More Scientists Say Earth Is On The Verge Of Collapse
8th June 2012
Sky falling. Film at 11.
The author of this article has degrees in philosophy and journalism, and in his bio photo looks like Meathead from All in the Family, so of course he’s qualified to report on environmental issues.
Based on a review of scientific theories, ecosystem modeling and fossils, the researchers concluded that accelerating loss of biodiversity, extreme climate fluctuations and a radically changing total energy budget are precursors to reaching a planetary tipping point that would be followed by an irreversible collapse of our planet’s ecosystems.
In other words, very few actual facts, and a lot of tendentious speculation. How convincing. All of the evidence cited is from the Usual Suspects like the U.N. and the World Wildlife Fund, ‘progressive’ groups united behind the concept that human beings suck and we need to cancel the industrial revolution and live in neolithic poverty or Mother Gaia will be peeved.
June 8th, 2012 at 06:22
As George Carlin once put it: “Save the earth? What hubris! What unmitigated arrogance! The earth will get by just fine; it’s people who are fucked!”
June 8th, 2012 at 09:05
Just for the slow among us, I’ll spell it out: Environmentalists (at least the majority of them) are not trying to ‘save the planet’ for altruistic reasons; they’re trying to ‘save the planet’ because by doing so we save US. The planet has weathered many a mass extinction and come through without a hitch. WE may not be so lucky as to ‘make the cut’ for any future one.
June 8th, 2012 at 22:32
For the even slower: Those so-called environmentalists are more comparable to those religious wackos that keep announcing dates for the Rapture than to actual scientists. Humans didn’t survive the broad spectrum of climates on the Earth to be wiped out by a 2 degree shift in temperature. They will never run out of crises to wail over – esp. if they can get donations or research funding in the process.