Interesting graphs
http://www.precaution.org/lib/speth_1-sided.fnl.pdf
Graphs looking at changes over time. They are from this book: THE BRIDGE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability By James Gustave Speth Apr. 24, 2008 Between Two Worlds http://www.precaution.org/lib/speth_1-sided.fnl.pdf The remarkable charts that introduce this book (link above) reveal the story of humanity's impact on the natural earth.[1] The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth -- the Great Collision. And like the crash of an asteroid, the damage is enormous. For all the material blessings economic progress has provided, for all the disease and destitution avoided, for all the glories that shine in the best of our civilization, the costs to the natural world, the costs to the glories of nature, have been huge and must be counted in the balance as tragic loss. Half the world's tropical and temperate forests are now gone.[2] The rate of deforestation in the tropics continues at about an acre a second.[3] About half the wetlands and a third of the mangroves are gone.[4] An estimated 90 percent of the large predator fish are gone, and 75 percent of marine fisheries are now overfished or fished to capacity.[5] Twenty percent of the corals are gone, and another 20 percent severely threatened.[6] Species are disappearing at rates about a thousand times faster than normal.[7] The planet has not seen such a spasm of extinction in sixty-five million years, since the dinosaurs disappeared.[8] Over half the agricultural land in drier regions suffers from some degree of deterioration and desertification.[9] Persistent toxic chemicals can now be found by the dozens in essentially each and every one of us.[10] Human impacts are now large relative to natural systems. The earth's stratospheric ozone layer was severely depleted before the change was discovered. Human activities have pushed atmospheric carbon dioxide up by more than a third and have started in earnest the dangerous process of warming the planet and disrupting climate. Everywhere earth's ice fields are melting.[11] Industrial processes are fixing nitrogen, making it biologically active, at a rate equal to nature's; one result is the development of more than two hundred dead zones in the oceans due to overfertilization.[12] Human actions already consume or destroy each year about 40 percent of nature's photosynthetic output, leaving too little for other species.[13] Freshwater withdrawals doubled globally between 1960 and 2000, and are now over half of accessible runoff.[14] The following rivers no longer reach the oceans in the dry season: the Colorado, Yellow, Ganges, and Nile, among others.[15] Societies are now traveling together in the midst of this unfolding calamity down a path that links two worlds. Behind is the world we have lost, ahead the world we are making. It is difficult to appreciate the abundance of wild nature in the world we have lost. In America we can think of the pre-Columbian world of 1491, of Lewis and Clark, and of John James Audubon. It is a world where nature is large and we are not. It is a world of majestic old- growth forests stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, of oceans brimming with fish, of clear skies literally darkened by passing flocks of birds. As William MacLeish notes in The Day before America, in 1602 an Englishman wrote in his journal that the fish schooled so thickly he thought their backs were the sea bottom. Bison once roamed east to Florida. There were jaguars in the Southeast, grizzly bear in the Midwest, and wolves, elk and mountain lions in New England.[16] |
I'm coloring them at lunch time.
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That'll keep you slim.
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WOW! All those graphs....repeating the same thing as the very first one.
The population is growing--therefore use of water has increased (wow!) etc. So the solution is obvious--we need several billion volunteers to "take one for the globe". All volunteers please kill themselves in the next 3 weeks so that the rest of us can get on with life. |
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I have a list. Begins with people in California waiting for spaceships to pick them up. Ends with nucking futs Islamist terrorists.
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The problem, Bot, is not the right people will volunteer, and (unfortunately) you do not have the authority to command them.
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One of my concerns has been the artificial extension of lives that would have naturally been lost due to genetic defects. Now these 'saved' people are passing along the same defects, essentially weakening the gene pool, which is just the opposite of natural selection.
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