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"I'm shouting a warning as loud as I can - Humans are a catastrophe for the Earth"
National Post ^ | Nov. 30, 2015 | India Sturgis, The Telegraph

Posted on 11/30/2015 5:51:22 PM PST by rickmichaels

Thirty years ago, Louie Psihoyos watched as two young children were killed a few steps in front of him. On a blue-sky day near a market in Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, he noticed a family walking hand-in-hand beside the road ahead. A large van swept past and he saw that one of its giant wing mirrors would hit one of the children as it tore past. Psihoyos shouted, but it was too little too late. Both children were dragged beneath the van's wheels and crushed.

"They died right in front of me," says the 58-year-old, Oscar-winning filmmaker, his moss-green eyes stretching in incredulity.

"I have had to live with the idea that I didn't scream loud enough. I didn't do enough. I could have changed that family's life. Because I was too weak, I didn't do enough that day and I've had to live with it. I don't want to live with the idea I'm not doing enough now."

It's an arresting story, one that drove him to spend five years making his new documentary, Racing Extinction. In it, Psihoyos and scientists explain how man's impact on the Earth is driving a new mass extinction, killing species at 1,000 times the background rate (the normal rate of extinction throughout the Earth's history), and that within 100 years half of the world's species will be extinct.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: louiepsihoyos; pennsylvania; perkiomen; racingextinction
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Well, sometimes I do have to wonder what He has in mind.


21 posted on 11/30/2015 6:43:33 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: sparklite2

Well, it’s worth the effort to study and find out.


22 posted on 11/30/2015 6:44:53 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

First name Louis, as in lulu.


23 posted on 11/30/2015 6:46:13 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: sparklite2

From the beginning of time, most of mankind has rebelled against the plan of the One who built this habitat for humanity.

I’m sure you’re familiar with what King Solomon said about nothing new under the sun.


24 posted on 11/30/2015 6:48:47 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

Oh, I’m sure it’s fine. It always balances out.
For every time something bad happens to good people,
something good happens to bad people. ;)


25 posted on 11/30/2015 6:54:00 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: rickmichaels
Because I was too weak, I didn't do enough that day and I've had to live with it. I don't want to live with the idea I'm not doing enough now."

You can do something now.....kill yourself.

26 posted on 11/30/2015 6:55:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bryanw92

yup, self-loathing hypocrite cowards who wont off themselves.


27 posted on 11/30/2015 7:00:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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If we are scourge on the earth- do the right thing and exit-
If you will not exit stop telling others to exit


28 posted on 11/30/2015 7:11:58 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: rickmichaels

If you believe in evolution, nothing man can do will destroy all life on the planet. And according to evolutionists thousands of new species will emerge from them.


29 posted on 11/30/2015 7:26:16 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yeah...try murdering all of the microbes. Some live in rocks.


30 posted on 11/30/2015 7:33:44 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Blennos
“Humans are as much a part of nature as tree frogs or algae. If humans are doing it, it is natural.”

Cool. So if Al Qaeda or ISIS murder and maim innocent men, women and children, its all natural, because humans (such as they) are a part of nature, as much as tree frogs or algae are. After all, they're doing it, so it must be a part of nature, right? Okay, what am I missing here, given your exact (and only) words above? I'm asking politely (this go-around).

31 posted on 11/30/2015 7:36:43 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Enough with the divisions. Lets get somebody in there who'll fix this mess.)
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To: IAMNO1

Man has a sin nature, so he sins, naturally. All this violence is man naturally sinning. Animals of the same species kill one another in some cases too, and naturally, as in it’s in their nature.

And none of this has led to the total destruction of poor mother earth, just some scaring.


32 posted on 11/30/2015 7:59:42 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

“And none of this has led to the total destruction of poor mother earth, just some scaring.”

Just you wait.


33 posted on 11/30/2015 8:15:09 PM PST by IAMNO1 (Enough with the divisions. Lets get somebody in there who'll fix this mess.)
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To: Loyalist

He probably loves Darwin’s evolution theory. Survival of the fittest, so why does he care if 1/2 of the species will be extinct? It must be so confusing to be a liberal.
I’m surprised he hasn’t killed himself to do his part to save the planet. All life matters to these wackos except human life.


34 posted on 11/30/2015 8:36:58 PM PST by No Socialist
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To: Loyalist

He probably loves Darwin’s evolution theory. Survival of the fittest, so why does he care if 1/2 of the species will be extinct? It must be so confusing to be a liberal.
I’m surprised he hasn’t killed himself to do his part to save the planet. All life matters to these wackos except human life.


35 posted on 11/30/2015 8:36:59 PM PST by No Socialist
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To: Loyalist

Great point.


36 posted on 11/30/2015 8:38:45 PM PST by Gluteus Maximus
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I believe it’s pronounced Louis Psychosis.


37 posted on 11/30/2015 9:29:49 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: heartwood

The guys a complete idiot; has he ever watched a hawk stoop on a rabbit and listen to the rabbit scream in agony, has he ever seen a bear eat a little bitty fawn alive while it screams in pain and terror, and it’s mother can only stand by and watch?
People die, animals die; and it is very in nature that any animal or person dies in peace and comfort while asleep.
I have always wondered if the plants scream while the sheep and cattle eat them.


38 posted on 11/30/2015 9:39:47 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: rickmichaels
I am enjoying the comments section on this article. Just a couple of mildly supportive comments, the rest sound like FReepers. :)
39 posted on 11/30/2015 9:45:20 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: 5th MEB

The word RARE fits between very —— in nature.
Sorry about that.


40 posted on 11/30/2015 9:46:41 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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