A gorgeous children’s book “Wonderful Earth!” by Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen, describes how God made everything so perfectly in the beginning, and how we’ve made such a mess of things:

“We’ve chopped down the forests….

We’ve filled the air with dirty smoke….

We’ve made the rain sour….

We’ve poisoned the rivers and the seas….

And destroyed the places were animals live….

We’ve even made the weather go wrong!”

And finishes:

“We’re spoiling the beautiful place God gave us to live in. …..But if we ask him to help us change, maybe….just maybe…”

If we listen to what nature is telling us “loudly and clearly”, we can see God’s hand patiently over His creation.

I agree that a sense of urgency is necessary (which is why, like the Coulters, I have spent the last month preparing my urban backyard for chooks, vege patch, fruit orchard, compost, and water collection - I don't wish to continue contributing to the problem). I want to agree with Q&A’s assumption that humanity deserves better. But that would be ignoring what has been revealed in the scriptures. Tragially, it could be that humanity is getting what it deserves.

"all the levers of power are in the hands of the politicians guild, none in the hands of the people."

Actually not so Demos. Politicians are not silly, they reflect the
views of the majority and they all want more. Note how many want
pay rises and buy lottery tickets! They say that people get the
politicians that they deserve.

There is a well known economic theory called the "Tragedy of the
Commons" and I kind of think its going to apply here. So perhaps
in the end, nature will have to sort it all out, as we people
won't.

World population is still increasing at 80 million a year and
nobody says zilch, its accepted as a given. In that context,
Australia's 20 million just don't matter, we would be replaced in
90 days of human breeding, if we all dropped dead tomorrow.

Technology is one hope that we have. I'm still amazed that we all
run air conditioners, when its 40deg outside. One would have thought
that somebody would have figured out a solar driven air conditioner.

As to comparing our emmissions with others, the figures seem
somewhat questionable to me. If we got rid of massive power users
like aluminium smelting for instance, our figures would look dramatically better.
Yet that aluminium is for the benefit of
others. We use energy to grow food, yet export most of it.

Thank you for the wise words:
To be practical let's each of us who are in agreement with the article above begin practically to change for the good.

We are attempting to influence politicians.
Let's leave the lights and heater off when possible.
Let's leave the car at home and take the bike or bus.
Let's notice and budget precious water

There now we've started our own green revolution for change.

Only when the last river is poisoned
Only when the last tree is cut down
Only when the last fish is gone

will we realise that gold cannot be eaten.

(Anon)

Why must growth always be the target of land enviromentalism campaigns? Why are we not trying instead to actually make a good human achivement and be able to use technology and intelligence to work around these obstacles to growth rather than trying to cripple our great Australian civilization continuously? Australia here has a great oppourtunity to lead the world in what will one day be a great market of thinkers and innovation but oh no once again environmentalists who are as blind as disguised-foreigners wish to simply have no consideration.

would it not be great to have a government who would support green technology as you suggest?. How about tax relief for bicycle purchase rather than large cars being subsidized. Bikes are great technology and work to heal the world. It is governments who need to support human powered commuting!