Living does not have to cause pollution or disease. Your attitude seems sort of fatalistic.
I suppose that depends on your definition of pollution. Human beings simply by living do create carbon dioxide, which is a pollutant. They do excrete wastes and gasses, which are pollutants. That's even before they cut down a single tree, mine a single mineral, burn a single log or coal or oil or other substance for heat, pave a single road, throw away a single outworn refrigerator.
Just by being alive, people pollute. And in the way we live -- you, I, virtually everyone alive -- we pollute. The fact that you and I are on computers discussing this issue means we were responsible for certain pollution which was necessary to make these computers, generate the power to run them, and discard or burn the boxes they came in.
Simply by being alive, you and I pollute. I try to reduce the amount of pollution I cause, but overall if I have to pollute the earth to live, that's a price I'm willing to pay for life. |
