You call it "whack". I call it "common sense".
There's a number of ways we can improve our environment. It wouldn't be a hard thing to do if we and the powers that be actually tried.
If we can put men on the moon, land a buggy on Mars and believe that we can move our entire population and way of life to another planet then surely we can "fix" Earth.
I'm not an environmentalist but why bother looking for another planet to live on when we have a perfectly good one here? Just needs to be looked after properly.
As shady pointed out, we've been living here for hundreds of thousands of years. We were doing just fine until we smartened up and became idiots...
Blind ambition and "progress", what the ʞ©$ɟ for?