The Environment Is Going To Hell
This is the litany: Our resources are running out. The air is bad, the water
worse. The planet's specis are dying off-more exactly, we're killing them -at
the staggering rate of 100,000 per year, a figure that works out to almost 2000
species per weak, 300 per day, 10 per hour, another dead species every 6 minutes.
We're trashing the planet, washing away the topsoil, paving over our farmlands,
systematically deforesting our wildernesses, decimating the biota, and
ultimately killing ourselves.
The world is getting progressively poorer, and it's all because of populating,
or more precisely, over-population. There's a finite store of resources on our
pale blue dot, spaceship Earth, our small and fragile tiny planet, and we're
fast apporaching it's ultimate carrying capacity. The limits to growth are
finally upon us, and we're living on borrowed time. The laws of population
growth are inexorable, Unless we act decisively, the final result is written......
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