Humans Push Planet Beyond Boundaries Towards "Danger Zone": Study

Reuters ^ | January 15, 2015 19:07 GMT | Chris Arsenault

[Up Yours Marxists]

You up for this one Maverick???

[b4its2late]

I'm doing my best!

[trebb]

Along with making the pit too big in the avocado, God really messed up by putting His beloved creation on the poor old Earth....

[PROCON]

[FredZarguna]

[bkepley]

Clearly the only solution is one-world government by faceless bureaucrats.

[Raycpa]

Oh Crap..Not the dreaded “Danger Zone”.

[blackdog]

Uh-oh! We are in the double secret global grafters probation zone.

[PGR88]

Clearly the only solution is one-world government by faceless bureaucrats.

Yes, the answer has been staring us in the face all along. Huge energy taxes, spent on high-speed rail, underserved women's health and community organizing.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Back at ya! LOL

[EQAndyBuzz]

They have to prove it. Which they can’t.

[Raycpa]

http://www.metrolyrics.com/danger-zone-lyrics-kenny-loggins.html

[mountainlion]

All countries have muslim no go “danger zones”. Let me guess which danger zone has killed more people.

[wally_bert]

I do my best to help along the same lines, granted a few decades earlier and different make. The 350 has a slight valve lifter click. One day I will get around to it.

http://tysonneil.smugmug.com/Cars/Assorted-Cars-Trucks/i-RsTBnNK/A

[alloysteel]

Nine boundaries? Only nine?

These “boundaries” are artificial and pretty much meaningless, set in arbitrary manner and without any real logic or reasoning upon which to base them, other than to say “Mankind is bad for the planet.”

All the reasoning, such as it is, is backward from that point. What are we, some alien species that somehow was “seeded” on this world? The cycle of water vapor + carbon dioxide —> free oxygen + carbohydrates (and its reversal) has been going on ever since there was sufficient number of complex proteinaceous compounds to use energy to drive this equation. And this presence of these complex molecules has led to a hellish atmosphere indeed, with some 20% of the atmosphere polluted with the second most chemically active substance in the Universe. If this planet could survive that highly destructive element being turned loose, it can survive most anything.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Does this mean that the Earth needs more cowbell? Maybe Walken should chime in!

[UCANSEE2]

"The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet…the planet…the planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!"

"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic... *sshole."

[GraceG]

Dagnabbit, u beat me to the archer ref...

[Fungi]

Nonsense, pure unadulterated crap. The bottom line is more loss of freedom and more taxation, period.

[Bubba_Leroy]

http://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E