Blah, blah, blah. Well, seems our governments are succeeding AGAIN in distracting us from important things in life, LIKE SAILING!
Way too much time and effort spent on this. Yes, its good to regulate so we don't destroy ourselves too fast, but I'm sorry, its gonna happen weather we like it or not. We won't be around on this planet forever.
As Goose mentioned a long time ago, its all cyclical. Stick your finger in one hole in the dam and another will spring up.
So, go ahead, put restrictions on everything, make everybody stand in a single file line, let the government walk all over ya, save a few years in the life of a planet that has a life span of billions. While the government keeps you distracted and moves on to its next abomination. Don't mistake me for someone that throws trash on the ground though. I separate my trash and try to conserve, not buy too much junk I don't need. I am all for recycling. Its nice to keep the place clean. But, they wouldn't have done it if their was no profit in it, and it saves space to build other things that eat up more things we need to conserve. Round and round we go.
We cut down forests to make Big Macs and people scream, but I haven't seen anyone hunting for all their food lately.
In the larger scale of things, we are just another bacteria.