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The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists
The Atlantic ^ | Jun 7, 2012 | Alexander Abad-Santos

Posted on 06/08/2012 7:16:05 PM PDT by presidio9

A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, “scares the hell out of me.” That would be James H. Brown, one of the authors of alarming paper published by Nature, talking to New York Times Green blogger Justin Gillis. Brown is not one of your everyday cranks predicting raptures and the end of days. He is a macroecologist at the University of New Mexico. And as The Atlantic's James Fallows, who pointed out this terrifying study to us, writes, this could be the most important news of 2012. How soon do these scientists expect the world as we know it to end? Gillis writes, "within a few human generations, if not sooner." The most frightening thing is that this finding isn't about what will come if we do not act, but that our effects on the planet's environment -- global warming, population growth, and overall resource extraction -- means that we've already passed a "tipping point." This isn't a plea for change. These are things scientists have been warning us

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 666; brown; chickenlittle; chickenlittles; endoftheworldlyrics; globalwarming; jameshbrown; manbearpig; population; scares; tippingpoint
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To: presidio9

I have thought that more than once during the 0bama presidency! Even more so if he gets reelected!


41 posted on 06/08/2012 7:45:21 PM PDT by Lucky2 ( 0BAMA MUST GO!)
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To: presidio9

Whatever. IMO they make this stuff up to get more grants.


42 posted on 06/08/2012 7:45:45 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Slings and Arrows; Revolting cat!

43 posted on 06/08/2012 7:46:29 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9
The answer will always be the same. Americans need to quit driving SUV’s and quit having having kids.
44 posted on 06/08/2012 7:46:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("The writing is on the wall - Unions are screwed. reformist2 10:04 PM #27"\)
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To: Paladin2

I don’t know. We just got home from the most beautiful drive back from WV and through Maryland, Cumberland gap, etc — through lush green mountain forests and rolling country hillsides ...the air was simply fragrant as we stopped atop the mountain tonight — a faint hint of honeysuckle mixed with a cool mountain breeze.

If this is the end of the world, we’re doing pretty good in this part of the world.


45 posted on 06/08/2012 7:49:15 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Revolting cat!
and then a miracle happened!
46 posted on 06/08/2012 7:51:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (Our new, happy lives.)
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To: presidio9
I'm thinking these folks should just follow their own convictions and get off the planet.

We would all be much better off.

47 posted on 06/08/2012 7:56:24 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: lonevoice
"Hey, Joey, do me a favor huh? If we're gonna travel together, ya gotta promise not to be an asshole."

---The Wanderers (1979)

48 posted on 06/08/2012 7:59:49 PM PDT by Scooter100 ("Now that the fog has lifted, I still can't find my pipe". --- S. Holmes)
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To: presidio9

THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!


49 posted on 06/08/2012 8:02:25 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: presidio9

They’ve beaten themselves stupid with their own hockey stick.


50 posted on 06/08/2012 8:05:00 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: presidio9

Ohhhhh nooooooeeeeeeeees! Are these the same ‘scientists’, perchance, who believe in population control and think there should be a minimum population on earth for ‘sustainability’?

Mmmm hmmmm. Thought so.

So what’s their problem with people dying because of ‘globull warming’? Seems to me they should be wetting their drawers for that opportunity to arise.


51 posted on 06/08/2012 8:10:30 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: presidio9

If we can get rid of these idiots by the world ending, it will be a big plus. This plague of stupidity must be stopped.


52 posted on 06/08/2012 8:12:24 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: presidio9
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53 posted on 06/08/2012 8:14:11 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: presidio9

Seems some stuff has been coming out of the Bilderberg meeting.


54 posted on 06/08/2012 8:20:22 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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To: cripplecreek

When I lived in Green Bay WI, any seafood restaurant featured frog legs on the menu and they were OK for Catholics to eat on Friday!

Some skeptic described the plagues visited upon Egypt and concerning the plague of frogs, wrote, “but Pharaoh, who liked them fricaseed, said he could stand it for as long as the frogs and the Hebrews could.”

Then there was that cartoon in National Lampoon.......


55 posted on 06/08/2012 8:23:48 PM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!")
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To: presidio9

I swear 99.9% of people believe one stupid thing or another. I can’t decide who is the greater nut-job, one who thinks socialism and distribution of wealth is the answer, or one who thinks the Earth is a boundless panacea from God.

Is anyone out there rational? Hello?


56 posted on 06/08/2012 8:26:31 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: presidio9

Pffttt!!! Another group of idiots in the Paul Erlich mold! When they are proven wrong they will merely rejigger the prophecy and go right along.


57 posted on 06/08/2012 8:26:58 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks presidio9.


58 posted on 06/08/2012 8:29:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: presidio9

Hmm, sounds series and possibly hugh.


59 posted on 06/08/2012 8:32:11 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Born to Conserve
I swear 99.9% of people believe one stupid thing or another. I can’t decide who is the greater nut-job, one who thinks socialism and distribution of wealth is the answer, or one who thinks the Earth is a boundless panacea from God

Is that what you really think? That 99.9% believe one or the other?

60 posted on 06/08/2012 8:38:13 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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