#1 rule for liberals - RULE BY FEAR, doesn't matter how you do it, just be in control of the sheeples!
go to my profile page and go to links.... Massive uncoverings of U.N. B.S.
Attitude? read about U.N. Agenda 21 here.
Posted on 04/07/2005 7:48:48 PM PDT by lafroste
Humanity is heading for ecological disaster if instead of foreseeing and preventing environmental degradation we just react to it. This is the conclusion of a United Nations report compiled by 1300 leading scientists from 95 countries.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report previews the ecological state of the world in 2050. It lists 24 essential "ecosystem services," such as timber, clean air, and fresh water, and finds that 60% of them are being degraded or used unsustainably.
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. Among the gravest threats to the environment are excessive "nutrient loading" from agricultural fertilisers and the progressive disappearance of biodiversity. The extinction rate of species is already a thousand times higher than the average rate shown by the fossil record and is set to increase 10-fold in the next 50 years.
"Humans are fundamentally and to a significant extent irreversibly changing the diversity of life on earth," says the report, noting that this could harm pharmaceutical research and development.
The scientists warn of possible "accelerating, abrupt, and potentially irreversible changes." These include the collapse of fish stocks, such as North Sea cod; rapid growth of marine algae, creating oxygen depleted dead zones in the sea; and emergence of disease.
In Africa, growing pressure on water supplies combined with regional climate change has the potential to greatly enlarge the areas in which cholera is a threat. The range of malaria bearing mosquitoes is also likely to increase.
The release of carbon into the atmosphere and the leaching of nitrogen based fertilisers into water pose serious risks for chronic disease, the report finds. Increases in ultraviolet B radiation, ozone and other air pollution, and pollen production are also predicted.
The report gives four sets of predictions for 2050, based on the approach currently adopted to counter ecosystem degradation. "The scenario we are closest to now is the one we call order from strength," said Dr Reid. This describes a world in which international cooperation is lacking, economic competition is fierce, and environmental threats are faced only after they emerge. This is likely to deliver the fastest population growth, the lowest economic growth, and the most environmental damage of the four scenarios, he said.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Report is available at www.millenniumassessment.org//en/Products.Synthesis.aspx.
"...we're all going to die..."
But we don't have to. Not as a planet. Look at "growing presssure on water supplies" in Africa. I wonder where that pressure is coming from. Could it be that each "family" has six or seven children? What would it hurt to give them a little advice and tell them how children are created? Why do we need trillions of Africans? Africans without water. Is it somehow God's plan? Or is it simply their own poor planning?
POSSIBLE CHANGES! GOD HELP US ALLLLL!!!
Don't forget about the POTENTIALLY IRREVERSABLE CHANGES!
Look: WOLF!
[Humanity is heading for ecological disaster blablahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah...]
NEXT!
Who is doing the work?
"Top men."
And who would they be?
"I said, top men."
LVM
If any of you have a little patience and care about this issue and the undeniable math underlying it, there's a professor Bartlett from out West (maybe Boulder)that has an incredible lecture that everyone should see.
It's a realplayer file at:
rtsp://edison.ncssm.edu:554/programs/colloquia/bartlett.rm
it's 57 minutes long, but it's worth it.
That's only 'cuz Bruce Willis was not on the scene.
LVM
You are surely mistaken!
2Pe 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
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There is absolutely no way to know this. There have been many thousands of species that have appeared and died and we do not even know about them. The fossil record is not complete. In fact the fossil record we know of is just a small small small portion of the record of life that existed and died on this earth. Pure Bravo Sierra
When I was a wee lad, these same scientists were stating that pollution was going to cause global cooling and that people would die by the hundreds of million due to the resulting famine spurred by the man-made New Ice Age. By the year 2000, Texas was supposed to be covered in thick blankets of ice and snow every winter. The global climate is based upon natural forces well beyond our best efforts at control; this report is just another PSA for UN shakedown efforts.
There's no math what-so-ever underlying any of this socialist propaganda; but there is a great quantity of cannine feces!
Lessee, there's Algore, Jimmy Karter, John sKerry, Muddlin Halfbright, (am I missing someone?)
Well, I remember them telling me that thanks to the new Ice Age, I was going to be a popsicle down here in Florida.
That's okay. I was just making a funny. I definitely believe you read it cause I heard it someplace, too.
vaudine
I recognize dry wit when I see it.
I can handle teasing.
"...I'm selling all my shares of "Chicken of the Sea."
Do you think it is too late to unload my shares of North American Whale Bone? First corsets went out of style and now this!
There is no crisis.
L
Like the pit of corruption known as the UN is capable of doing anything about this
JUST WAIT UNTIL THE YEAR 2000!!!!!
THE POLAR ICE CAPS WILL HAVE MELTED!!!!
ALL THE WORLDS OIL WILL BE USED UP!!!!!
THE POPULATION BOMB WILL HAVE EXPLODED AND AFRICA WILL HAVE DIED FROM STARVATION!!!!!!!
THERE WILL BE NO DRINKABLE WATER LEFT!!!!!
and communism will rule the world.
Yes folks! BEEEEEWWWWWAAAAAAARE THE YEAR 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!
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