[circlecity]

They said the exact same thing 10 years ago.

[Abathar]

I can remember hearing this exact same speech but using slightly different reasons in 1977 while in 8th grade.

[TexGuy]

UN report warns environment at tipping point

Not another "tipping point" (exasperated) ...

[Da Coyote]

Was the report written by the 1st grade graduate or the 2nd grade graduate on their staff?

Inquiring minds want to know?

[beethovenfan]

Translation: We want your money.

[twistedwrench]

So let’s start a pool, which goes first

Environment or Guam

[ZX12R]

A United Nations report warns that the earth's environmental systems "are being pushed towards their biophysical limits" and that sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes are looming.

I believe it's always been this way. If you want to live on a planet with a static climate , go find one. This one is dynamic. Besides, if it is happening, there ain't a damn thing we could do about it anyway.

[PetroniusMaximus]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No Global Warming For 15 Years: New UK Met Office global temperature data confirms that the world has not warmed in the past 15 years

[cardinal4]

Hmmm. Seems like we have heard this before..

[SargeK]

Malthusians - spouting the same doomsday crap since 1798.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

If true a bunch of people would die which is what they claim to want anyway.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Also I love how they all jet down to Rio de Janeiro to receive and impart this “wisdom”.

[bossmechanic]

Oh fer cryin’ out loud!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

It’s just too bad the UN couldn’t have been around way back when to save the dinosaurs.

[scram2]

FR is slipping. Where is the picture of the 1950’s lookin’ dude holding his hand to his forehead and saying “not this sh*t again”?

[Sir Napsalot]

I suggest the whole UN move to Brazil to closely monitor it, whatever teh current ‘it’ du jur is.

[SampleMan]

If something isn’t done quickly, every Leftist on the planet will have to commit suicide to reduce mankinds impact on nature.

[marsh2]

There has to be a crisis to convince legislators that the middle class in developoing countries must accept a much lower standard of living with substantial financial penalties for their unsustainable lifestyle. People must see that it is for the greater good that their property and livelihood is reallocated to “environmental” purposes. They must accept that their individual freedoms are actually causing the crisis and they must step back into “sustainable” ways for the good of all and for future generations.

If there wasn’t a suitable crisis, there would be no need to rachet back. There would be no need for global government to direct the evolution; a cental global environmental eforcement arm; regional governance/ control by unelected bureaucrats, tribes and environmental NGOs; reallocation of vested individual wealth; investment and trade opportunities for ecosystem services and impacts on public “goods.” People like Al Gore and Bill Clinton couldn’t get richer.

[SaraJohnson]

UN: Give us your money and power now, or we are going to flip it!!!