Second earth will soon be needed, warns WWF

[Swede]

Uh0oh.



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.

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

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Someone contact Magrathea

[Junkdrawer]

3. They're still in hibernation. The economic indices are not high enough.....

This free-money-no-employment recovery didn't fool them.

[earth mom]

2. I see the unrec crew has been busy on this thread. Can't have the truth on DU-no way no how.

:eyes:

[pintobean]

4. I'm sure the (w)rec(k)ing crew will be along shortly

Did you see that the admins referred to this as whining?

[Junkdrawer]

5. Thank goodnesss there were no pictures....

That REALLY gets them mad...

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Planning on being around in 2030?

I will bet you a case of the beverage of your choice (soylent green, perhaps?) that this claim turns out to be bullshit.

[rucky]

6. As far as resource consumption goes...

China, India and Brazil are just getting warmed up.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Better start building those space craft

I wonder who will get the best seats??

[pintobean]

8. Space arks.

The penguins get seats this time, last time they were left out in the cold.

[BeFree]

9. All we need is DNA

and a cloning machine and we're good to go.

40 years of circling the sun oughtta do it.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. As an environmentalist, I can say with certainty that the cause is not helped by unfounded hyperbole

I was active with the Rainforest Action Network in the 80s, and I remember being told with breathless certainty by several "authorities" that it was scientifically rock-solid that the Planet Earth would be uninhabitable to any life form higher than a cockroach by the year 2000.

That said, I fully support humanity expanding out in the solar system, and beyond.