'Humanity's very survival is at risk'

[katty]

more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2739926.ece

From The Times

October 26, 2007

'Humanity's very survival' is at risk, says UN
(Mike Agliolo/Science Photo Library)

A computer enhanced image of earth from space at sunset
Lewis Smith, Environment Reporter

The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.

The environmental audit, for the United Nations, found that each person in the world now requires a third more land to supply his or her needs than the Earth can supply.

Thirty per cent of amphibians, 23 per cent of mammals and 12 per cent of birds are under threat of extinction, while one in ten of the world’s major rivers runs dry every year before it reaches the sea.

[Taverner]

1. Finally, can we agree Malthus was right????

Malthus was written off as a joke for too long - yet everything he said is coming to fruition.

Can we finally agree he was onto something????

[melody]

3. Social Darwinists like Bush cut their milk teeth on Malthus

They're putting forth an agenda that will make Malthus right simply because they think that's a good thing.

[angstlessk]

10. It is the rich nations in this world who are using up most of the resources

the poor use exactly what is needed to subsist.

Edit: kill the poor and you get a sliver for the rich...kill the rich and resources are freed up enormously..not that I am suggesting either.

[katty]

4. How does any entity manage a planet of 6 billion people?!

as powerdown becomes manadatory (dwindling resources, global environmental disasters/chaos/homes/jobs lost....and this reality is worldwide is indeed, 'every person/family/city/country for themselves'. The extremely wealthly can ride this out for awhile, but eventually, many,will fall into the global gulag.

[Taverner]

9. However the one thing that kills the rich is that wealth is relative

Without the poor, the wealthy are just as poor...

[BrklynLib at work]

2. That is exactly what the Bushites and religious fanantics want...

[reprobate]

6. I'm afraid you have read our Illustrious Leader wrong. Not Malthius, Swift.

Johnathan Swift of the "A Modest Proposal" Swifts.


”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

That MUST have been a Bush ancestor.

[BrklynLib at work]

8. Aha! Soylent Green is their dream of the perfect future!!!

[fenriswolf]

5. so do we flash fry or slow burn? bombs or global warming.

[katty]

7. I think it will be variety of events-we have already witnessed

and so many, tragically a part of or consumed by so much tragedy.