Two Earths Needed by 2030

[n2doc]

The over-use and pollution of Earth's natural resources have become so extreme that, at current rates, a second planet will be needed by 2030 to meet the world's needs, a new report warns.

The planet's 6.8 billion people were living 50% beyond Earth's sustainable means in 2007, the latest year for which figures are available, according to the biannual "Living Planet" report by WWF, a conservation group previously known as the World Wildlife Fund.

"Even with modest U.N. projections for population growth, consumption and climate change, by 2030 humanity will need the capacity of two Earths to absorb CO2 waste and keep up with natural resource consumption," the report says, adding that four and a half planets would be needed if everyone used as many resources as the average American.

The report comes shortly before countries begin meeting in Nagoya, Japan, on Oct. 18 to discuss the Earth's dramatic loss of species at the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity.

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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/10/wwf-second-earth-needed/1

We need that second Earth Now, dammit! That way we can send the TP'ers there.

[derby378]

1. We can start by no longer buying bottled water from Fiji

Honestly, it's the same thing you can get out of a garden hose. Folks, come on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu57AM5Yans

[Confusious]

3. Not that I would buy bottled water from fiji

But I also wouldn't drink the water that comes out of the garden hose here. It sucks.

I grew up in Alaska, so if the water is less then perfect, it sucks. After running it through a couple of carbon filters, some UV light and a reverse osmosis filter, then I'll drink it.

[derby378]

4. I've got a PUR filter on my kitchen faucet

Wonderful. Brita is good, too.

[Confusious]

6. Those filters don't help the water around here

Still tastes a little funny even going through them.

[maxsolomon]

2. we're not listening!

on last weeks Bill Maher show, PJ O'Roarke and SE Cupp both admitted Climate Change was real, then said that it was too expensive to do anything about, and pointless anyway because "China and India want to drive Buicks".

nothing is going to change until there's a crisis. and there will never be a crisis because it just gets worse so slowly no one notices. or at least no one rich and conservative notices.

[stuntcat]

8. "it gets worse so slowly"

That's exactly what I think. We ease into it. The disasters get worse but it's happening just slow enough it doesn't really worry people. It's the long emergency.

Species are having a mass-extinction, oceans dying, mountaintops being leveled. 30-40 thousand children are starving to death EACH day. Who cares? For TV watchers this "miracle" lately in Chili has suddenly made them feel like better people :eyes: Millions spent to save them, billions spent to report every imaginable detail of everything remotely involved.


Civilization will have a slow, pathetic decline. (just MY opinion)

[Dead_Parrot]

5. You got that backwards

If we find a nice new Earth, we'll all go and leave them with this broken one.

[On the Road]

7. Maybe the Earth is Like a Pumpkin

or any theoretical sphere for that matter.