What is so wrong with wanting a cleaner planet? Do you honestly think that the energy we use (coal and oil, for example), is going to be around forever? Given the option, and without mandate, would you choose for the harder choice to be green, or continue to drive your gas guzzling SUV? The resources that our planet has DO regenerate (some of them), but not at the rate we are using them.
What about landfills? Would you want to live next to a landfill? Given the exponential growth of the human population, do you honestly think we can continue out wasteful ways and keep piling on trash with no side effects?
I propose this for those opposed: park your car in your garage. Turn it on and stand in there. Obviously, it is not an accurate representation, but you quickly get the point. Secondly: build a house on or near a landfill. Feel like recycling yet?
Take a look at this documentary:
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See that? Those are rivers. Would you drink from that water?
"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.