The Planet's Future: Climate Change 'Will Cause Civilisation to Collapse'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/13-0
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The end is near
Boston Globe
by James Carroll
07/20/09
It used to be that apocalyptic warnings about the approaching end of time came from sign-holding religious nutcases. Now they come from hard [sic] scientists. Most discussion of the threat of global warming is conducted in measured tones, with even dire projections offered with the necessary proviso that the future is uncertain. But as governments fail to act strenuously enough against the villainous carbon emissions, and as the broad public continues in a state of environmental quietude, if not indifference, scientific voices are sharpening the alarm. E.O. Wilson, in his book The Creation, used the word Armageddon to describe the rapid shrinking of Earth’s biodiversity. James Lovelock has foreseen a small remnant of the human population in retreat to the Arctic by the end of this century...
http://tinyurl.com/l865qn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biodiversity
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The end is near
Boston Globe
by James Carroll
07/20/09
It used to be that apocalyptic warnings about the approaching end of time came from sign-holding religious nutcases. Now they come from hard [sic] scientists. Most discussion of the threat of global warming is conducted in measured tones, with even dire projections offered with the necessary proviso that the future is uncertain. But as governments fail to act strenuously enough against the villainous carbon emissions, and as the broad public continues in a state of environmental quietude, if not indifference, scientific voices are sharpening the alarm. E.O. Wilson, in his book The Creation, used the word Armageddon to describe the rapid shrinking of Earth’s biodiversity. James Lovelock has foreseen a small remnant of the human population in retreat to the Arctic by the end of this century...
http://tinyurl.com/l865qn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biodiversity
rudkla - 14. Jul, 10:26
