Human activity is causing problems to
humans on staggering levels yet the majority of people choose to ignore what is happening
and going to happen quite soon.Global Environment Emergency
| Taken together, polar ice caps
in retreat, deforestation, ground water tables falling dramatically coupled with water
pollution, soil erosion, air pollution, the collapse of fisheries, and ozone depletion and
we have a situation which will certainly change life as we know it on planet earth.
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Yet the world's population doubled during the past 45 years to 6.2 billion,
and is projected to almost double again within 70 years, adding 250,000 people to the
world each day. (A large new city every two weeks)
Global
Environment Emergency
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The earth is
capable of supporting many more ecologically minded people than insensitive consumers, who
know no reasonable limits.
This
relationship is critical when it comes to food.
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According
to a massive United Nations environmental study released in May 2002, the planet is poised
on a precipice, and time is running out for making tough political and economic choices
that can pull it back from disaster.
 Humanity itself does not see what is coming
though it is being warned with increasing frequency and force
The
principle chemical pollutants found in the air have no safe level; they damage humans even
at very low levels.
Prosperity
built on the despoliation of the environment
is only a temporary reprieve from disaster.
Ecology and economy can be integrated.
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| While we can't kill the earth itself, the nurturing
aspect of the planet, its climate, air, water and biomass is destructible. Destroy that
and we destroy ourselves.
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Dr. Mark
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| Humankind poses a
growing threat to the health of Earths biosphere because of its growing population
and the tendency for an increasingly large fraction of it to adopt the lavish consumption
patterns of the developed countries. |
The earths forests are the lungs of our planet,
especially the Amazon, which if lost with the polar caps, spells doom and certainly gloom.
Global
Environment Emergency |
The United Nations (UN) World Summit on Sustainable
Development in Johannesburg should have figured population as a key component of
sustainable development, but the topic was basically absent. |
None of the proposed
solutions to the water crisis importing water, water conservation, expanded use of
desalination of seawater or developing genetically modified crops that use less water
will be sufficient to substantially change the outlook for water shortages in
2015 |
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