Are human beings destroying EARTH???

Round 1
fmrock: "I firmly believe that human beings are destroying our Earth. I have evidence of such degradation in the everyday life.

Take into account deforestation, caused by the high request of land for agriculture and urban development, the extensive action of the logging industry, and also wildfires and acid rains. As another proof of this ruin, let's think about air pollution, caused by industries, heating systems and traffic of motor vehicles, that cause serious problems to respiratory and cardiovascular apparatus, but also contribute to the global heating, a problem nowadays much discussed. Moreover, the industrial system has spread through advertising a consumer psychosis that obliges people to chase happiness buying unnecessary items and throwing away others, such as clothes, food, furniture and objects, considered as garbage even if they're still usable. All this rubbish takes a long time to degrade, and remains in natural environments ruining it. Today, also agriculture contributes to pollution: farmers are forced, in order to survive to the free market and globalization, to use pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers, that poison aquifers with their slag and that could make land unproductive. Human beings are no more the ones that appeared on Earth millions of years ago, when they adapted themselves to the world without modifying natural environments, only realizing useful structures to adapt the nature, as dams or channels for irrigation, they are behaving without considering the effects of their actions on the Earth."

simonote: "From what you listed, i think you don't understand what it feels like to not have cars and other transportation's. Why not you start living like a caveman, using fire as your only light source? And you shouldn't be on computer either, cos computer runs on electricity and electricity are generated by patrol, which we get from Earth! Although, i agree that we are consuming alot of Earth's natural resources, but if we don't use these natural resources, how are we going to live?"