Apocalypse No!

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.countercurrents.org/us-santos021106.htm

It’s scripted: a tragedy whose end is embedded in its beginnings, an unfolding logic whose conclusion is the inevitable result of its premises.

It’s simple. And obvious. We find ourselves in the midst of the most rapid mass extinction in Earth’s history; we have the power to all-but end life on Earth. We can do so with nuclear weapons, today, in Iran, or simply by turning the ignition switch on our automobiles and gliding over paved surfaces where nothing can live. A little more carbon dioxide, just a little, will tip the scale - unleashing our potential for matching the greatest mass extinction ever – the one called The Great Dying.

Science has given us until roughly 2012 to take radical action to change the course we’re on. In the next six years, they tell us, we will determine the fate of the Earth.

[ElboRuum]

1. Unfortunately...

Due to the rise of the short-term thinkers, the selfish, and the unconcerned to positions of authority and power, we have essentially sealed our own fate.

Science never knows for sure precisely where the tipping point may be, but there is no reason to doubt, even from the empirical evidence of going outside and choking on automobile exhaust and the recent rise in asthma diagnoses, that something is going egregiously wrong with our environment.

Some will never be convinced.