[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')umanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, and needs a technological revolution greater – and faster – than the industrial revolution to avoid “a major planetary catastrophe,” according to a new United Nations report.

[dolanbaker]

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[cualcrees]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')umanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth

[eXpat]

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[AgentR11]

Who would want to pay UN dues if they admit we're done.

[AgentR11]

Gas, I understand that the "UN will take over the world" thing is part of the conservative narrative, but I think we answered that pretty forcefully when we refused to ratify Kyoto as well as the ICC. In addition, we have a permanent veto over anything the UN might seek to *DO* without our consent. For the US, its a great place to let powerless nations babble endlessly and make themselves feel heard. That's not a horrible thing.

The only power they have in the US is to avoid paying parking tickets.
I think I can live with that.

[jedrider]

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Gas

[Fishman]

Sorry Gas, I have to agree with Pstarr. The UN is no military threat to the US, they're not a military threat even when they deploy. They might be an administrative/ governmental threat to the US. Well they might have been in the past, maybe even the first year of the Obama administration. But he has inadvertantly made sure that will not happen anytime soon. Their biggest power over the US was control of global warming, as as Agent states, canning Kyoto (Democratic Senate at that) negates any power. And the global warming faith seems in decline at present.

[Fishman]

As my post alludes, we now know clearly that "liberal academics" can't run a government. I like to look at the bright side Gas, I'm not sure who runs the world, but I get to laugh at the "liberal academics and swarthy 3rd-Worlders " when they try.

[Serial_Worrier]

It's really doom for 3rd world countries tapped out on their environments via overpopulation.

[Lore]

Kind of amusing that the UN is sounding like many of the posters on here. Not much of a revelation to those who look a little farther then the next corporate quarter.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '�')��Technological transformation, greater in scale and achievable within a much shorter time frame than the first industrial revolution, is required,” it says. “The necessary set of new technologies must enable today’s poor to attain decent living standards, while reducing emissions and waste and ending the unrestrained drawdown of the Earth’s non-renewable resources.”