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Global ecological disaster predicted in next 50 years
British Medical Journal ^
| Owen Dyer
Posted on 04/07/2005 7:48:48 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: Raycpa
If we are lucky enough to survive the Bush presidency. ...funny...that's what Saddam said.
...I think Uday and Qusay said it, too.
...hmmmmm....
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:10:18 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: lafroste
[ Just a friendly heads up that we're all going to die. ]
I'll drink to that...
We start dieing from the day we are born..
Some say we'll live forever, all of us, its just matter of where we will spend our time..
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:10:41 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
To: lafroste
Your guess is as good as theirs, probably better.
How much money did this UN funded study cost, where did it come from, and who pocketed the leftover change?
To: lafroste
The scientific expertise of any UN supported or sanctioned group is somewhat less than Kofi's integrity.
To: lafroste
What does it matter...I'll be dead in 50 years...
But seriously, just compare the fixed land area against the exponential rise in population. Unless technology changes or unless the percentage of people per square foot of land changes, then there will be a point of climax. It won't be pretty.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:13:08 PM PDT
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: paulat
Not just Saddam. The UN, and the Democratic senators and representatives, France,Germany. The list is endless.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:14:10 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: All
these "scientists" must have been involved in the UN "oil for BS" scandal.....
To: ClearCase_guy
"1300 leading scientists believe that?"You can find "1300 leading scientists" (including Nobel Prize winners) who believe just about anything, including that "up" is really "down", "white" is "black" and that the moon is really made from green cheese.
![](http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Ordovician/Images/Bambach.gif)
![](http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/intro/extinction/extinctionperiodicity.gif)
![](http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/sep4.gif)
Generally, though, there is evidence that the extinction rate varies greatly over time. We (humans) may think we're pretty darn powerful, but we ain't nuttin' compared to the comet that killed the dinosaurs.
To: lafroste
This degradation obstructs the UN Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000, the most ambitious of which was a halving of the world's population existing on less than a $1 (£0.53; {euro}0.78) a day or threatened by hunger or lack of clean water.
Now I understand why they opposed Bush's plan to remove Saddam from power. He was integral to their meeting this goal.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:20:15 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: lafroste
I can't believe somebody didn't already post this. Well here it is for your fun and enjoyment.
![Image Hosted by ImageShack.us](http://img198.exs.cx/img198/2581/doomed1oc.jpg)
DOOMED!
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:21:51 PM PDT
by
WideGlide
(That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
To: lafroste
When I was a kid, a previous generation of scientists told me I was going to commute to work in a flying car...or that I would have to live in an underwater house because there wouldn't be any land left to live on...but not to worry, because those were only temporary problems; apparently we would all starve to death by the year 2000.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:23:43 PM PDT
by
Ranxerox
To: lafroste
Hmm, I seem to recall that an environmental apocalypse has been predicted consistently since the 1950s or so.
/Looks outside
No apocalypse yet.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:24:46 PM PDT
by
swilhelm73
(Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian)
To: TASMANIANRED
A little bird told you, no doubt.
vaudine
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:25:20 PM PDT
by
vaudine
To: lafroste
compiled by 1300 leading scientists from 95 countries There aren't 1300 leading scientists.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:28:27 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(50 trillion sovereign cells working together in relative harmony)
To: Sooth2222; ClearCase_guy; 1Old Pro; aardvark1; a_federalist; abner; alaskanfan; alloysteel; ...
"We (humans) may think we're pretty darn powerful, but we ain't nuttin' compared to the comet that killed the dinosaurs." Are you tellin' us that iffn our ancestors had used Bonami instead of Comet the dynos would still be alive? Damn that Fred Flintstone!
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:31:49 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The Lord has given us President Bush; let's now turn this nation back to him)
To: lafroste
Well, that settles it! No more electricity or SUV's, or other trappings of modernity. We're just going to have to bring back feudalism and live like tenth-century peasants!/sarcasm off
To: lafroste
Still fighting population growth, eh? 50 years from now, everybody, even the UN, if we are so unfortunate as to still have a UN, will know that population decline is the actual problem.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:41:14 PM PDT
by
hauerf
To: lafroste
The scientists warn of possible "accelerating, abrupt, and potentially irreversible changes."POSSIBLE CHANGES! GOD HELP US ALLLLL!!!
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:41:29 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Need a thread hijacked? Call TheBigB! 24 hours a day...reasonable rates...inquire within...)
To: vaudine
I read it somewhere but it was a couple of summers ago. It was when the Energy Bill got voted down.
I doubt that I could ever find it again.
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posted on
04/07/2005 8:43:16 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Rule # 4. When liberals have factual evidence that their position is wrong they ignore the evidence)
To: editor-surveyor
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