Replying to Does anyone care about the enviornment?

Im shocked.  I expected most of this site to be big envionrmentalists seeing that most everything we all do involves the out doors in someway.  However after reading the democrat thread and a few others im kinda shocked.  People in that thread were talking about how they think drilling in alaska wont hurt the envioronment at all. Im not sure if people are just very uneducated (im not saying im a professional on the stuff but I am in college to become one).  It shocked me that only a few people seemed to care about how migrating birds went to get a drink and eat in a pool near a neuclear powerplant in Canada and nearly all died a greusom death.  Some ignorantly said that "thats just Canada it couldnt happen in the US or other highly developed countries"  but it does.  Im not an anamal rights freek or vegan or anything i just have understood how delacate the balance between different species in the global ecosystem really is.  When hundreds of anphibion species go extinct every decade due to human global abuse dont you think we should do something?  You might be saying "who gives a fuck about some little frog in the rain forest" but that frog probably effects its ecosystem more then the giant panda that everyone and their mom is in love with.  Im not going to argue on Global warming because I myself am not even sure on how i stand on the issue

I feel the gas price rise as much as anyone, i commute over 30 miles round trip to my job because i live in bum fuck egypt.  But Im the first one to say ill take the high price for a few years if soon we can get a clean safe and global energy source. 

This one i dont have any info to back it up but i got it from class notes and it stuck in my mind.  people waist so much clean drinkable water that the 2% of clean water is being dangeriously close to being depleted.

Last point probably the most scary to me.  If we keep growing in the same rate that we have been for the next 1000 years there will be around 1700 people in every square yard of the globe...ocean arctic everything, something will give by then and the population will eventually find its carying compasity and survival of the fittest will kick in.  Do you think you would be able to last?

I just had to do a short rant and i hope my line of thought isnt to jumbled to follow