"...the authors state that nothing can prevent famines in which hundreds of millions of people will die during the 1970s (amended to 1970s and 80s in later editions)"
Posted on 05/16/2012 5:40:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
wo Earths would be needed to sustain human activity by 2030, report finds Report shows animal species fell 30%, wealthy countries do the most damage By Meghan Neal / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 9:40 PM Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 6:49 AM
Planet Earth in a tight spot.
Mankind is draining the earth's resources so quickly the globe would be bled dry before the end of the century at this rate, a new report shows.
Humans are living outside their means, depleting natural resources like forests, air and water 50% faster than the planet can renew, according to the 2012 World Wildlife Fund's "Living Planet Report" released this month.
If the trends aren't reversed, by 2030 we’d need more than two Planet Earths to sustain human activity, according to the study.
“If we just do business as usual…we’re just going to continue moving in this direction. At some point, the earth’s going to just give out. We don’t know when. But that’s a pretty scary thing to think about,” said Colby Loucks, director of conservation science at WWF. “The question is, we don’t know what the tipping point is.”
According to research by the WWF the demand on the planet’s natural resources has doubled over the last 50 years, with most of the burden falling on poorer nations.
Wealthy countries can have up to five times the "ecological footprint" as low-income countries, because consumption is much higher.
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DO NOT move everybody to Texas under any circumstance.....just kidding. Don’t Mormons get their own planet???
We’d better build the Moon settlement then and get started...
Well, if it takes 10 years to bring an oilfield into high production we shouldn’t do anything as it won’t help tomorrow. Same insightful logic.
that "capitalist" thingy has got to go...
The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!!
Yawn. Consider the source.
Well, Mars is just SITTIBG there.
I mean, DUH....
sitting, too.
—wealthy countries do the most damage—
And the most good.
That is the thing about power. It can be wielded in both directions. Humans do more harm than animals but far, FAR more good.
"...the authors state that nothing can prevent famines in which hundreds of millions of people will die during the 1970s (amended to 1970s and 80s in later editions)"
Are you sure that it isn’t planned for November 8th?
Based on what critera? I've seen credible studies showing that the carrying capacity of the Earth may be 36 Billion or higher.
/johnny
World Wildlife study, huh? Isn’t that the same group who has the Steve Irwin anti-whaling ship?
I’m sure this is a completely honest, double-blind type study. By the way, how much government research money was used or will be generated by this “report”?
Obama trying to motivate the Trekkie vote apparently...
Cool!
Better the get the space program into over drive! Stop wasting money on the lame, lazy and perverted, and spend it on getting to, and terraforming Venus and Mars. And creating orbital colonies and manufacturing.
And...
IN any case, this is complete BS by Envirofascists. We’re not actually using most of world as it is. What we do use, is usually not used very efficiently, because we DON’T NEED TO!
And if you went with Manhattan density levels, everyone on earth would fit into a 290 x 290 mile square (including parks and working structures), about the area of Utah.
Ah the every ten years, or so Leftist cry of Wolf. We are doomed. The Earth is doomed. We’re all gonna die.
World Wildlife Fund is one of the leading liars about diminishing polar bear populations.... That kind of fear mongering brings in lots of donations so they won’t be stopping
Remember that once all of the trees in the Amazonian jungle, i.e. tropical rain forest, are cut down, NOTHING EVER GROWS BACK THERE AGAIN. That is the rule of the evironmentalists. Just like the entire continent of Europe has been denuded of trees for 2000 years of tree cutting and the entire eastern half of the USA has never had a single tree, plant or shrub grow to replace the trees that have been cut down since the “dreaded white man” arrived there around 1100 AD. I just checked my back yard and there are no trees growing there to replace the one I cut down 4 years ago. Of course I am ignoring all of the little oak trees that sprout up in the lawn from the acorns and get mowed down.
I’ve long wondered why the Amazon rain forest hasn’t become a desert based upon the environmentalists warnings that there are no trees left there. And, of course, they ignore evidence that the areas the uncivilized native tribes that have clear cut areas before the Spanish arrived, have all been reclaimed by the Amazon rain forest.
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