can't the environment right itself. Read in a book that during the day : plants produce oxygen and at night carbon dioxide.
The production of oxygen, by plants, far exceeds their production of carbon dioxide. Regardless, no --- the environment, cannot right itself. As long as we're in the picture, the environment's natural systems are being supplanted by our intrusions. It takes 30 minutes for Man to cut down a tree. It took a hundred years for that same tree to sprout from a seedling and reach maturity. That's a horrifying ratio of almost one to two-million
(and we're only referring to deforestation here. There's plenty more going on that makes it "impossible" for the environment, the Earth, to -- right itself).
I'm living in the country and can tell you smog etc etc is not a reality here. When I walked a day or 2 ago I noticed how many plants were actually growing on their own in a very small plot.
Did you think you could see the increase in global temperature with your own eyes? Did you think you could taste carbon dioxide, or methane, or any of the other greenhouse gases? Do you think that just because it's cold in the Antarctic that global warming isn't happening, or that because you don't see trash in your neighborhood there are no pollutants? Your anecdotal examination of things is irresponsible. It is naive to think that just because you were never a victim of a crime that crimes do not exist. It is just as naive to think that just because plants grow on the side of the road, deforestation isn't happening.
Seriously, wake up.