Posted on 01/15/2015 8:14:22 PM PST by PROCON
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science by 18 researchers trying to gauge the breaking points in the natural world.
The paper contends that we have already crossed four “planetary boundaries.” They include the extinction rate; deforestation; the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorous (used on land as fertilizer) into the ocean.
“What the science has shown is that human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption – are destabilizing the global environment,” said Will Steffen, who holds appointments at the Australian National University and the Stockholm Resilience Center and is the lead author of the paper.
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Carbon Dioxide: Byproduct of fermented cereal grains. Mmm beer.
Nitrogen: key ingredient in many fun compounds like Nitrocellulose, TNT and Nitrous Oxide.
Phosphorous:You want clean dishes or not?
These people are partisan idiots spreading propaganda.
We plugged 'em with a bunch of styrofoam boxes that Neil Young found.
Just another way to scare the folks out of their money.
only 1 thing for liberals to do— self-termination....
Libs, hold your breath till we tell you to breath.
Funny how the ozone hole problem went away when ozone hole grants went away too.
Hey! I found out what causes global warming... Global warming grants! Now I need a grant to study how to stop global warming grants.
Hmmmm. What to do?
Ground AF1?
Scientists are funny creatures. They love extinction in the past (evolution), but they hate extinction in the future. Fact: 99% of all species that have ever existed... are dead.
They were wrong. Oops
If you gave every man, woman, and child on earth a 1/10 acre allotment (about 20 yds by 20 yds, so a family of 5 gets a spacious half acre for a nice modern western residence and good yard for mowing), you would be able to place the Earth's entire population into...
ARGENTINA.
Now go look at a globe. Now look at the land area that is NOT Argentina.
We are a long, long away away from overpopulation.
(SF has a population density of 17,246 people per sq mi... which gives each person around 1/30 of an acre each... only 1/3 of what I alloted above. If we lived with the population density of SF, we could fit the entire earth's population into Texas.)
They have been saying this kind of stuff for decades and decades and have always been wrong.
We all need to shut up...this is “settled” science.
The school kids of today are being taught the exact opposite. I would like more to at least contemplate the facts you just presented. Some college professors would lose their positions if they ‘came out’ as NOT being in a panic about ‘Man’s Footprint’ on the earth.
Evolution is quite robust for a changing world, whatever the cause. There have been a few times when most of the species on Earth was wiped out. Life came back each time. The biggest difference is you now have one species capable of saving and reintroducing species. It’s not the problem they claim it is. The technology to bring back a species gone extinct is even emerging.
Klatu barado nikto
You can say that again :^’)
How much of our tax dollars funded this exercise in stupidity?
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