Humanity should start saving nature and switch to 80 percent renewables by 2030, otherwise the Earth will keep losing species, and within 33 years around 800,000 forms of life will be gone, conservation biologist Reese Halter told RT’s News with Ed.
Humans have changed the Earth so much that some scientists think we have entered a new geological age.
According to a report in the Science Magazine, the Earth is now in the anthropocene epoch. Millions of years from now our impact on Earth will be found in rocks just like we see fossils of plants and animals which lived years ago – except this time scientists of the future will find radioactive elements from nuclear bombs and fossilized plastic.
RT: Tell us about this new age.
Reese Halter: Yes. There are three things that come to mind.
First of all, imagine you’re back on the football field. Each year in America – America alone – we throw away the equivalent of one football field, a 100 miles deep. That is the first thing.
The second thing, we’ve entered the age of climate instability. That means from burning subsidized climate altering fossil fuels our food security is in jeopardy.
The third thing that is striking is we’re losing species a thousand times faster than in the last 65 million years. At this rate within 33 years, by midcentury – that means 800,000 forms of life, or half of everything we know will be gone. The only way we can reverse this is to two things: save nature now, our life support system, and we do this by switching to 80 per cent renewables by 2030. It is a WWIII mentality. In America we have the technology; we have the blueprint. We lack the political will just right now. But in the next short while we will, because it is a matter of survival.
RT: We’ve just gone through the hottest month on record. There is plenty of data out there to suggest that we truly are entering something our world has never seen in our lifetime. To brand it as a new geological age, what impact is that going to have?
RH: It’s got the impact that humans are here. As I said earlier, we’re talking a 160 percent more than mother Earth can sustain 7.4 billion people. The way to do it is to pull it back to 90 percent. If we were a big bathtub the ring will read: toxicity, toxicity, toxicity. We’ve got to peal that back, because what we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves.
* * *
Truly a greater threat than ISIS, or debt loads, or Zika.
On the bright side, if warmonger Hillary is elected, many of the world’s species will no longer exist anyway.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:51 am
Not humans.
Davy on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:18 am
Clog, 1/2 of humans may be gone by then and their economic activity will likely be 1/2 or less.
Davy on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:26 am
Ape Man posted this reference the other day and it sums up our predicament in regards to species loss and cannot end well for humans.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160811101332.htm
“Global change will strike the oldest and most complex ecosystems of the world hardest, regardless of their past stability…invasive species, the warming climate and environmental degradation have altered natural habitats so deeply that species adaptation to historical conditions may not be helpful under these new circumstances…when species become extinct in a sequence consistent with their degree of adaptation to the ‘natural’ environmental conditions within which they had evolved, their extinction has only a limited effect on the overall diversity of the community. Any deviation from this pattern however, may trigger extinction cascades, eventually leading to the collapse of the entire network.”
Kenz300 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:44 am
Too many people demand too many resources…yet the world adds 80 million more mouths to feed, clothe, house and provide energy for every year…….this endless population growth is unsustainable…..
The Pill, the Condom, and the American Dream – The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/the-pill-the-condom-and-the-american-dream/498206/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
ghung on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 9:07 am
“…that means 800,000 forms of life, or half of everything we know will be gone. The only way we can reverse this is to two things…”
Reverse a mass extinction? That would be a neat trick.
Plantagenet on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:14 am
Obama just self-ratified the Paris Accords he self-negotiated last December, promising that global T won’t rise over 2°C. I don’t see how that will work given that the Paris Accord doesn’t stop CO2 emissions from going up.
Nonetheless Obama is boasting that he’s stopped global warming. I think he’s gonna break his arm, he is patting himself on the back so hard.
Cheers!
Cheer!
Hello on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:28 am
No mention of population growth being the problem.
When will it become politically correct to discuss this?
Boat on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 12:10 pm
Hello,
Population overshoot and climate change should top the agendas of all countries. Unfortunately it’s gonna take some severe weather with tremendous cost and death to raise awareness.
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:22 pm
According to the fossil record, it takes the biosphere/life an average of 10 million years to fully recover from a mass extinction. So there is some hope for the future descendants eh? Except the fossil record also indicates that small is better – almost no terrestrial species over 90 – 100lbs survived. We are here only because of the last (KT) mass extinction and our way back mom was small and furry.
Way back mom is kinda cute looking in the artist’s rendition.
Meet Your Mama: First Ancestor of All Placental Mammals Revealed
http://www.livescience.com/26929-mama-first-ancestor-placental-mammals.html
penury on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:47 pm
I have not been able to tract the mass die off in the Oceans as closely as I would like. Apparently the news of thyis has fallen into the same black hole as illegals crossing the border, excess heating in the oceans and radiation from Fukishima. Oh well no news is good news, at least for the PTB,
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:53 pm
Storm Hermine’s damage fueled by global warming, scientists say
Forecasters say storm is expected to stall off the coast of New Jersey and other parts of the north-east as governors declared states of emergency
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/04/storm-hermine-damage-global-warming
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 2:09 pm
What about fat hogs on welfare, who waddle around at Wal-Mart. Those aren’t going extinct are they?
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 2:25 pm
Here is how this works. I am a white male and I don’t have any kids.
Over yonder, is the Mexicans, every last one of them has 6 kids, and welfare checks.
And over there is the Muslims, every last one of them has 6 kids, and welfare checks.
Take a look off to the side, and there are the blacks, every one of them with 6 kids and welfare checks.
So along comes the shrill Hillary bitches. And she screams, there is too many people I
in the world, so Hey Go Speed Racer, you better, not ever, have any kids. See cause I don’t have any anyway. But does the shrill Hillary bitch say anything about all those other groups and their exponential pile of kids? Nope, not a peep. And not a peep that all their welfare checks are paid for by my taxes.
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 2:53 pm
GSR, some of them will be extinct soon. Take a look at this move in Great Britian welfare state.
Obese people and smokers ‘banned from routine surgery’ as NHS attempts to cut spending costs
‘It’s the only way providers are going to be able to balance their books… the service is bursting at the seams’
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/obese-people-and-smokers-banned-from-routine-surgery-as-nhs-attempts-to-cut-spending-costs-a7223731.html
The great cull begins. It’s just the beginning. Eventual things like medicaid and medicare and social security payments will be reduced then gone. Also corporate and union pensions. All the normal weight non smoker people cheering this on are delusional if they think it’s going to stop at this. The obese and smokers are first because they are easy. Modern day social paharias. Take it to it’s logical conclusion. If you’re not in “the club” you’re just waiting for your turn to be bent over. This is going to be a big financial blow to the criminal tobacco and frankenfood criminal corporations. Once your customer base die offs because the taxpayer funded health care system will no longer pay to keep them alive and consuming your addictive products, whadda you gonna do? It’s the loss of a major subsidy for them. Many of them will remain in business, since addictive dopamine releasing substances are a temporary balm for the growing amount of impoverished folks with no futures. I think 1/2 to 3/4 of the price of a pack of smokes is taxes, so maybe the tobacco lobbyists will concentrate on getting that removed to increase sales to the poor. Little Debbies snack cakes and such are already dirt cheap, so franken food sales will continue. A similar corporate subsidy loss has happened in the US with the cutting of food stamps recently. The dollar stores and walmart sales and stock prices have dropped and they very worried.
Let Them Eat Twinkies
“Things are looking so good for poor people that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 of them are being dropped from SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp program, this year. Some 20 states are reinstating the three-month limit on benefits to adults 18-49 who are not disabled or raising children. Thus freed from a crippling dependency on government handouts, these poorest of the poor are doing much better now, many of them actually motivated to go out and create jobs — in the field of heroin marketing, for example.
Surprisingly, it turns out there’s a downside to cutting Food Stamp benefits. It has been a serious blow to the sales of WalMart and Dollar General Stores — the sector of the retail market known as the Bottom Feeders. In addition to the fact that the employees of these stores need Food Stamps to survive (witness WalMart’s warm-hearted annual drive to collect canned SpaghettiOs so their employees and their families can have a Christmas Dinner), it turns out that the stores also need Food Stamps to survive.
Dollar General last week reported an 18% drop in its stock price after it reported disappointing sales, and found itself in a price-cutting war with WalMart, all since the food stamp cuts started to materialize. DollarTree reported similar problems. Cutting prices on staple items will reduce profits further, of course, but the companies hope it will allow them to hang on to their customers until things get better. (As we all know, things always get better, always before the system breaks down. That rule is as inviolate as the one we all relied on in 2008, the one that said: housing prices never go down.)”
http://www.dailyimpact.net/2016/08/29/let-them-eat-twinkies/
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss – review
A damning investigation into the junk food industry is both chilling and contentious
“New York Times journalist Michael Moss spent three-and-a-half years working out how big food companies get away with churning out products that undermine the health of those who eat them. He interviewed hundreds of current and former food industry insiders – chemists, nutrition scientists, behavioural biologists, food technologists, marketing executives, package designers, chief executives and lobbyists. What he uncovered is chilling: a hard-working industry composed of well-paid, smart, personable professionals, all keenly focused on keeping us hooked on ever more ingenious junk foods; an industry that thinks of us not as customers, or even consumers, but as potential “heavy users”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/24/salt-sugar-fat-moss-review
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 3:13 pm
GSP, you and many others have no idea as to the extent of the welfare state, but everyone is going to find out. Hell at least half of the US military budget is just another unnecessary corporate welfare program. Why is it always the poor folks you angry taxpayers whine about and go after? Oh yeah, it’s that thing again about not having the balls to go after the real culprits – easier to take out your anger and frustration on the weakest segments of society. The welfare to the poor is a drop in the bucket compared to the welfare for your overlords.
How the United States built a welfare state for the wealthy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/12/how-the-united-states-built-a-welfare-state-for-the-wealthy/
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare.
http://i1.wp.com/www.zebrafactcheck.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Keep-Your-Government-Hands-Off-My-Medicare.png?resize=640%2C426
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 3:35 pm
Go figure?
Thousands of Homes Keep Flooding,
Yet They Keep Being Rebuilt Again
http://e360.yale.edu/digest/thousands_of_us_homes_keep_flooding_and_being_rebuilt_fema_insurance_louisiana/4792/
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 4:44 pm
Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the
sea would eventually imperil the United
States’ coastline are no longer theoretical.
“NORFOLK, Va. — Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to drive through.
Five hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times a year, cutting the town off from the mainland.
And another 500 miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is forcing the city to spend millions fixing battered roads and drains — and, at times, to send out giant vacuum trucks to suck saltwater off the streets.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html?_r=0
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:21 pm
This is a brilliant example of human cognitive dissonance in real time. As the seas are swallowing his town the mayor of Fort Lauderdale and the development industrial complex still can’t override their inherent growth obsession. You can almost hear the anticipatory dopamine squirts in their greedy monkey brains as they contemplate the profits on projects that will be underwater soon or not even built. How much more evidence does anyone need to conclude that the humans are not in control? The maximum power principle is. Humans are following their inherent evolutionary programming. Their is a “pro growth” peice of biological software running in their brains.
Rising Seas Pull Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s Building Boomtown, Toward a Bust
The Venice of America is expecting its population to grow by a third, but it already can’t handle the impacts of climate change.
“Mayor Jack Seiler says the goal is to turn Fort Lauderdale into “the city you never want to leave.” The population is expected to grow by a third, more than 50,000 people, in the next 15 years. Nearly 5,500 apartments and condos are, or will soon be, under construction and developers are seeking to build another 2,400 units in the next few years. The city processed 26,000 building permits with a construction value of $1.8 billion last year alone.”
“”There are winners and losers,” said Keren Bolter, a climate scientist who grew up here and studies sea level rise. “But in a few decades, most waterfront properties in Fort Lauderdale will flood for days, weeks at a time.”
Yet construction continues unabated, often without any thought of long-term climate impacts. The risks will be borne not only by developers splurging on the region’s extraordinary building boom, but by millionaires already ensconced on prime lots lapped by high tides and on the working poor who inhabit the soggy areas along verdant inland canals.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032016/ft-lauderdale-climate-change-global-warming-rising-sea-level
Sapolsky on Dopamine: Not About Pleasure, But Its Anticipation. VIDEO – 5min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrywDP9Ii0
Here is a prediction for ya. Over the next couple of years more research data (and consequences) will come out that shows the earlier estimates of SLR, were, like many other AGW timelines, greatly underestimated.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:44 pm
Go Speed: US Welfare stats today…
Percent of welfare recipients who are white / caucasian 29,061,000
Percent of recipients who are black 16,194,596
Percent of recipients who are Hispanic 19,800,000
Percent of recipients who are Asian or Pacific Islander 2,736,000
Percent of recipients who are Other / Mixed 97,000
Total: 67,891,000 or about 30% of the US population.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/
Or, were you talking about “other” countries? Pointing the finger again?
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:49 pm
Ooops! Should be … ” 67,891,000 or about 20% of the US population.” Too early. Need more coffee. lol
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:06 pm
Hello Makita power tools,
WTF i never said the welfare bums can’t be caucasian. There is a whole lot of white trash. That is why they are called white trash, is cause of their skin color.
They are the decayed DNA of what used to be
the greatest nation on Earth, but now just a bunch of deadbeat pot-heads and single white mamma’s. Whole country
is full of white deadbeats. But i dont think they breed near as fast as the “minorities”. LOL the minorities are now the majority. And whitey is now the minority.
Probably best if Hillary wins. She will keep importing smart East Indians with Ph.D.’s in computer engineering. That will keep displacing the American White Trash, moving them into the parent’s basement, off to the trailer park, or best of all to the freeway on-ramp where they can beg with a cardboard sign while smoking their weed and drinking their Fireball.
But we still need to hack off the SNAP cards and the welfare checks, if we are going to properly exterminate the American white trash. The sooner the better.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:29 pm
“But we still need to hack off the SNAP cards and the welfare checks…”
If the government tried that, you will see the end of the US as a country. In case you have not noticed, over half of Americans are supported in some measure by the government. Most of those half plus are armed and would think nothing of taking what they need.
About one million police (paid by the government) vs 100 million plus armed, hungry, frustrated, drugged Americans, many of whom are ex military on the loose. Who would win? And the actual military will be protecting the government and their families if anyone, not you. The riots all over the country would make a war seem mild by comparison, I think.
Apneaman on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 12:22 am
GSR, want to explain how East Indians with Ph.D.’s in computer engineering replace white trash? The reason you need to import those people is because you cannot produce them. The Indians are not replacing anyone – they are filling an intellectual and technical void. Same as 1400 Nazi scientists did at the end of WWII and lucky for you or else there might be a USSR hammer and sickle flag on the moon and much glory missed, not to mention the thousands of spinoff goodies. Most empires bring in foreign talent. It’s one of the privileges. BTW, the US was never the greatest and it’s more of a collection of corporations and customers than a nation and all that flag waving and hand on heart anthem and pledging is brainwashing to keep sheeple like you believing in the myth. The overlords do not give a shit about you. The way you talk about the poor and minorities and the contempt you have towards them is exactly how those in the American social hierarchy above you feel about you and everyone else below them. You’re nothing but a sub human monkey to be used as a cog in the machine. If the 1% and their managerial class that make up the 10% deem you and yours as a burden/useless eater or a threat after the next economic step down they will roll right over you like a bug. Most of those poor will be the first to go and then the working classes who were above them on the socioeconomic ladder will be the new occupants of the bottom rung and be treated as per the blueprint. The system is designed to have the poor. Without the poor and working class there is hardly anyone left to exploit and trust me, a large group is always at the bottom getting exploited since civilization began. It’s by design. If I was part of the 1% I would love you and all those like you who direct all their anger and rage at the groups who have ZERO power and influence. I’d be stirring that shit up for sure. That way you won’t notice my hand in your pocket. It’s all so predictable how the different groups react in times like these. It’s the same groups reacting the same way every time over and over and over. All the food stamp recipients could disappear in the middle of the night and not one fucking thing in your life would change. What do you think would change if they were gone? Would they rush out and fix America’s rotting infrastructure? Would you get a raise? Manufacturing plants would open up country wide with good wages and benefits and your birthday off? the mass corruption will cease? The national debt clock will start going the other way? Major, Ghawar like oil reservoirs will be discovered in Kansas? Critical thinking will make a comeback? Chicks will suddenly dig you? No none of that would happen and nothing would change. You might feel satisfied for five minutes and then it will all come back and you’ll be on the lookout for a new target, but not the people who are behind it and benefiting. No that world entail some very real risk taking them on and courage and sacrifice.
globalfks on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 12:43 am
A lot of things would change if you remove stupid, brainwashed people. More would change if you remove the psychopaths and manipulators.
makati1 on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 5:11 am
Ap, long comment, but well worth the time to read.
Americans are very good finger pointers and blamers but few Americans will look in a mirror and truthfully see themselves. I can relate as I was one of them until I opened my mind to the real world outside the US MSM Iron Curtain. Most never do/can.
Most of the poor have zero choice. Just as most in the middle class have no chance of ever being more than the future poor. When the social safety nets collapse(and they will), the reality of my last statement will be obvious to even the deepest in denial.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 6:15 am
Most people are so fat and so stupid
they should be ground up and canned
for cat and dog food.
BUT the cats and dogs have their dignity
And I dont think they would find that
very appetizing.
Yeah 50% on welfare an government checks
but they all shooting off thei fat mouths about
‘freedom’. I hope Trump wins. He will crash
the whole economy. Then he will shut down
the welfare checks.
Then all the lazy pothead fat slobs can learn how
to use a shovel.
onlooker on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 6:49 am
Among other false myths hoisted upon us the American people Mak, was that this “American dream” that anybody could reach it and attain it. Obviously false first because upward economic mobility was never something that was for the masses but a few luck smart or very hard working people. Second false because to be rich is not a dream it is just being on a treadmill of inner expectations that can never be quite met as greed is never satiated. Oh and lets not go to “All men are created equal” Never was true anywhere or at any time and never will be true anywhere ever.
Davy on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 6:54 am
It is amazing how Makati dumbs down this board into useless agenda revolving around his hatred. He draws is out of others until we have an orgy of useless blame, complain, and backslappings of the dark enjoyments of resentment, hatred, and self-advancement. The board becomes a urinal partitions of gaudy graffiti. He truly represents the life he complains about.
I have become acquainted with a rich assortment of personalities in my life. Makati represents a summation of the worst of them. I have been quiet recently regarding Makati for the betterment of the board. In my fight against his dark personal agenda I myself was starting to become like him. This is what the world has become on so many levels. I decided months ago to ignore him for the most part. On occasions when his excesses become to grievous I feel the need to remind people he is not helping us along he is leading us down the same path we say we are above. Most of us know the corruption I am speaking of. If you embrace the darkness you will lose your way in small lies that eventually become one big lie. When your enemy becomes your friend because his enemy is your enemy you have just entered the land of the absurd. Makati is our board absurdity.
makati1 on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 7:04 am
It appears the 1%er is trying to defend his position while straddling the fence and trying to be one of the masses as he brags about his expensive preps for a non-existent future.
Brainwashing begins at birth in the US and ends at death. You cannot get away from it if you live there but you can ignore it or even laugh at it, once you see behind the curtain. The US MSM Iron Curtain.
Worse yet if you want to inherit daddy’s ill gotten gains at his death, you have to kiss ass and toe the line The poor don’t have that guilt on their shoulders. Nor will the dying middle class soon. The Great Leveling is in motion. Soon there will be no rich or middle class, only survivors.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 7:13 am
“GSR, want to explain how East Indians with Ph.D.’s in computer engineering replace white trash? The reason you need to import those people is because you cannot produce them. The Indians are not replacing anyone – they are filling an intellectual and technical void.”
According to Wikipedia, GDP/capita:
India $6.7k
USA $57.2k
So you would dare to suggest that “US white trash” has to thank India for a 10 times higher GDP/capita, where mysteriously these same Indian geniuses are unable to lift their own GDP above third world levels?
You need a new text writer.
What is really happening is that Americans are cherry picking rare third world talent that should have stayed home, lifting their own nation, if you really would take “development aid” seriously. But American elite is not interested in “development aid”, just in global empire.
“Same as 1400 Nazi scientists did at the end of WWII and lucky for you or else there might be a USSR hammer and sickle flag on the moon and much glory missed, not to mention the thousands of spinoff goodies.”
According to apneaman there is “US white trash” and than there are talented Nazis. Not even I, a died-in-the-wool Europe-firster and non-believer in German WW1/WW2 guilt, would go as far as that.LOL And yes indeed, without the Nazis neither Americans nor Soviets would have come as far as they did with their space programs (warning for ghung: arrogant Germanic coming up):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/S-IC_engines_and_Von_Braun.jpg
But you can’t build an empire encompassing half the world with “white trash”:
https://idiotpantsparty.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/white-trash1.jpg
(That’s not to say that there isn’t indeed a lot of white trash in the US).
“BTW, the US was never the greatest”
The key to US power in the 20th century was oil, the skills of large numbers of European-Americans and a ruthless and smart Zionist political and financial leadership that was and is determined to conquer the world and that exploited European division (keyword Versailles) as well as having a closet alliance with the USSR since 1933, to get the job done.
But that was 1945, now is now.
Today we have a Russia and China that both escaped from the NWO (read: old-school communism; today China is more national-socialist without a Swastika than Marxist communist and Russia is Orthodox again), we have a revanchist European right and we have in America itself a rising identitarian Trumpian right, that is done with globalism and ready to link with Putin and the European right.
If I ran a life insurance company, I would refuse George Soros types as a customer.
Say hello to Jahweh from me, Georgy-boy!
Davy on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 7:25 am
Makati, I am a goat farmer. I am also a 1%er just like you and all the others on this board. We are among the rich 1BIL that are connected to the global system. We unknowingly hate ourselves as we complain about others because we are in reality complaining about ourselves. Humility cuts through hypocrisy and this board has very little of that. You are the worst of us. You are a poster child of the worst of the world.
My preps may be for a non-existent future but at least I am doing something. I am not bragging about a fantasy farm. You have said more than once you will not have internet on your fantasy farm. If you are truly a farmer than why are you here every day morning and evening. If you are truly a farmer you should be out doing what farmers do. You are a fraud and a liar.
Yea, Makati, the great leveling will come soon and old white guys living off social security in cheap high-rises in the middle of one of the most densely populated cities in the world will be the horse meat of collapse. Your days are numbered because of your old age and because of the life you chose.
You represent the hypocrisy and self-advancement of one who cannot accept he is a failure. That is the greatest of deceptions.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 7:31 am
On 2nd thoughts make that “dyed-in-the-wool”, as I am still alive and kicking.lol
Sissyfuss on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 8:26 am
Onlooker, all men ARE created equal by championship swimming sperm. It’s in their development where the gross inequities appear.
onlooker on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 8:32 am
Onlooker, all men ARE created equal by championship swimming sperm. It’s in their development where the gross inequities appear.- haha good point Sissy. I would add that it is in the prejudices and vagaries of man made society and their conventions which categorize men into different levels and tiers that all men are NOT equal
Kenz300 on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 10:30 am
Endless growth, especially endless population growth is unsustainable………….
Climate Change will impact all of us and cause enormous problem for countries and people around the world……… this is the great challenge of our times……. will future generations be doomed to suffer the consequences of our actions….
Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change
Apneaman on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 2:32 pm
Eastern gorilla now critically endangered while giant panda situation improves
Largest living primate joins three other great ape species on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list, but pandas no longer endangered
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/04/eastern-gorilla-critically-endangered-illegal-hunting-iucn-red-list?CMP=twt_gu
I hate Pandas.
Apneaman on Mon, 5th Sep 2016 5:19 pm
Soaring ocean temperature is ‘greatest hidden challenge of our generation’
IUCN report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease
“The ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the extra heat created by human activity. If the same amount of heat that has been buried in the upper 2km of the ocean had gone into the atmosphere, the surface of the Earth would have warmed by a devastating 36C, rather than 1C, over the past century.
At some point, the report says, warming waters could unlock billions of tonnes of frozen methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from the seabed and cook the surface of the planet. This could occur even if emissions are drastically cut, due to the lag time between emitting greenhouse gases and their visible consequences.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/soaring-ocean-temperature-is-greatest-hidden-challenge-of-our-generation?
Kenz300 on Tue, 6th Sep 2016 8:53 am
Too many people demand too many resources….yet the worlds population continues to grow………
The Effects Of Growth: Sprawl & Development – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA33sraoyCk
Watch The Climate Change Ad Fox News Didn’t Want Its Viewers To See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-ad-fox-news_us_57892a37e4b03fc3ee50c207?section=
Climate Change is real….. we will all be impacted by it……
Exxon’s Climate Change Cover-Up Is ‘Unparalleled Evil,’ Says Activist
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/exxon-evil-bill-mckibben_561e7362e4b028dd7ea5f45f?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green§ion=green
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 12:06 am
Video – Dwindling of Arctic’s oldest ice since 1990 – 1 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lachmN5YO4
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 1:07 am
Humans Have Pushed Oceans to Their Absolute Limit, Warns Report
Oceans protected us from worst effects of climate change by absorbing most of humans’ CO2 emissions, report finds, but they can’t take anymore—and will soon release that CO2 back into the air
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/humans-have-pushed-oceans-their-absolute-limit-warns-report
I can hear cloggie and the other retards now
“Oceans have been pushed to their absolute limits before”
“Oceans are always being pushed to their absolute limits”
Apneaman on Wed, 7th Sep 2016 4:56 pm
HumansClimate change blamed for collapse of Hawaiian forest birdshttp://phys.org/news/2016-09-climate-blamed-collapse-hawaiian-forest.html#nRlv
Kenz300 on Fri, 9th Sep 2016 11:28 am
Watch The Climate Change Ad Fox News Didn’t Want Its Viewers To See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-ad-fox-news_us_57892a37e4b03fc3ee50c207?section=
Climate Change is real….. we will all be impacted by it……
The Effects Of Growth: Sprawl & Development – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA33sraoyCk