future. But latest research has showed that we don"t need the rich (well, we need them in smaller amounts), in the UK the average income of the middle and low class hasn"t rise, but the income and worth of the rich has grown 2-times more. So taxing the rich less isn"t a good thing, but the opposite. But also evidence has showed that extreme redistributions aren"t as good. But equality is also very important, because it can cause an better living environment. Scandinavia, especially Denmark and Sweden have a very low GINI coefficient. They are also listed as the best countries to live in. Equality makes less crime (proven fact) and makes the people more sceptical. Compare Denmark and the South African Republic. But the point is that we need to plan more our future. I mean, how would you fell that your child would never have seen the outback & Norwegian fjords because they turned into plastics-factories? Your turn ,Good luck.